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.
The IIC calls on the Administration to use all its resources, contacts, and the
political capital necessary to ensure that Congress enacts legislation:
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
Version– with Recommendations to the Administration
Version– with Recommendations to Congress and Signatures
Sign On Here to our Letter asking Congress for Compassionate Immigration Reform
Comprehensive immigration reform should accomplish the following:
- Uphold family unity as a priority of all immigration policies
- Create a process for undocumented immigrants to earn their legal status and eventual citizenship
- Protect all workers and provide efficient channels of entry for new migrant workers
- Facilitate immigrant integration
- Restore due process protections and reform detention policies
- Align the enforcement of immigration laws with humanitarian values
Click here to learn more about these principles.
