{"id":21036,"date":"2019-08-31T20:51:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T00:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=21036"},"modified":"2019-08-31T20:51:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T00:51:40","slug":"july-uusj-advocates-keeping-families-together-and-the-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/july-uusj-advocates-keeping-families-together-and-the-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"July &#8211; UUSJ Advocates Keeping Families Together and the Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Advocacy Corps delivered letters from UUs and a UUSJ message asking House members to decrease spending on immigration enforcement, including ICE raids, detention, deportation and border militarization. The 24 Advocacy Corps volunteers visited 55 offices, held six scheduled meetings and delivered 169 constituent letters as well as a UUSJ message urging reducing detention in favor of equally effective, less traumatizing and less costly alternatives.\u00a0 We sought adequate funding for non-enforcement efforts such as processing of asylum cases, better care of detained minors and more immigration court judges.\u00a0 We asked Congress to assure that emergency funding for addressing the humanitarian crisis in detention centers is not redirected to expanding detention or ICE raids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Advocacy Corps delivered letters from UUs and a UUSJ message asking House members to decrease spending on immigration enforcement, including ICE raids, detention, deportation and border militarization. The 24 Advocacy Corps volunteers visited 55 offices, held six scheduled meetings and delivered 169 constituent letters as well as a UUSJ message urging reducing detention in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/july-uusj-advocates-keeping-families-together-and-the-border-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July &#8211; UUSJ Advocates Keeping Families Together and the Border Crisis<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036","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=21036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21038,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036\/revisions\/21038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}