ILAP joins a national effort to hold elected officials accountable for racist, anti-immigrant language by demanding Congressional leaders denounce the use of dehumanizing rhetoric.
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ILAP joins the Fairness to Freedom Campaign in sending a letter urging Congress to allocate funding to help safeguard the due process rights of people in removal proceedings by providing access to legal representation.
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ILAP signs onto a letter led by African Communities Together and Congolese community leaders across the U.S. calling for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Special Student Relief designation for the Democratic Republic of Congo due to escalating widespread violence, environmental disasters, and humanitarian emergencies in the country.
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ILAP joins the Haitian Bridge Alliance and 480 other organizations calling for the extension and redesignation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and an indefinite moratorium on deportation flights to Haiti amid a life-threatening humanitarian crisis.
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The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (MIRC) sends a letter from its 100+ member organizations in support of the plan to create and fund an Office of New Americans in Maine.
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ILAP joins 263 organizations calling on the Biden administration and Congress to firmly reject all anti-immigrant policies in funding negotiations, including proposals to further restrict asylum, expand expedited removal, detain families, and revive Title 42.
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ILAP calls for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to continue providing interpreters at asylum interviews for non-English speakers who cannot find or afford their own interpreters.
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ILAP joins Human Rights First and others in denouncing proposals seeking to eliminate or reduce asylum protections. The joint letter urges the Biden administration to fulfill its promise of restoring the U.S. asylum system.
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