On June 30, Families USA, Move On, the ACLU, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Domestic Workers Alliance and other allies are partnering for a rally in Washington, D.C., and around the country to tell the administration … Continued
From Amnesty International USA (http://www.amnestyusa.org): This past week has been tough. We’ve seen the cruelty of the administration towards families seeking asylum in the US. Children are taken from their parents at the border and put into government-run shelters, often … Continued
Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/06/22/code-red-fatal-consequences-dangerously-substandard-medical-care-immigration-detention/#.WzJQ41VKgdU By David Elliot June 22, 2018 Editor’s note: CHN Intern Page Brigham, a rising senior at Allegheny College, contributed to this blog post. Katherine Bonilla will not get to see her father again. Arrested by ICE on his … Continued
From Common Cause (http://www.commoncause.org): We need a fair, accurate Census in 2020 — but the administration is attempting to rig it and leave many of our communities undercounted. Submit a comment now to fight back at https://actionnetwork.org/letters/submit-your-comment-no-citizenship-question-on-2020-census. We need your … Continued
From the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (http://www.interfaithimmigration.org): Today, the House of Representatives will consider H.R.6136, the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act, an anti-immigrant, anti-family bill that would do nothing to stop family separation. Instead, it would tie dreamer protections with harmful immigration … Continued
A RESOLUTION Affirming that the imprisonment and prolonged detention of asylum-seeking children and families is inhumane and counter to international law, and calling on Governor Wolf and the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services to issue an emergency removal order and … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (http://www.paimmigrant.org): June 21, 2018 Yesterday the President announced he is ending the policy of separating families at the border and instead wants to detain families together indefinitely. This is a cruel response to the … Continued
Church World Service urges the administration to terminate immoral policies that harm families Washington, D.C.— Church World Service today condemned the administration’s executive order to mandate that immigrant families be held in family detention. Instead of terminating the administration’s cruel … Continued
Auburn Seminary is working across faith traditions and movements to help galvanize a response to the horrifying conditions that continue at our borders. We have compiled an expanding list of what you can do to end family separation, incarceration and … Continued
Posted at http://www.umc.org/church-charges-brought-against-sessions.static.html By Sam Hodges June 18, 2018 | UMNS More than 600 United Methodist clergy and laity say they are bringing church law charges against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a fellow United Methodist, over a zero tolerance … Continued