Asylum

Washington, DC – While the Trump administration continues its all-out assault on the legal right to request asylum, lawyers, human rights groups, and faith-based organizations have mounted a formidable defense.  This week alone, over 400 constituents from forty-five states and the District of Columbia are participating in virtual legislative visits with 185 congressional offices, calling on ...

Washington, DC – What do foreign students in the United States on visas, and people fleeing violence and seeking safety on U.S. soil have in common? They are both the subject of Trump administration attacks this week.  The latest is another all-out assault on “asylum,” the legal right enshrined in U.S. and international law to NOT ...

Join us in advocating for restoring life-saving asylum protections and defunding harmful asylum policies. Our goal is to ensure that Members of Congress are educated about the administration’s systematic attacks on the asylum system that has resulted in a complex web of harm against asylum seekers. As the administration wrongfully and immorally uses the COVID-19 ...

The Trump administration proposed yet another rule to gut the U.S. asylum system, a sweeping effort in a long line of restrictions and bans. The goal is to end asylum in the United States administratively, without an act of Congress, and keep people fleeing violence and murder in harm’s way. The public had until July ...

Washington, DC – Today, 339 faith-based organizations and 1,356 faith leaders from all fifty states, plus DC, are issuing an open letter to policymakers at all levels, demanding an end to anti-immigrant policies put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter comes on the same day that a proposed rule to completely gut the ...

“More People Will Die” Washington, DC – Yesterday the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security submitted a notice of proposed rulemaking to the Federal Register that proves these governmental bodies stand for neither justice nor safety.  The proposed rule further guts the U.S. legal system of asylum and other protections for people who are fleeing violence and ...

On June 3, the IIC held a webinar on detention, asylum, and enforcement issues during the COVID-19 pandemic with: Sharon Stanley-Rea, Director, Disciples Refugee & Immigration Ministries (RIM) Guerline Jozef, President of Haitian Bridge Alliance Chiqui Sanchez Kennedy, Immigration Legal Services Director, YMCA International Services Pedro Rios, Director of the U.S.-Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee Hillary Kipnis, Migrant ...

Washington, DC – (TW: Abuse of children) The headlines are shocking enough: “More Than 900 Children Have Been Expelled Under a Pandemic Border Policy” – The New York Times “The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus” – ProPublica and Texas Tribune “Under Trump policy, U.S. plays custody keep-away with migrant children”- Los Angeles Times “ICE ...

Washington, DC – The New York Times reports that the Trump administration plans to extend its border closure indefinitely, citing the coronavirus pandemic. The ban would keep regions in the north and south of the United States, whose economies rely on the dynamic flow of goods and people across borders, on lock down for the ...

Washington, DC –  Tomorrow, House Democrats are holding a virtual roundtable on ICE’s deadly “response” to the COVID-19 pandemic. The forum will be live streamed at 12:30pm EST. Following the massive outbreaks of coronavirus in numerous ICE facilities across the nation, and the tragic deaths of Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia and Oscar Lopez Acosta, an Ohio ...