Urge House and Senate To Strengthen Oversight of Immigration Agencies and Expand Immigrants Covered in next COVID Relief Bill

 

Our Action Alerts make it easy for you to let your representative and senators hear your voice. They include links to electronic messages and talking points. Click the links below to take action.

House Action Alert on the DHS Appropriations Bill. Details on House action.

Senate Action Alert on the DHS Appropriations Bill and passing the HEROES Act, which includes health and economic aid for immigrant families that were excluded from earlier COVID relief bills. Details on Senate action.

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UUSJ calls on both chambers to strictly control the Department of Homeland Security immigration-related agencies. These agencies have aggressively enforced anti-immigrant policies, placed the lives of asylum-seekers at risk, and spent billions on an ineffective border wall.

DHS must be barred from moving funds from other agencies to immigrant enforcement activities.

The only leverage Congress has at this point is through appropriations bills to run DHS. We urge our House and Senate members to strengthen oversight on both funding and policy for DHS immigration enforcement agencies for the fiscal year 2021, which begins Oct.1.

DHS includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and provides services for immigrants’ legal residence and citizenship, though the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

We are also urging our senators to expand aid to immigrants in the next COVID relief bill – the HEROES Act. Past COVID relief bills excluded immigrants without Social Security numbers and their families, even if they are working in frontline jobs and paying taxes. The House-passed version of the HEROES Act includes these provisions. Click for more information about the actions House – Senate.