It was another brutal August, but people of faith continued to show up and organize for justice for all. Black lives, immigrants, refugees. Everyone.
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471 religious leaders and 135 faith-based organizations sent a letter to President Trump calling for the resettlement of 95,000 refugees in the United States in FY 2021.
The Trump administration’s one-year ban on work permits for asylum-seekers is cruelty in the extreme. The depths to which this administration would sink in order to torture and reject people who have already been through so much are truly limitless.
For years, the Krome immigration jail in Miami has been serving inedible food to Muslim people held there, including pork-based meals in violation of their religious beliefs.
U.S. border militarization expanded under both Republican and Democratic administrations, and created the conditions that caused so many deaths of people seeking a better life.