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Know Your Rights: A Resource Guide for Immigrant Accompaniment and Advocacy
In times of heightened uncertainty, our immigrant neighbors need support and accompaniment. The ELCA’s AMMPARO ministry offers critical tools to understand and assert rights during encounters with law enforcement or ICE. This guide includes Red Cards, family preparedness plans, and multilingual resources to help families stay informed and safe.
Civic Engagement Guide: Sacred Crossroads
Use this nonpartisan resource to explore key immigration facts from ELCA Ammparo and reflect on how Christian values compel us to pursue justice, help the oppressed, promote human dignity and human flourishing, and pray for a government that serves all neighbors. 8 pages.
ELCA Advocacy Action Alert: Urge Congress to support migration and refugee programs
Ensuring that refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants have access to supportive services is essential for their successful integration and well-being. Several programs would help achieve greater efficiency in the immigration system, support immigrants and refugees, and address equity and fairness in immigration proceedings.
HCR 2060’s Day at the Senate
On May 22, Autumn joined Arizona Faith Network at the capitol during the Senate’s vote on HCR2060. Sen Hernandez (LD24) even read a letter from a LAMA member! Read more about the action-packed day!
RTS Action Alert 5/22
Join us in opposing a harmful immigration policy that many have dubbed “SB1070 2.0.” We are also opposing another iteration of the Voting Center Ban!
ELCA Social Message: Immigration
The social message on "Immigration" presents basic themes for discernment on questions of immigration that our society is facing. It draws from Scripture and the experience of Lutherans in America as an immigrant church in a country of immigrants.
RTS Action Alert 5/14
Join us in opposing a harmful immigration policy that many have dubbed “SB1070 2.0.” We are also opposing another iteration of the Voting Center Ban!
Action Alert: Oppose HCR2060
Urge your state legislator to oppose this cruel immigration bill before it goes to a vote!
ELCA Advocacy Action Alert: Urge Members to Co-Sponsor the Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act
Read the latest Action Alert from ELCA Advocacy’s Federal Office! Urge our lawmakers to support the Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act!
Advocacy In Action: News From the ELCA Conference of Bishops
The ELCA Conference of Bishops met last week and wrote two letters, advocating for neighbors in need. Our leaders address lawmakers, urging them to support Annunciation House in Texas, and a Ceasefire in Gaza, calling us to join them in defending our neighbors.
LIRS is Now Global Refuge!
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services is becoming Global Refuge! Read more about the name change, and their history of advocacy and service.
ELCA Advocacy Action Alert: Oppose Harmful Changes to Immigration Law in Emergency Funding Negotiations
ELCA Advocacy Action Alert: Opposed the harmful changes to immigration law and the asylum process that are being posed during the funding process!
Hunger Policy Podcast Migration 2021
In this podcast, Giovana Oaxaca, the ELCA’s program director for migration policy, joins Ryan Cumming of ELCA World Hunger to talk about the realities of migration and immigration policy. Learn about who has access to public benefits, what it means to be a “non-citizen” and how policy changes can impact individuals and communities.
LSS-SW: Making Christmas Wishes Come True
LSS-SW seeks Christmas gifts for 100 refugees, asylum-seekers, and Afghan evacuees this year, as well a new queen-sized sheets for isolated older adults.
New poll finds broad support [across political divide] for a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants
Arizona voters overwhelmingly support a pathway to citizenship for some immigrants who meet some conditions for eligibility, according to a poll released September 22.
Will you help welcome Afghans?
From August 17 - September 1, approx. 48,000 Afghan evacuees arrived in the U.S. Thousands more arrived in September. As people called to care for the vulnerable, now is a critical time to advocate to ensure that our new Afghan neighbors can rebuild their lives in safety and peace.
Arizona expects 1,600 Afghan evacuees to arrive through March
The federal government has notified Arizona that it should expect 1,610 Afghan evacuees to arrive through the end of March, according to the state Department of Economic Security.
Arizona communities prepare for arrival of Afghan refugees
State officials, Arizona refugee resettlement agencies and community groups are preparing for the arrival in the coming weeks of thousands of people evacuated last month from Afghanistan.