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2021 Sustainer Drive for Liberation!

Become a monthly donor to sustain organizing, advocacy, and leadership for liberation and justice! 

Your sustained gift provides accompaniment to people targeted by the immigration system and carceral system with concrete support and a community of care.  Your donation builds leadership and lasting solutions that protect the rights and dignity of immigrants and those  incarcerated. Your support pushes forward policies that reject a framework of punishment and criminalization in favor of community-based solutions guided by values of solidarity, compassion and justice.  ‘

We are ending immigration detention and mass incarceration by building the power of individuals, people of faith and congregations:

  • Over 2000 spiritually rooted leaders and volunteers  
  • More than 1000 newly arrived immigrants and incarcerated people supported and reunited with loved ones.
  • 250 congregations and partner organizations 

Your monthly donation contributes to:

  • $25 Monthly: You can sustain advocacy for just policies to reimagine immigration and public safety.
  • $50 Monthly: You can provide training of volunteers to accompany newly arrived immigrants & advocate for families directly impacted by mass incarceration.
  • $100 Monthly: You can build long term leadership development of people targeted by the immigration system and carceral system to shape and guide strategies for change.

Gifts for Monthly Sustainers!

New monthly donors will receive a special Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity thank you gift.

New $25 monthly donors:  will receive the new IM4HI Sticker with slogan “All Are Sacred Across Bars and Borders.”  
New $50 monthly donors: will receive the brand new 2021 IM4HI T-shirts with beautiful, original artwork by Bay Area Artist Alex Phelps! It includes our slogan “All People Are Sacred Across Bars and Borders.” Current monthly donors will receive a T-shirt if they recommit and increase their gift.   (We will follow up with you to find out your size.)


More Donor Info

  • Strengthen the Safety Net during COVID-19: Donate to the IM4HI Migrant & Prisoner Emergency Support Fund
  • Want to update your Interfaith Movement donor profile? Change your name, address, card number, ongoing donation amount or date? Log in to DonorBox.org.
  • Prefer to send a paper check? Our mailing address is: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (IM4HI), 310 – 8th Street, Suite 310, Oakland, CA 94607-4253
  • Did you know? If you are 70½ or older and have an IRA, the IRA Charitable Rollover provides you with a unique opportunity to make charitable gifts to organizations like IM4HI. Such gifts are sent directly from your IRA and count toward your required annual distribution, tax free. If you have any questions, contact your financial institution or call us for more info.

Thank you for standing up for the dignity and sacredness of all people.


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Letter to Biden: Communities Not Cages

In the midst of a holy season for many, more than 800 faith leaders across religious and spiritual traditions sent a letter to President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas to take immediate action towards ending immigration detention, beginning by closing ten detention centers in 2021.

“In many of our sacred texts, migration stories are foundational in developing a moral framework that includes the right to move and live freely, be welcomed, and find belonging. We are morally compelled to seek ways to dramatically reduce all forms of incarceration in favor of systems of help, community support and non-carceral solutions.”

See the full letter here.

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Inland Empire Community News: “ICE and its history of circumventing state laws”

Op-Ed

By Hilda Cruz, Regional Organizer, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity

Like many others, I was shocked to learn about the for-profit detention centers that were being built all over the country, including the one in the city of Adelanto. … Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, Detention Watch Network, and Dignity not Detention Coalition will continue to work with people in detention and helping their families share stories of this harmful practice to make it public through prayer vigils, actions, and events. …

Hilda Cruz, Regional Organizer, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity

Read the full article on the IECN website.