You can take one quick action to push back on two key issues impacting our immigrant and refugee families right now by signing this letter to Congressional leaders. Congress is making key decisions in the next few weeks about the … Continued
From the Project on Government Oversight (http://www.pogo.org/): September 25, 2018 Open the Government and the Project On Government Oversight have obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that provide new insights into internal decision-making behind the separation of thousands … Continued
From the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (http://www.interfaithimmigration.org): Join the National Call-in Day on Wednesday, September 26th to call on Congress to protect families and stop fueling unjust detention, deportation, and border policies. While the national crisis of family separation and harmful immigration enforcement … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): With Hurricane Florence on our doorstep, we’ve learned that the administration has diverted $10 million from FEMA ‘response and recovery’ to spend on ICE incarceration. [1] This diversion of precious funding from disaster relief in order … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): Right now, ICE is asking Congress for additional funding for family incarceration and immigration detention. It is critical for the faith community to make their voices heard and urge Congress to reject any proposal that fuels family … Continued
From Juntos (http://vamosjuntos.org/): Join Us On August 15th To Demand Liberty & Justice For All! The attacks being committed against our immigrant community by the administration are nothing new. For years, ICE and the police have terrorized, separated, and incarcerated … Continued
Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/08/02/zero-tolerance-border-disaster-families/#.W2NGcdVKgdU By Richelle Friedman August 2, 2018 At Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Oversight of Immigration Enforcement and Family Reunification Efforts,” Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) minced no words. He said, “If families and children are going to be kept in … Continued
From Amnesty International USA (http://www.amnestyusa.org): Carlos was locked up at the age of three. His crime? Being carried across the border in his Mom’s arms, running from threats at gunpoint. Support from Amnesty activists — passionate people like you — … Continued
The Moral Cost of the Immigration Crisis By Richard Primus Sometime in 1940, an 11-year-old refugee named Yudita Nisse reached the United States on a boat from Japan. Her Latvian-Jewish family had fled Nazi Germany east across the Soviet Union; the trip to … Continued
CWS decries family separation and incarceration, reaffirms dignity of all seeking asylum Washington, D.C. – In light of the government’s failure to reunite separated immigrant children with their families by today’s court-ordered deadline, Rev. John L. McCullough, President and CEO of … Continued