Civic Engagement

Washington, DC – Yesterday, 109 organizations, including multiple Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) members, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging him to review country conditions and designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Special Student Relief (SSR) for Mali. Following the lead of African immigrant and Black-led community organizations, the ...

Washington, DC – Ten years ago today marked the first day that thousands of young immigrants were able to submit their first applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status. Due to the relentless advocacy of immigrant youth, the DACA program was created to offer employment authorization and protection from deportation for undocumented ...

Washington, DC – Yesterday, a bipartisan group of Representatives introduced the Afghan Adjustment Act—just days after its identical companion bill was introduced in the Senate. The bicameral, bipartisan legislation creates a path to citizenship for tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees currently in the United States that were resettled into American communities after the U.S. ...

Washington, DC – The Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) joins their partner, Jews and Muslims and Allies Acting Together (JAMAAT), in lamenting the recent murders of three Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a span of just 10 days. Those killed were Aftab Hussein, Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, and Nayeem Hossain, who had just become a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington, DC – This week, the Interfaith Immigration Coalition, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Side With Love (an initiative of the Unitarian Universalist Association), and the #WelcomeWithDignity campaign hosted a virtual event, “Heal Not Harm: Restore Asylum Now!” to kick off two weeks of call-in days to Congress to defend the right to seek asylum and ...

Did you know that the pandemic is still being used as justification for refusing, detaining, and expelling asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border? Under Title 42, almost all asylum-seeking families and individuals are being denied their human and legal right to seek safety. Many migrants have faced violence and even lost their lives due to this ...

Washington, DC –  Texas Governor Greg Abbott today signed an executive order falsely declaring an ‘invasion’ and calling on the Texas National Guard and law enforcement officials to unlawfully return people seeking asylum and other migrants to border ports of entry. This announcement comes less than two weeks after 53 immigrant lives were lost in ...