Our Activities

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Even if you've done so before it matters and registers when you take the time to ask your elected officials for something specific. 

• Ask federal Congressional representatives to change immigration law to limit and eliminate use of immigration detention, cut funding for it, end mandates around minimum number of spaces available, and require DHS to grant advocates and community stakeholders broad access to any detention facilities that remain in operation.
• Ask State and local representatives to mandate public access to detention facilities, strengthen oversight and inspections, and prohibit private detention facilities as well as prevent counties and cities from contracting with DHS to supply immigration detention space. 

Family members who are impoverished when breadwinners are detained are also in need of help meeting basic needs. You can find a list of bond funds that can accept donations here. 

There is a consistent need for people to provide a place to live and help with basic needs for people who may not be legally authorized to work while pursuing requests for status in immigration court, or for people who are just getting on their feet after having been granted status.

Help raise awareness of immigration detention and its consequences by suggesting, hosting, and leading talks about the system and the people affected by it among potentially interested groups of people that you work or socialize with (your church, a social or community club, school communities, families, etc.). Feature the voices and testimony of people who have been and are detained.

Freedom for Immigrants, which operates a hotline that people in immigration detention can call for free, is especially looking for Haitian Creole-speaking volunteers. A role description for hotline operators can be found here.  

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