The Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC), a coalition of 35 national faith-based organizations, calls on the Obama Administration to seize the moment to champion legislative reform of our broken immigration system, and to promote immigrant integration and reduce harmful enforcement practices through administrative actions. For more than a decade, the IIC has been working with hundreds of congregations, service providers, and faith leaders across the country to educate communities, oppose anti-immigrant legislation, and work toward humane immigration reform. In the past four years alone, the IIC network has organized more than a thousand prayer vigils, community forums, and rallies across the country in support of immigrants’ rights. As a diverse coalition, we see this as an opportunity to raise a wide array of concerns and issues that should be considered as the President and Congress move forward with fixing our nation’s broken immigration system.
CHAMPION LEGISLATIVE PRINCIPLES
- Address the Causes of Migration
- Create a Process for Undocumented Immigrants to Earn Citizenship
- Keep Families Together
- Enact the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act
- Protect Workers’ Rights, Including Agricultural Workers
- Place Humanitarian Values at the Center of Enforcement Policies
- Protect Refugees and Migrant Survivors of Violence
PROMOTE COMMUNITY SAFETY, IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION AND FAMILY UNITY THROUGH
- End Secure Communities and 287(g) Agreements
- Increase Opposition to Anti-Immigrant State Policies
- Utilize Prosecutorial Discretion and Restore Due Process
- Expand Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
- Finalize the Proposed Rule on Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers
- Reform Immigration Detention and Prioritize Alternatives to Detention
- Prioritize Funding to Promote Immigrant Integration
