Posts Tagged: migration

Avert Second Shutdown

Urge Congress to Avert a Second Shutdown and Protect the Dignity of Migrants and Border Communities What’s at stake? After the longest shutdown in government history, Congress has until February 15, to figure out how to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Without a lasting agreement to keep the government funded, departments funded by the… Read more »

the government is failing all of us when it’s not working

As the partial government shutdown drags well into its third week, the human cost of the shutdown is coming into sharp focus. On Wednesday, Jan. 9, PC(USA) Office of Public Witness Director, the Reverend Jimmie Hawkins, said, “It is time for the Senate to take up the House spending bills and send them to President… Read more »

Washington Report to Presbyterians, Winter 2018

If you receive our paper mail, you should have received the Washington Report to Presbyterians, Winter 2018 edition, in your mailbox the week before Christmas. It is now available online in PDF and here on our blog. Each article is linked individually below. Articles with timely information that has changed have been updated as of… Read more »

La carga pública lastima a las comunidades

A pesar de que la situación se deteriora rápidamente en la frontera de EE. UU. y México, la administración de Trump ha propuesto una nueva ley que cambiaría drásticamente a quienes damos la bienvenida como recién llegados a nuestra sociedad. La ley, cuyo período de comentarios en curso finaliza el 10 de diciembre, daría mayor… Read more »

Public Charge Undermines Communities

Even as the situation rapidly deteriorates at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Administration has proposed a new rule that would drastically reshape who we welcome as newcomers to our society. The rule, whose ongoing comment period ends on Dec. 10, would place a higher value on those who are affluent and challenge hard-working families in their… Read more »

Families Belong Together: Comment on a Proposed Federal Rule

Holy God, as you have accompanied your people through times of captivity, wilderness, and exile, shelter and sustain all those who flee persecution, oppression, warfare, violence, hunger, and poverty. Open our hearts and homes, our gates and doors, so that they might find safety, peace, and welcome— a place to live in freedom and without… Read more »

Action Alert: People are Seeking our Help

“You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” – Deuteronomy 10:19  On Saturday, Oct. 14th a migrant caravan departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Since then, it has been moving through Guatemala and into Mexico, heading for the United States. The origins of the caravan are unknown,* as are… Read more »

Learn More About the Migrant Caravan

Prepared by American Friends Service Committee, Alianza Americas, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Kids in Need of Defense, Latin America Working Group, Women’s Refugee Commission, Washington Office on Latin America On Saturday, Oct. 14th a migrant caravan departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Since then, it has been moving through Guatemala towards Mexico. The origins… Read more »