What: Protest at ICE Headquarters on 4 week anniversary of death of detained Cameroonian When: TODAY, Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 5:30PM Where: ICE Headquarters, 500 12th St., SW, Washington, D.C. Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2192305967737276/?notif_t=plan_user_associated¬if_id=1572288061262209 Who: (Washington, D.C. 10/29/19) – On Tuesday, October 29th, several organizations led by the Cameroon American Council will gather outside […]
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Cameroon American Council, CISPES DC, Justice for Muslims Collective, CASA, Interfaith Immigration Coalition, Church World Service, and others to protest ICE and demand answers on mysterious death of detained Cameroonian immigrant
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Snapshot on Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach
Borders are an opportunity for all of us to be transformed Washington, DC – This is the latest in a series of “snapshots” on the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) and its member organizations. Who They Are: The Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach (CCAO) is the US-based advocacy office for the Missionary Society of St. […]
Trump Administration Undercuts Asylum, Again, With “Prompt Asylum Claim Review”
To Reject Refugees is to Miss Christ’s Message of Love for One Another, Says IIC’s Adams Washington, DC – The Washington Post is reporting that, once again, the Trump administration is putting more roadblocks into the asylum process, starting with a pilot program in El Paso to fast-track asylum screenings and make it more difficult […]
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Sixteen Republican House Members Urge Trump Administration to Uphold Refugee Protections
CO, FL, GA, IN, MI, NJ, NY, OH, PA, UT, and WA Represented Washington, DC – In response to the Trump administration’s evisceration of the U.S. refugee resettlement program, Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) and sixteen other Republican Members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging the administration to “maintain the […]
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Congress Should Provide Oversight Of, Not Cover For, Trump Administration
In Immigration Hearings, Two Vastly Different Approaches on Display Washington, DC – What a difference a quarter of a mile makes. While the House of Representatives is engaging in oversight of the administration’s many cruel, inhumane, and often illogical immigration priorities, just across the Hill the Senate seems to be engaged in administrative apologetics. Even […]
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HIAS Airport Action and Anne C. Richard: Refugees Are Worth It
Washington, DC – “That’s why I got arrested yesterday. Because the refugee resettlement program is worth it.” These are the words of Anne C. Richard, the former Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration who became an unlikely but powerful protester yesterday. She and seventeen other leaders were arrested in a compelling action […]
Get to Know Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)
Still fighting to ensure that all people—including immigrants who are targeted and terrorized by the current administration—are treated with the dignity and respect that they deserve Washington, DC – This is the fifth in a series of “snapshots” on the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) and its member organizations. Who They Are: The Unitarian Universalist Service […]
Get to Know Church World Service (CWS)
“Just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.” Washington, DC – This is the fourth in a series of “snapshots” on the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) and its member organizations. Who They Are: Church World Service (CWS) was born in […]
IIC’s Adams Responds to Trump Remarks About Somali Refugees
“As people of faith we are called to radical, inclusive, extravagant love for our neighbor; and that’s what the refugee resettlement program means to us” Washington, DC – At a rally in Minnesota last night, President Trump denigrated refugees from Somalia and bragged about slashing the refugee resettlement program by 85%. He also attacked Rep. […]
On Immigration, The Hour Demands More From Us
NCJW CEO Sheila Katz in The Forward, Just Ahead of Yom Kippur Washington, DC – In a new op-ed in The Forward, National Council on Jewish Women’s CEO, Sheila Katz, writes that “Yom Kippur is a time for the accounting of the soul—to own how we have been complacent, complicit, taken the easy way out.” […]
