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On June 18th, immigrant families, artists and actors will share the stage at Los Angeles’ historic Holman United Methodist Church, telling the history of our nation’s rich immigrant heritage through personal stories and musical performances.

I’d like to invite your partnership through co-sponsorship. If you agree to promote this celebration through your network and mobilize your constituency, your organization will be listed on the attached flyer that will go public within 24 hours. Please confirm your commitment and collaboration by responding to me at your earliest convenience.

It will be a star-studded evening honoring the native people of this land while lifting the powerful voice of the often-dismissed dreams of new Americans, who come to this country to build a brighter future.

You don’t want to miss it  – RSVP now.www.ihm2016.eventbrite.com<http://www.ihm2016.eventbrite.com>

 

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Victory: SF Supes approve legislation limit deportations

PRESS RELEASE
FREE SF Statement: Due Process vote represents progress; 
Coalition will keep fighting to end detentions and deportations

San Francisco — This afternoon, just moments ago, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved broadly-supported legislation by Supervisor Avalos to update the city’s pro-immigrant policies. The new law will largely keep local law enforcement out of deportations and upholds key values of Due Process, inclusion, and rehabilitation.

Specifically, the updated ordinance protects community members from new, deceptive deportation practices by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which led to the near-deportation of car theft victim Pedro Figueroa and have added to a growing crisis of confidence in local law enforcement.

In response to these developments, the FREE SF Coalition – including  Asian Law Caucus; Causa Justa::Just Cause;  California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance; California Immigrant Policy Center; Centro Legal de la Raza; Community United Against Violence; Dolores St. Community Services; EL/LA;  Faith in Action Bay Area; Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area; Mujeres Unidas y Activas;  Pangea Legal Services, Young Workers United – issued the following statement:

Today’s compromise agreement is an important step forward for San Francisco’s immigrant communities. The policy the Board approved today will protect many people from ICE’s new, deceptive deportation tactics. In largely upholding Due Process, San Francisco has taken a stand against hate and scapegoating.

At the same time, while we recognize this important step, we believe that any entanglement between troubled local law enforcement agencies and a deportation system that lacks due process is unjust, no matter how limited. As the crisis in confidence in local law enforcement had made clear, communities of color face discrimination and criminalization.

Thus, we pledge to continue to fight to uphold the basic human rights of all people and to continue the fight to end harmful detentions and deportations. We will closely monitor this policy’s implementation and will continue to push for real solutions that honor our values of rehabilitation and move us forward together.

Background: The City’s 2013 Due Process for All ordinance, passed unanimously, guarded against most ICE request to “hold” immigrants for extra time. These requests were later found to be unconstitutional by federal courts. ICE then instituted new, deceptive practices with the same painful results, including requesting “notification” of when a community member is about to be released from jail or for personal information like home addresses.
The newly passed legislation upholds those protections to prevent equally damaging requests for law enforcement to notify ICE of personal information, and also removes an obsolete carve-out in the city’s Sanctuary Ordinance that had left the door open to significant abuse.
After a series of negotiations with Sheriff Hennessy, the finally passed legislation contains limited exceptions.  Specifically, law enforcement can only turn over someone to federal immigration authorities if they have been convicted of (1) a violent felony in the last 7 years; or (2) a certain type of serious felony in the last 5 years; or (3) three felonies as specified in California’s AB 4 in the last 5 years; AND the person is held to answer on an AB 4-eligible felony.
Media Coverage:
Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sanfrancisco-immigration-idUSKCN0YG065 (quotes our statement!)
Associated Press 
SF Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-supervisors-OK-compromise-sanctuary-city-7943757.php (quotes Saira)
SF Examiner 
KTVU 2
KRON 4 http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=44c548cb-1059-48c5-bfcb-5d6748b46a22
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Alliances and Partners 2016

ACLU of San Diego

ACLU of Southern California

Adonai Community Church, Lake Elsinore

All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena

All Soul’s Episcopal Church and Preschool

Alliance San Diego

Arlington United Church of Christ, Kensington

Arlington United Methodist Church, Riverside

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles

Beacon Fellowship

Bend the Arc

Berkeley Methodist United

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Perris

Bethel Congregational Church United Church of Christ, Ontario

Black Alliance for Just Immigration

Buena Vista United Methodist Church

California Council of Churches

California Domestic Workers Coalition

California Health 4 All Coalition

California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance

California Immigration Policy Center

Causa Justa :: Just Cause

Centro Cristiano Roca de Refugio, Perris

Centro del Inmigrante in Riverside

Centro Romero Border Ministries, San Ysidro, CA and Tijuana, BC

Chinese Community United Methodist Church

Christ the King Catholic Church, Pleasant Hill

Christ the Lord Episcopal Church, Pinole

Church of the Good Shepherd, Berkeley

Claremont Congregational United Church of Christ

Claremont School of Theology

Claremont United Methodist Church

Comite Civico Del Valle, Inc.

Concord United Methodist Church

Congregation B’nai Tikvah,

Council of Mexican Federations

County of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission

Covenant Church-Spanish, Riverside

Day Worker Center of Mountain View

Day Workers Center of Pomona

Del Centro Legal Center TODEC, Perris

Drug Policy Alliance

East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy

East Los Angeles Community Corporation

Educational Opportunity Program, University of California, Berkeley

El Buen Pastor, Redwood City

Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy

Fellowship Church of Monrovia

Filipino Migrant Center

First Congregational Church of Berkeley

First Congregational Church United Church of Christ, Perris

First Presbyterian Church, Oakland

First Unitarian Church of Oakland

First United Methodist Church of Alameda

First United Methodist Church of Ontario

Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco

Greater Richmond Interfaith Project

Hearts Leap North Preschool

Hebrew Union College, Los Angles

Hispanics in Philanthropy

Holman United Methodist Church, Los Angeles

Holy Names University Social Justice Forum

Iglesia Fuente de Vida, Perris

Iglesia Pestecostal Eben-Ezer, Perris

Iglesia Presbiteriana Hispana High Street, Oakland

Iglesia Rios de Agua Viva, Rialto

Innerchange Order

Interfaith Center for Worker Justice, San Diego

International Longshoreman’s Union

Intersections International, New York, NY

Jewish Community Relations Council

Justice for Immigrants Campaign-Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino

Justice for Immigrants Coalition of Southern California

Justice Not Jails

Kehilla Community Synagogue

Kensington Unitarian

Khmer Girls in Action

Korean Resource Center

Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance

Lafayette United Methodist Church

Latino Roundtable of Pomona and San Gabriel Valleys

Latino Youth Retreat of the Methodist Western Jurisdiction

Latino/a Roundtable of Pomona and San Gabriel Valley

Los Angeles Filipino American United Church of Christ

Lutheran Office of Public Policy, Sacramento

Mariachi International of Mexico

Martin Luther King March, San Francisco

Mills College

Ministerios Cristianos Rey Jesus, San Bernardino

Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project

Mobilize the Immigrant Vote

Montclair Presbyterian Church, Oakland

Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist (Walnut Creek)

NAACP of Pomona

National Convocation of Jail Ministry Chaplains

New Hope Covenant Church

Newman Center at University of California, Riverside

Northern California-Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ

Notre Dame de Namur University

Oakland Catholic Worker

Office of Hispanic Affairs- Diocese of San Bernardino

Orange County Congregation Community Organization

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, Chino

Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church, San Bernardino

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, Rancho Cucamonga

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Riverside

Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley

PICO California

Pine United Methodist Church

Plymouth United Church of Christ, Oakland

Pomona Economic Opportunity Center

Presbyterian USA Mission and Justice Committee

Rialto United Methodist Church

Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Rancho Cucamonga

Sacred Heart Sisters

Saint Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church, Sun City

Salvadoran Consulate

San Bernardino Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church

San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations

San Francisco State Intervarsity Christian Fellowship

Santa Rosa – VIDA

Second African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles

SHARE Foundation

Sisters of Holy Name of Jesus and Mary

Skyline United Church of Christ

Southern California-Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Los Angeles

St John’s Presbyterian Church, Berkeley

St, Paul’s Episcopal Church, Oakland

St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Oakland

St. John’s Episcopal Church, San Bernardino

St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, Chino