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TAKE 5 – Support Bipartisan Bill to Give Unaccompanied Minor Children a Chance in Immigration Court

AdvocacyBy Joan PlotnickDecember 4, 2023

Seven-year-old Chanel and her sister Adriana, age 10, both unaccompanied minors traveling alone from Honduras, sit among other asylum-seeking children as they await to be transported to a U.S. border…

URGENT ACTION NEEDED TODAY: Bills Criminalizing Immigrants—and Those Who Help Them—Are Up for a Vote.

AdvocacyBy Joan PlotnickOctober 23, 2023

SB 11 would make improper entry into Texas a criminal offense, violating migrants’ right to asylum by arresting them rather than allowing federal immigration authorities to process them. This would…

TELL CONGRESS: FUND REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES IN TEXAS TO HELP NEWCOMERS

AdvocacyBy Joan PlotnickOctober 11, 2023

Photo by Sgt. Kyle Larsen, U.S. Army Reserve, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Even as a small group of extremists in the House of Representatives holds federal funding hostage, we…

Thank Reps. Castro and Casar for Introducing an Amendment to Prevent Federal Funding of Operation Lone Star

AdvocacyBy Joan PlotnickSeptember 19, 2023

Migrants trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico approach the site where workers are assembling large buoys to be used as a border barrier along the banks of the Rio…

URGE CONGRESS TO SUPPORT REFUGEES THIS SEPTEMBER

AdvocacyBy Joan PlotnickSeptember 19, 2023

photo by Tim Mossholder Faith, compassion, and common decency compel us to welcome the stranger. We volunteer with the IWC because our fellow human beings need us as they flee climate change, violence,…

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: GET YOUR FELLOW CHURCH MEMBERS INVOLVED

AdvocacyBy Joan PlotnickAugust 21, 2023

“He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Anti-integration forces were deeply entrenched in mid-century Montgomery, Alabama, government when Rosa…

TELL THE DOJ TO DEFEND HUMAN DIGNITY AT THE TEXAS BORDER

AdvocacyBy Joan PlotnickAugust 6, 2023

The Department of Justice is suing Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott after he refused to remove the floating barrier and razor wire erected earlier this month on the Rio Grande…

TELL GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT: THE CRUELTY OF OPERATION LONE STAR MUST END

AdvocacyBy Joan PlotnickJuly 24, 2023

A woman holds a child on her back as migrants walk near concertina wire in the water along the Rio Grande border with Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Sunday.…

THANK YOU FOR CALLING!

AdvocacyBy Joan PlotnickJune 12, 2023

The Texas legislature’s regular session ended May 29th. And you let us know you made 597 calls to legislators opposing anti-immigration bills! Thank you for taking action. (Click here to read…

MAKE ONE LAST CALL TO YOUR TEXAS STATE SENATOR TODAY: VOTE NO ON HB 7!

AdvocacyBy Joan PlotnickMay 24, 2023

Thanks to all of you who responded to our action alerts by making phone calls to Texas state elected officials opposing anti-immigrant legislation. You let us know that you made…

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