Advocacy and Education

The bridge across all of our programs is the desire to change United States policies that impact the people we work with. Extreme poverty and vulnerability in Haiti and Nicaragua lead families to make the heartbreaking decision to migrate, to the United States or elsewhere. Our priority is addressing the root causes of migration in Haiti and Nicaragua. At the same time, we believe that we must insist on fair policies in the United States that promote the dignity of migrants. Current priorities:

End Title 42 and Remain in Mexico, and secure asylum once again at our borders
Work in solidarity with migrants traveling in Central America and Mexico
Bring a social justice framework to the United States’ policies that impact our partners in Haiti and Nicaragua, with an emphasis on non-intervention.

Take Action: #FreeThemAll and End Deportation Flights

#FreeThemAll week of Action Continues today

Drawing connections between immigrant detention and mass incarceration.

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#FreeThemAll Week of Action, Day 3: Congress

Day 3 – Wednesday, April 1: #DefundHate and #FreeThemAll

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#FreeThemAll Week of Action, Day 2: Trans Day of Visibility

Day 2 – Tuesday, March 31: Let Our People Go/Trans Day of Visibility (From Detention Watch Network)

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#FreeThemAll Week of Action: Monday, ICE Field Offices

This is the first day of a cyber-week of action to get people held in immigrant detention released, and to get Immigration and Customs Enforcement to suspend enforcement and removal operations. We have written several background articles on the campaign, and the dangers of incarceration for people at this time.

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From Rikers Island to Adelanto #FreeThemAll

Rikers Island

We are running out of time to save the lives of those incarcerated in the world's largest network of prisons, jails, and detention sites. There are 2 million people incarcerated in the United States - more than any other country on the planet. They are all at risk.

To Contain COVID-19, We Must Tear Down Some Walls

"Viruses know no borders and they don't care about your ethnicity or the color of your skin or how much money you have in the bank," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization health emergencies program.