{"id":15742,"date":"2015-11-12T15:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=15742"},"modified":"2022-07-13T21:05:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T01:05:06","slug":"immigration-letter-writing-campaign-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/immigration-letter-writing-campaign-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling on Congress to Take Action to Address our Immigration Crisis &#8211; Letter-Writing Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are fast approaching the first anniversary of the date that President Obama announced the DAPA program, and the week of November 15-21, 2015 has been selected as a time of national action to dramatize the lack of progress on alleviating the problems that immigrants face. The UUSJ Steering Committee urges members and congregations to make UU voices heard in the conversation on immigration by writing letters to their federal House members and Senators.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there is a tremendous amount of rhetoric about deporting the 11 million\u00a0undocumented people living among us.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two courts have ruled against the President\u2019s attempt to begin a program of deferring from deportation millions of undocumented parents of citizens or lawful permanent residents, a program known by its acronym, DAPA. \u00a0Also,\u00a0a federal judge has ruled that the Obama Administration\u2019s policies and practices for detaining undocumented immigrant families is in violation of a court settlement reached almost twenty years ago that stipulates the length and kind of treatment such families and children must receive in immigration detention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Letters should be addressed and hand-delivered to the Representative and Senators for whom the signer is a constituent. You can use the <a href=\"http:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Template-immigration-letter-to-Congress.docx\">UUSJ sample letter<\/a> to adapt for a sign-on letter or use as an example for writing your own. If you need help determining your elected officials and where their offices are located, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/act.commoncause.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=sunlight_advocacy_list_page\">use this tool<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mailed letters\u00a0may take three weeks or more to get to the Capitol Hill offices, due to security screening measures, so i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">t is most effective <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to collect the signed letters<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and either deliver them yourself or get them to a member of the UUSJ Immigration Steering Committee: Dean Wanderer, Chair, (Accotink), David Strauss (UUCR), Don Chery (RRUUC), or Lavona Grow, UUSJ Chair (UUCA).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Questions? Contact Elizabeth Stevens, UUSJ Administator, info@uusj.org or\u00a0202-600-9132<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background We are fast approaching the first anniversary of the date that President Obama announced the DAPA program, and the week of November 15-21, 2015 has been selected as a time of national action to dramatize the lack of progress on alleviating the problems that immigrants face. The UUSJ Steering Committee urges members and congregations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/immigration-letter-writing-campaign-to-congress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calling on Congress to Take Action to Address our Immigration Crisis &#8211; Letter-Writing Campaign<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,93,1011,1010,73,3],"tags":[1318,1520,1857,1859,1858],"class_list":["post-15742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-dc","category-denominational-new","category-featured-news","category-immigration","category-news","tag-dapa","tag-immigration","tag-letters","tag-sign-on-letter","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24817,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742\/revisions\/24817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}