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US Politics: Immigration Issues
May. 24th, 2021 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beatrice_otterThere are several bills in congress right now that affect US treatment of immigrants and refugees, and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee service has a handy-dandy widget to email or call your Senators/Representative in support of fair and just treatment. LIRS is a Christian organization, but it's easy enough to delete the one line stating your religious affiliation if you wish.
First up, we have the US Citizenship Act of 2021, Biden’s immigration reform proposal. Among its many provisions, it provides DACA and TPS recipients with green cards, setting them on a path to citizenship, improves the family reunification process by reducing visa backlogs, and creates a pathway to earned citizenship for approximately 11 million immigrants in the country without legal status. If you would like to support the Citizenship Act, contact your elected officials.
Second is The Protection of Kids in Detention Act, or PROKID Act, which would provide a critical layer of oversight and ensure transparency, protection, and accountability for all immigrant children in any type of government custody. It would create a permanent Office of the Ombudsman within the Department of Human and Health Services to act as an advocate, subject-matter expert, and independent authority responsible for ensuring that the rights afforded to children by the Flores Settlement Agreement, the 2008 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), and other relevant statutes are properly recognized, applied, and enforced. To support the PROKID Act, use this email widget to contact your elected officials.
Third, we have the The Guaranteed Refugee Admissions Ceiling Enhancement Act, or GRACE Act, would protect and restore the U.S. resettlement program by setting a minimum refugee admissions goal of 125,000 and increasing congressional oversight over the administration's operations of the resettlement program. To support the GRACE Act, use this email widget to contact your elected officials.
On a related note, if you would like to put pressure on your elected officials to move left, but don't know how, the website 5calls.org/ is an easy way to do it. They always have a list of issues at a national and state level, with information on the issue and a script to call with and a widget to get the right phone numbers for your elected officials.
First up, we have the US Citizenship Act of 2021, Biden’s immigration reform proposal. Among its many provisions, it provides DACA and TPS recipients with green cards, setting them on a path to citizenship, improves the family reunification process by reducing visa backlogs, and creates a pathway to earned citizenship for approximately 11 million immigrants in the country without legal status. If you would like to support the Citizenship Act, contact your elected officials.
Second is The Protection of Kids in Detention Act, or PROKID Act, which would provide a critical layer of oversight and ensure transparency, protection, and accountability for all immigrant children in any type of government custody. It would create a permanent Office of the Ombudsman within the Department of Human and Health Services to act as an advocate, subject-matter expert, and independent authority responsible for ensuring that the rights afforded to children by the Flores Settlement Agreement, the 2008 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), and other relevant statutes are properly recognized, applied, and enforced. To support the PROKID Act, use this email widget to contact your elected officials.
Third, we have the The Guaranteed Refugee Admissions Ceiling Enhancement Act, or GRACE Act, would protect and restore the U.S. resettlement program by setting a minimum refugee admissions goal of 125,000 and increasing congressional oversight over the administration's operations of the resettlement program. To support the GRACE Act, use this email widget to contact your elected officials.
On a related note, if you would like to put pressure on your elected officials to move left, but don't know how, the website 5calls.org/ is an easy way to do it. They always have a list of issues at a national and state level, with information on the issue and a script to call with and a widget to get the right phone numbers for your elected officials.
