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  • Interfaith Immigration Coalition Announces Fiscal Year 2025 Funding Priorities

    May 1, 2024
    Interfaith Immigration Coalition Announces Fiscal Year 2025 Funding Priorities
    Washington, DC – Today, members of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC), made up of more than fifty national faith-based organizations with a shared interest in just immigration policies, released immigration priorities for the Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations cycle. The priorities urge Congress to robustly fund programs that support safety and dignity for asylum seekers, establish ...
  • 375+ Faith Leaders & Organizations Urge Biden to Protect Asylum

    December 12, 2023
    375+ Faith Leaders & Organizations Urge Biden to Protect Asylum
    Washington, DC – As the fate of the U.S. asylum system hangs in the balance, 235 religious leaders and 143 national, state, and local faith-based organizations have sent a letter to the White House urging the Biden administration to reject the extreme, anti-immigrant proposals that are being considered as part of a supplemental aid package. Lea ...
  • Faith Groups Urge Congress to Protect Asylum

    November 30, 2023
    Faith Groups Urge Congress to Protect Asylum
    Washington, DC – As a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators negotiates President Biden’s supplemental funding request this week, faith groups are continuing to urge lawmakers to safeguard critical asylum protections. Senators are holding up funding for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan by demanding extreme, lasting changes to immigration policy in the supplemental funding bill. This includes ...
  • Faith Groups Respond to Disappointing Immigration Provisions in FY2023 Omnibus Spending Bill

    December 21, 2022
    Faith Groups Respond to Disappointing Immigration Provisions in FY2023 Omnibus Spending Bill
    WASHINGTON, DC — This week, Senate leadership released the legislative text of the fiscal year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill, which outlines the federal government’s spending for the coming year. Though the bill package includes increased funding for critical healthcare programs and coverage, faith organizations and directly-impacted advocacy groups are greatly disappointed that it excludes many ...
  • People of Faith Celebrate Senate Passage of Inflation Reduction Act Without Any Anti-Immigrant Amendments

    August 8, 2022
    People of Faith Celebrate Senate Passage of Inflation Reduction Act Without Any Anti-Immigrant Amendments
    Washington, DC – Over the weekend, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act without any anti-immigrant amendments, in no small part due to the united voice of directly impacted individuals, human rights groups, faith communities, and advocates across the country. Though far from perfect, the Inflation Reduction Act includes critical measures to improve healthcare access, ...
  • Faith Groups to Senators: Reject Anti-Immigrant Amendments in Inflation Reduction Act

    August 3, 2022
    Faith Groups to Senators: Reject Anti-Immigrant Amendments in Inflation Reduction Act
    Washington, DC – For over two weeks, interfaith partners and human rights advocates joined together for “Heal Not Harm” advocacy days to demand Congress restore access to asylum. By driving daily calls to congressional offices, members and constituents of over 25 faith-based and immigrant rights organizations echoed asylum seekers’ demands to put an end to ...
  • Over 450 Faith Leaders & Organizations Urge Congress to Right the Wrongs of Family Separation

    August 1, 2022
    Over 450 Faith Leaders & Organizations Urge Congress to Right the Wrongs of Family Separation
    Washington, DC – Today, nearly 340 faith leaders and people of faith, and 114 faith organizations—including 12 member organizations of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition—delivered a letter to Congress urging them to do more to reverse the harms caused by family separation. Under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) separated over 5,500 migrant ...
  • Summer Advocacy Action List

    August 13, 2021
    Summer Advocacy Action List
    Congress has an historic opportunity to pass citizenship for immigrants through the congressional budget reconciliation process this year. On August 11, we celebrated an important step that the Senate passed a budget resolution that includes a path to citizenship. We must keep up the momentum! While Congress is in recess and into September, faith communities ...
  • Congress Must “Show Up For Immigrant Justice, So Each Person Can Find Welcome and Home”

    August 11, 2021
    Congress Must “Show Up For Immigrant Justice, So Each Person Can Find Welcome and Home”
    WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate passed a budget resolution that advanced many economic and other urgent needs. Included in the package was a commitment to creating a path to citizenship for certain immigrants in the United States.  People of faith from Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, ...
  • First 100+ Days of Biden-Harris Administration

    January 13, 2021
    First 100+ Days of Biden-Harris Administration
    IIC Immigration Policy Priorities The Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) is composed of over 55 international and national faith-based organizations, united in a commitment to fair and humane immigration policies that reflect our call to welcome the stranger and protect human dignity. Coalition members and grassroots networks serve migrants abroad, at the U.S./Mexico border, and throughout the ...
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