Press Releases

Washington D.C. – This June 19 marked the second year that Juneteenth has been celebrated as an official federal holiday in the United States. Juneteenth National Independence Day commemorates the day in 1865 when the news of the end of slavery reached enslaved Black people in the South—over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was ...

Washington, DC – Today people of faith recognize the ten year anniversary of the creation of the DACA program, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals—a hard-fought victory secured by immigrant youth. While DACA has been an important protection for over 800,000 young people, we know it has just been a band-aid: a small, short-term solution ...

Washington D.C. – Yesterday, ahead of World Refugee Day (June 20), directly-impacted leaders, faith leaders, and advocates gathered to discuss the urgent need to restore welcome for all. Over the past ten years, the global refugee population has more than doubled—now exceeding 84 million—but the U.S.’ ability to welcome refugees, asylum seekers, and others seeking ...

Washington, DC – While lawmakers in Washington, DC consider plans to vote on anti-asylum legislation that would make it difficult to rescind Title 42, Black asylum seekers and advocacy groups at the border held a funeral last week for two Haitian migrants who lost their lives in Tijuana after being blocked from requesting asylum under ...

Washington, DC – Yesterday, people of faith joined border organizations and directly-impacted groups in lamenting the day that was to mark the end of the asylum-blocking Title 42 expulsion policy. Instead, May 23rd was another day of a broken and harmful asylum system following a federal judge’s ruling on Friday that blocked the Biden administration ...

Washington, D.C—Today, the Cameroon Advocacy Network and TPS-DED-Administrative Advocacy Coalition delivered a letter to the White House from 144 state, local, and national immigrant, labor, faith, civil rights, and legal organizations regarding racial inequity in the delay and grant of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for countries of predominantly Black and Brown immigrants. Multiple Interfaith ...

Washington, DC – Today, 103 faith-based organizations and 215 faith leaders sent a letter to Congress urging them to uphold U.S. asylum laws and strongly reject any anti-asylum measures. Earlier this month, people of faith joined immigrant-led groups in welcoming the Biden administration’s plans to end the inhumane Title 42 policy by May 23rd, and ...

Washington, DC – Today the Biden administration announced it will be granting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to immigrants from Cameroon currently in the United States. Having followed the lead of directly impacted groups including Cameroon Advocacy Network, UndocuBlack Network, Haitian Bridge Alliance, and others, member organizations of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition welcome this long-awaited news ...

Washington, DC — Dozens of groups based in the District of Columbia, which is located in Piscataway Nation, expressed their solidarity and steadfast support to the migrants and asylum seekers that were bussed to the nation’s capital by Governor Greg Abbott of Texas. When Governor Abbott announced his plan to send people seeking asylum and ...

Washington, DC — The #WelcomeWithDignity campaign held a press call with faith leaders welcoming the Biden administration’s first step towards restoring asylum by ending Title 42.  Undeterred by some lawmakers’ attempts to stop President Biden from ending the policy, the faith leaders expressed their readiness to work with the federal government to welcome asylum seekers ...