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Capital & Main: “How Immigration Activists Got ICE Out of a County Jail”

Rev. Deborah Lee
Rev. Deborah Lee

Rev. Deborah Lee, director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, and the central organizer of the vigils, said the faith groups involved had to examine their conscience. “The transfer of many detainees instead of their release was hard to swallow at first, and many families felt helpless,” she said. “We asked ourselves if we were responsible for their transfer, as ICE accused us. But the families reminded us that ICE moves detainees all the time, and often they don’t know where their own family members are.”

Read Capital & Main’s full 9/12/2018 article by David Bacon here.

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Empowering Latino Immigrant Congregations

We engage in relationships with Latino immigrant congregations and invite them to foster leadership skills that respond to immigrant needs, lead to advocacy, and empowerment of the immigrant community.

Inland Valley Region: Hilda Cruz, hcruz@im4humanintegrity.org

Bay Area Region: Miriam Noriega, mnoriega@im4humanintegrity.org

Empowerment of the Immigrant Community

We promote the leadership of directly impacted immigrants to center their experience in our work.

  • We train immigrants to become the ambassadors of their own experience and share their testimonies publicly to shift the narrative in the U.S.
  • Congregations can learn to implement a Naturalization Campaign, where citizenship classes are taught in their own congregations with an emphasis on developing new citizens who will be engaged and conscientious voters.

Faith-Rooted Organizing Training

Develop leaders who foster a deeper commitment of advocacy and service to immigrants who are seeking support in their local congregations.

  • Facilitate regional intentional meetings to learn faith-rooted organizing techniques.
  • Implement non-violent skills and peace building interfaith traditions that promote solidarity to change institutions and politics.
  • Host a yearly nurturing, weekend retreat for committed volunteers as they reflect on the connection between faith traditions and their personal immigration story.

Deportation Defense and Accompaniment

Clergy and faith leaders across race, culture and spirituality gather to achieve a world which honors the dignity of every human person and provide Spiritual Care to those affected by immigration detention.

  • Visit and write to people in immigrant detention centers to provide accompaniment and community presence at their court hearing and ongoing ICE check-ins.
  • Provide spiritual and emotional support to the detainees’ family who is facing the crisis of having a loved one in detention.
  • Prophetic presence in public spaces as we  pray for all immigrants and their families as they go through the stressful and complicated immigration process.

Currently accompanying people in the Adelanto Facility (Adelanto, CA) — contact Hilda Cruz

Policy Advocacy

We engage in policy campaigns and activities to shift the public discourse towards immigrants/refugees, Muslims, and formerly incarcerated. In addition we educate the public on  the root causes of immigration and mass incarceration.

  • Invite people to lobby local representatives and share their testimony to advocate for policies that protects their rights, dignity and well being.
  • We educate on the implementation of new and ongoing pro-immigrant laws and policies.
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Night Out For Safety & Liberation

This year, Our Justice Not Jails program invites the community to come together for a different kind of conversation about what real public safety looks like: public safety based on respect and on access to good schools, good jobs, and good services in neighborhoods that are over-policed but under-resourced in every other way.
Our event at Ward AME Church will work in small conversation circles and then come together at the end for a moment of commitment and a moment of remembrance for all those who have suffered and died under our current broken system of policing.
Event: Night Out For Safety & Liberation
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 7th, 6 p.m.
Venue: Ward AME Church