Author: Pablo DeJesus

Press Release: Biden’s Executive Action for Immigrant Spouses of U.S. Citizens and DACA, June 2024

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2024 Contact: Pablo DeJesus | info@uusj.org Share | https://bit.ly/BidenEO2_UUSJ Gratified with the President’s Executive Action for Immigrant Families Improving Visas and DACA is a meaningful way to say Families Matter.   Washington, D.C. — Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice is pleased with President Biden for issuing an executive action that might prove … Continue reading Press Release: Biden’s Executive Action for Immigrant Spouses of U.S. Citizens and DACA, June 2024

12th Anniversary of DACA, June 2024

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2024 Contact: Pablo DeJesus | info@uusj.org Share | https://bit.ly/UUSJ_DACA-12yrs The President should strengthen and defend DACA Dreamers and other DACA recipients have been waiting 4,383 days and counting.   Washington, D.C. — Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice is saddened that yet another Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) anniversary has arrived without … Continue reading 12th Anniversary of DACA, June 2024

Press Release: Biden’s Executive Action on Asylum, June 2024

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 4, 2024 Contact: Pablo DeJesus | info@uusj.org Share | https://bit.ly/BidenEO_UUSJ Disagreement With the President’s Executive Action on Asylum Closing the U.S.-Mexico is not a faithful solution. Washington, D.C. — Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice is profoundly disappointed in President Biden for issuing an executive action that functionally closes the U.S.-Mexico border to asylees, people … Continue reading Press Release: Biden’s Executive Action on Asylum, June 2024

UU solidarity from across the U.S. for Haiti

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Noticeable UU support for Haiti During early April 2024 UUSJ joined an Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) letter with more than 250 Faith Leaders and Organizations, directed to the White House and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, on the matter of the cirisis in Haiti. The letter urges the Administration to take immediate … Continue reading UU solidarity from across the U.S. for Haiti

UU solidarity from across the U.S. for Annunciation House

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Noticeable UU support for Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas An essential effort during March 2024 centered on the response to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton taking action to shut down Annunciation House. This Catholic humanitarian organization has provided hospitality and other life-saving services to migrants for decades. In reply, 268 faith leaders and 165 … Continue reading UU solidarity from across the U.S. for Annunciation House

Voting Rights is a Blessed Liberty, Congress must pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 29, 2024 Contact: Pablo DeJesús | info@uusj.org Link: https://bit.ly/VRAA-BlessedLiberty   Voting Rights is a Blessed Liberty Congress must pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act   Washington, D.C. – Today, the Senate reintroduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2023, offering its companion to H.R. 14. … Continue reading Voting Rights is a Blessed Liberty, Congress must pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

Senators announce funding deal that undermines Asylum

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 5, 2024 Contact: Pablo DeJesús | info@uusj.org | (202) 600 – 9132 Bill offers some positive provisions but overall sets up a contest of compassion between those arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border and all others    Washington, DC— UUSJ  opposes the Senate Supplemental funding proposal which, in our view, would advance … Continue reading Senators announce funding deal that undermines Asylum

UUSJ Welcomes Bipartisan Proposal to Expand the Child Tax Credit, Urges Passage Without Delay

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For Immediate Release: January 18, 2024 WASHINGTON D.C.—In advance of consideration of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) proposal, UUSJ Executive Director Pablo DeJesús said: “Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice views child poverty in the United States as a travesty, a moral failure of our public discourse and mutual care. Our nation is among the most … Continue reading UUSJ Welcomes Bipartisan Proposal to Expand the Child Tax Credit, Urges Passage Without Delay

Steve Eckstrand on “Making migrants wait in Mexico is not a good solution”

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There were many common-sense ideas in the Dec. 20 editorial “A grand bargain on Ukraine and immigration,” but requiring migrants to wait in a third country is cruel and makes no sense. “Third country” presumably means Mexico, and the evidence is clear that Mexico is not a safe place for migrants to wait. From January … Continue reading Steve Eckstrand on “Making migrants wait in Mexico is not a good solution”

I Side with the People – They Do Not Have to Be My People, Rev. Peggy Clarke, UUSJ Board Chair

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Commentary   It is because of my Jewish heritage and my family’s history in pogroms, ghettos, and concentration camps that I am speaking out against Israeli treatment of Palestinians, most especially the nightmare being visited on the people of Gaza right now. It is because I was told the stories of my people, because of … Continue reading I Side with the People – They Do Not Have to Be My People, Rev. Peggy Clarke, UUSJ Board Chair