Northwest Immigrant Rights Project has been proud to partner with the Washington Dream Coalition (WDC) and its COVID-19 Relief Fund for Undocumented Individuals in Washington State. This fund is already providing critical support to thousands of families in Washington who do not have access to unemployment insurance system or federal stimulus payments. WDC is joining…
From the moment the coronavirus began spreading in the United States, advocates and experts warned that ICE’s network of detention centers posed a serious problem — medical experts at the Department of Homeland Security called the facilities a “tinderbox” for the spread of the disease — and said they expected detainees to die absent changes in…
The U.S., with less than five percent of the world’s population, accounts for nearly a third of its coronavirus deaths, according to NPR. It has by far the highest death toll of any country in the world, and the virus that causes COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than every military conflict since the Korean…
Currently there are two bills before our federal legislators. Take action and contact the folks below. S. 3622 – Indian Tribal Government Coronavirus Disaster Assistance Cost Share Relief Act, which would waive the 25 percent non-federal cost share that tribes must currently provide to receive disaster assistance through FEMA. NCAI letter to the White House Sen. Udall’s (D. NM)…
Familias Unidas por la Justicia and Community to Community Development are currently supporting six farmworker strikes in Yakima County in solidarity with workers who have walked off the job due to health and safety concerns around Covid-19. Workers at Allan Brothers Fruit walked out on May 7 after at least 14 of their co-workers tested…
