Our organizations stand behind the hundreds of state and local policies protecting localities from intrusive collusion, monitoring, and policing by federal immigration authorities.
These policies emerged after years of reasonable discussion and debate amongst community groups, local officials, and police and sheriff departments, as hundreds of cities, towns and states grappled with the harm of deportation programs, like the failed Secure Communities (S-Comm) now renamed the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP). Our communities rightly concluded that local pro-immigrant policies not only protect public safety and constitutional rights—they are integral to fostering diverse and thriving communities.
The scapegoating of immigrant communities and attacks on local pro-immigrant policies and the officials who enacted them reflects a hardening racism and xenophobia in American politics that we must eliminate, not foster. These attacks may score some political points in the short-term but strike against good governance and inclusive democracy.
We call on officials to stand up for human and civil rights and reject ineffective and punitive measures against immigrants, including PEP, a program that dangerously increases federal entanglement with local police. Officials should support the difficult but necessary work of examining and addressing the root causes of violence in our communities.
We call on local, state, and federal officials to work with us to hear solutions about what community safety and welfare really mean for us – beyond more policing, incarceration, and deportation.
Visit our Take Action page for more info on how you can help. Click here to join the growing number of organizations listed below in support of policies that protect immigrants and promote community safety.
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American Civil Liberties Union
American Friends Service Committee
Anti-Defamation League
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
ASISTA
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
Border Network for Human Rights
Casa Esperanza
Center for Popular Democracy
Detention Watch Network
Disciples Refugee & Immigration Ministries
Dream Action Coalition
Drug Policy Alliance
Franciscan Action Network
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Grassroots Leadership
Immigrant Defense Project
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Justice Strategies
Latino Policy Forum
National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities ( NALACC )
National Center for Transgender Equality
National Day Laborer Organizing Network
National Immigrant Justice Center
National Immigration Law Center
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
National Lawyers Guild
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
NETWORK
New Sanctuary Movement
Not1More
NQAPIA: National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
PICO National Network
The Praxis Project
Southern Poverty Law Center
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
Transgender Law Center
United We Dream
We Belong Together
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Alaska
Alaska Institute for Justice
Arizona
Coalicion de Derechos Humanos
PUENTE
C
California
Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
Asian Law Alliance
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
California Immigrant Policy Center
California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
Central American Resource Center-LA (CARECEN-LA)
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
Comite VIDA
Dolores Street Community Services
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist
Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement
Filipino Advocates for Justice
Fools Mission
Fresno Immigrant Youth in Action
California Continued
Immigrant Justice Team Emerson UU Church
Immigration Center for Women and Children
Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
Nicaragua Center for Community Action
Palabra
Pangea Legal Services
Reedley Social Services. Inc.
Sacred Heart Community Service
Salvadoran American National Network (SANN)
San Francisco Public Defender
Silicon Valley De-Bug
SIREN, Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network
Social Justice Collaborative
Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic (for identification purposes only)
Street Level Health Project
Transforming Immigrant Communities through Education (TICE)
Colorado
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
Criminal/Immigration Defense Clinic at Colorado Law (for identification purposes only)
Together Colorado
Connecticut
Unidad Latina en Acción
D-F
District of Columbia
CAIR Coalition
Florida
Farmworker Association of Florida
Florida Immigrant Coalition
Friends of Broward Detainees
University of Miami School of Law, Immigration Clinic
WeCount!
G-I
Georgia
Coalición de Lideres Latinos-CLILA
Georgia Detention Watch
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights
GaNot1More Coalition
Southeast Immigrant Rights Network
SONG / Southerners On New Ground
Illinois
Cobb Immigrant Alliance
Korean American Resource and Cultural Center
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Interfaith Leadership Project
Northwest Side Housing Center
P.E.A.C.E
Association of Latino/as Motivating Action (ALMA)
Iowa
American Friends Service Committee- Iowa
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Latina Leadership Initiative of Greater Des Moines
L.U.N.A.
Trinity United Methodist Church
K-L
Kansas
Immigrant Justice Advocacy Movement
Sunflower Community Action
Louisiana
New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice
M
Maryland
CASA de Maryland
Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity
Massachusetts
Chelsea Collaborative
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
Michigan
Michigan United
Minnesota
Conversations with Friends
De Leon & Nestor, LLC
Jewish Community Action
Mississippi
MIRA Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance
Missouri
National Lawyers Guild – St. Louis Chapter
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New Jersey
Reformed Church of Highland Park, NJ
New Mexico
El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos
Enlace Comunitario
La Plaza de Encuentro Gathering Place
New Mexico Faith Coalition for Immigrant Justice
New York
Brooklyn Defender Services
Families for Freedom
Immigration Justice Clinic, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Make the Road
Neighborhood Defenders Services of Harlem
New Sanctuary Coalition
New York City Anti-Violence Project
SEIU 32BJ
UnLocal, Inc.
North Carolina
FaithAction International House
North Carolina Justice Center
Southern Coalition for Social Justice
O-P
Ohio
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality
Oregon
Causa Oregon
Jobs with Justice – Portland
Pennsylvania
New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia
Juntos
T-U
Tennessee
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
Texas
American Gateways
Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition
Austin Jewish Voice for Peace
RAICES
Refugio del Rio Grande
Texas Organizing Project
Utah
Comunidades Unidas
V-W
Virginia
Dreamers of Virginia
Legal Aid Justice Center
Washington
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
OneAmerica
Puentes: Advocacy, Counseling & Education
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Casa Latina
Wisconsin
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