Listen to a recording of the press call here Silver Spring, MD – Last Thursday, ICE agents knowingly violated the agency’s Sensitive Locations policy and lied to Binsar Siahaan, an Indonesian asylum-seeker and six-year member of the Glenmont United Methodist Church, in order to arrest him and carry out his […]
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“It was like they’re experimenting with our bodies” – so said a woman detained at Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), recalling friends who were forced to undergo hysterectomies there.
A ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals puts the futures of people with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) back in limbo, at the whims of an administration that has made no secret about its desire to deport them.
“This is a dark day,” said Elissa Diaz, Policy Associate with Church World Service and Chair of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition.
It was another brutal August, but people of faith continued to show up and organize for justice for all. Black lives, immigrants, refugees. Everyone.
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.