19 JANUARY 2021
235 Organizations Co-Sign 2021 Immigration Action Plan to Undo Immigration System Weaponized by Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ahead of President-elect Biden’s inauguration, the Immigration Hub applauded commitments by the incoming administration to prioritize critical immigration policy reforms within the first 100 days of the administration and called on the administration to consider specific reforms outlined in the 2021 Immigration Action Plan. The Action Plan, first unveiled in August 2020, lays out a blueprint for the next administration to not only restore human dignity to a system weaponized by the Trump administration, but to transform America’s immigration system — reinforcing core American values and powering the economic recovery of the nation.
Since the unveiling, 235 of the nation’s leading immigration and advocacy organizations have expressed their support for the 2021 Immigration Action Plan — including a strong, diverse cross-section of advocacy organizations from UnidosUS, SEIU, and Immigration Hub to Planned Parenthood, Children’s Defense Fund, and America’s Voice. The ten specific actions articulated in the plan will lay the groundwork to both reverse the racism and damage of the Trump years and repair long standing criminalization and deportation policies that have defined many past administrations and devastated families.
“Major changes are needed to build an immigration system rooted in humanity, hold agencies accountable and to finally turn the page on Trump’s shameful era of immigration policies,” said Sarnata Reynolds, Director of Policy for Immigration Hub. “We welcome the incoming Biden administration’s prioritization of legal status for Dreamers and other long-time residents, the repeal of racist and cruel Trump policies and the implementation of bold actions to scale back immigration enforcement until it can be implemented in a humane and fair manner. The 2021 Action Plan goes further, identifying dozens of other measures required to protect the dignity of immigrants and promote the success of communities. Collectively, they are integral to the Biden administration’s efforts to lead our country towards economic recovery and truly build back better.”
Ten Actions to Transform and Modernize America’s Immigration System
Priority reforms from the 2021 Immigration Action Plan include restoring the right to asylum, decriminalizing immigration, reforming our immigration courts, and reimagining the immigration system to prioritize equity over punishment.
Action 1: Prioritize Equity and Harm Reduction in the Immigration System.
Action 2: End the Anti-Black and Discriminatory Targeting of Certain U.S. Citizens and Immigrants.
Action 3: Rebuild the U.S. Economy.
Action 4: Re-envision Leadership in the Next Administration.
Action 5: Decriminalize Immigration.
Action 6: Protect Immigrant Children, Families and Their Communities.
Action 7: Phase Out Immigration Jails and Fund Community-Based Case Management Programs.
Action 8: Establish Thriving, Rights-Respecting Borders.
Action 9: Reimagine the Role of the Immigration Courts.
Action 10: Restore the Right to Seek and Receive Protection from Persecution, Torture, and Other Serious Human Rights Violations.
The 2021 Immigration Action Plan was a collaborative effort amongst local and national immigration advocacy organizations, spearheaded by the Immigration Hub and America’s Voice. The full text of the plan can be found here.
Below is a full list of the 235 organizations that have signed on to the 2021 Immigration Action Plan.
Adhikaar
Adrian Dominican Sisters
Advocating Opportunity (AO)
African Bureau for Immigration and Social Affairs (ABISA)
African Communities Together (ACT)
African Public Affairs Committee (AfriPAC)
ALDEA The People's Justice Center
Alianza Americas
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas
Alliance of Baptists
America's Voice (AV)
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Americans for Immigrant Justice (AI Justice)
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA)
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO
Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV)
Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance (API PA)
ASISTA
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP)
AsylumWorks
Ayuda
Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture (PSOT)
Bethany House of Hospitality, Chicago
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
Black Immigrant Collective
Bread for the World
Break the Cycle
Bridges Faith Initiative
California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC)
Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition (CAIR Coalition)
Care in Action
CASA
CASA in Action
Casa de Esperanza: National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities
Casa San Jose
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Center for Disability Rights
Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS)
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)
Center Global, a program of the DC Center for the LGBT Community
Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)
Central American Resource Center -- CARECEN SF
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM)
Centro de Recursos Centroamericanos (CRECEN)
Centro Legal de la Raza
Centro Maya Guatemalteco
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CRLN)
Children's Defense Fund (CDF)
Church World Service (CWS)
Cleveland Jobs with Justice
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)
Coalition on Human Needs (CHN)
Colectivo de Mujeres Transnacionales
Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach
Community EsTr(El/La)
Compass Immigration Legal Services (CILS)
Congregation Action Network
Congregation of Bon Secours, USA
Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, U.S. Provinces
Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes
Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph
Congregation of St. Joseph Justice Team
Demand Progress
Detention Watch Network (DWN)
Disciples Refugee and Immigration Ministries (RIM)
Dominican Sisters of Houston
Dominican Sisters of Sparkill
Durango Unido en Chicago
Equality California
Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, CCLA Inc.
Every. Last. One.
Faith in Public Life (FIPL)
Families Belong Together (FBT)
Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF)
First Focus on Children
Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC)
Florida People's Advocacy Center (FL PAC)
For Good PGH
Franciscan Action Network (FAN)
Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart
Freedom Network USA (FNUSA)
Friends of Miami-Dade Detainees (FOMDD)
Frontera de Cristo
Future Coalition
Futures Without Violence (FUTURES)
Grannies Respond / Abuelas Responden, Inc.
Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart
Grupo de Apoyo e Integración Hispanoamericano
Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), also known as “The Bridge”
Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC)
HEAL Trafficking
HIAS
HIAS Pennsylvania
Hispanic Federation (HF)
Hispanic Health Network
Human Rights First (HRF)
Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (HRI)
Immaculate Heart Community Commission on Immigration
Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef)
Immigrant Families Together Foundation
Immigrant Food
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
Immigrant Legal Services of the Central Coast (ILSCC)
Immigrants Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives
Immigration and Refugee Committee Sisters of the Most Precious Blood
Immigration Equality Action Fund
Immigration Hub
Indivisible
Innovation Law Lab
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice (ICPJ)
International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
Jewish Family Service of San Diego
Justice for Migrant Women
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
La Raza Centro Legal (LRCL), San Francisco
La Union Del Pueblo Entero (LUPE)
Latin Advocacy Network (LATINAN)
Latin America Working Group (LAWG)
Latinx LGBTQI+ Initiative Inc. (LILA)
Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG)
Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWE)
Leadership Team of the Felician Sisters of North America
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Libertas Center for Human Rights
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS)
March On
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA)
Massachusetts TPS Committee
Mi Familia Vota
Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC)
Michigan United
Mision Guatemala Usa
MomsRising
Muslim Advocates
National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd
National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV)
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Association of Social Workers- NYC Chapter (NAWS-NYC)
National Council of Jewish Women
National Disability Rights Network (NDRN)
National Equality Action Team (NEAT)
National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC)
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIPNLG)
National Justice for Our Neighbors (NJFON)
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA)
National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT)
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
Nebraska Appleseed
NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice (NETWORK)
New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)
NILC Immigrant Justice Fund (NILC IJF)
North Carolina Justice Center (NC Justice Center)
Northern Illinois Justice for Our Neighbors
Office of Peace, Justice, and Ecological Integrity, Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth
Ohio Immigrant Alliance (OIA)
OneAmerica
Open Immigration Legal Services
Oxfam America
Partnerships for Trauma Recovery (PTR)
Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (PICC)
People's Action
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)
Poder Latinx
Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration
Provincial Council Clerics of St. Viator
Public Counsel
Reform Immigration for Texas Alliance (RITA)
Refugee Council USA
Refugees International
Removal Defense Corps (RDC), Southwestern Law School
Resilience Force
RGV Equal Voice Network
Salvadoran Association of Los Angeles (ASOSAL)
San Antonio Region Justice For Our Neighbors
Save the Children Action Network (SCAN)
School Sisters of Notre Dame-Atlantic-Midwest Province
School Sisters of Notre Dame - Central Pacific Province
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
SERVICES, IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN)
Silver Stat Equality-Nevada
Sisters and Brothers of Immigrants (SBI)
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas - Justice Team
Sisters of Charity of New York
Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Sisters of St AnneSisters of St. Francis Sylvania
Sisters of St. Joseph of OrangeSisters of St. Joseph TOSF
Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood NY
Sisters of the Humility of Mary
Sisters of the Living Word
Sisters of the Presentation, Dubuque, Iowa
Sojourners
South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
South Texas Human Rights Center
Southeast Asian Resource Action Center
Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC)
SPLC Action Fund
Tahirih Justice Center
Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP)
The Children's Partnership
The Lifeboat Project, Inc.
The Rhizome Center for Migrants
Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC)
Ujima, Inc.: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community
T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
UnidosNow
UnidosUS
UNITED SIKHS
United Stateless
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)
U.S. Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph
USC International Human Rights Clinic (HRC)
Utah Health & Human Rights (UHHR)
Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights (VACIR)
Voice for Refuge Action Fund
Voices For Freedom
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians
Wind of the Spirit Immigrant Resource Center (WOTS)
Witness at the Border
Women's Refugee Commission
Women Working Together USA
Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights
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