An urgent ask from Al Otro Lado: Do you have people in your network who can help companion children who were separated at the border to be reunited? Read more here and fill out this form to express interest in volunteering as a companion. The info session: Join us on Wed. April 10th at 5 pm PDT for … [Read more...]
A Story About Immigration from Side With Love
Sarah is telling us about first time she heard a knock on her door from someone seeking her support. Outside was a 13 year old girl, alone, with bloody feet, with love in her heart. Sarah was new to southern Arizona and did not know what to do. She gave the girl water and called border patrol. Sarah … [Read more...]
Guestworker Program H2A Needs Oversight Now
Farmworker leaders from Community to Community Development and Familias Unidas por la Justicia have been in Olympia this month supporting bills concerning much-needed oversight of the H2A guestworker visa program. Take action to make sure this bill becomes a law! C2C has been demanding increased … [Read more...]
Trump’s border wall construction threatens sacred lands of Carrizo/Camecrudo
President Donald J. Trump’s border wall will do more than just keep out asylum seekers. Its construction will also damage the ecosystem, destroy ancient Native village and burial sites, and tear out fields where sacred Native medicine is grown, according to Juan Mancias, chairman of the … [Read more...]
House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee on HB 1398, SB-5438
Ramon Torres, President of Familias Unidas por la Justicia and Rosalinda Guillen, C2C both testified Support House Bill- 1398 and Senate Bill -5438 You can take action on these bills by clicking on the links above, and then click on "Comment on this Bill." The comment link will take you to a … [Read more...]
The Scene at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Pictures
Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves over border patrol agents. Photo album of a migrant family trying to enter the U.S. … [Read more...]
Xmas Day in Chula Vista and at the wall
From Julia Cochrane, board member of JUUstice Washington and issue lead for the Refugee, Immigrant and Migrant Solidarity issue action reports from the border. "Today is Christmas. Nikki and Jessica are in Tijuana. I am in Chula Vista. I was not needed today. So I slept in, hung out with my … [Read more...]
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project request you Take Action!
Below is a letter that is being circulated for sending to our Congressional representatives requesting that no addition funds be appropriated for ICE, CBP or the border wall. Please consider either sending this same letter, or better yet, personalize it and send it onto Senators Murray and … [Read more...]
Your Gift Empowers Us All
Reach beyond the mundane Contribute, today Now is the time to help us reach beyond the mundane. Our vision to empower people, with a new and more powerful thrust, to build a just world in which all people thrive. By supporting JUUstice Washington right now, you will be helping us to achieve … [Read more...]
Support Hunger Strike at Northwest Detention Center
Weeks ago detained immigrant Amar Mergansana died while being held at Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center. Amar was in solitary confinement, on hunger strike, advocating for his rights. He asked repeatedly that GEO Group and ICE give him medical treatment. He was ignored and days later passed away … [Read more...]
Rep. Jayapal visits migrants in Tijuana as lawmakers prepare probe into border clashes with U.S. border patrol
U.S. House Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, met Saturday with Central American migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, gathering information for an expected investigation by the House into their treatment and clashes between them and U.S. Border Patrol last week. Jayapal listened to the stories of the … [Read more...]
Faith Communities Asked to Oppose Public Charge Rule
Faith Action Network of Washington is putting forward the call to faith communities to oppose DHS Docket No. USCIS-2010-0012, RIN 1615-AA22, Comments in Response to Proposed Rulemaking: Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds. This proposed change could impact over 533,000 people, including … [Read more...]
Carvan Asylum Seekers Video
Putting the human faces to the Caravan of Asylum Seekers. Take a few minutes to view the humanity, then pass it on. From Independent photojournalist, Linda Wolf Mexico City … [Read more...]
UUSC and the Honduran Caravan
I know our hearts have been heavy in recent days with so much difficult news: Pittsburg; attacks on birthright citizenship; and 5,000 troops sent to the border as if people seeking asylum were our biggest threat – while white supremacist violence takes lives. Many people have reached out to UUSC … [Read more...]
Kids on the Line
Children caught up in our immigration system as reported by REVEAL, from the Center for Investigative Reporting. When they took my son examines the stories of two families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border and how what happened to them matches up with what the government said was supposed to … [Read more...]
Immigrant Relief: The Stories
“I felt so alone in the Detention Center. I couldn’t believe that people in my community were working to help me. I’m so grateful for help paying my bond, I never thought that would be possible. I know I would be murdered if I was deported.” – Bellingham neighbor, upon release from the Tacoma … [Read more...]
Hunger strikers sue to prohibit forced feeding at Tacoma immigration detention center
BY ALEXIS KRELL - Tacoma News Tribune September 18, 2018 05:51 PM Hunger strikers, including one who reportedly hasn’t eaten for nearly a month, have sued to prevent being force-fed as they protest conditions at the immigration detention center on the Tacoma Tideflats. Northwest Detention … [Read more...]
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