On July 25, Judge Tigar blocked the Biden administration’s asylum regulation, finding it clearly unlawful. faith organizations welcomed the ruling. Advocates continue to defend the right of anyone seeking protection to make that request, no matter where or how they enter the U.S., and to ensure that all have equal access to due process.
Press Releases
As we approach World Refugee Day on June 20th, national faith-based organizations are calling on the U.S. government and our communities to remember our moral and legal commitments to people forced to leave their homelands.
National faith organizations from the Interfaith Immigration Coalition are celebrating the lifting of Title 42 after several years of it being misused under a false pretense of public health from both the Trump and Biden administrations; wherein the clear objective of this arcane health code was to expel asylum seekers in an unprecedented and unjust way.
130 faith-based organizations delivered a letter to the White House urging the Biden administration to halt its plans to reinstate family detention.
LIRS and IIC have launched a new faith-based public comment campaign to mobilize opposition to the Biden administration’s proposed asylum ban.