Asylum Seekers Resource Page
Learn & Take Action
The Jewish community has long advocated for compassionate immigration reform. The situation at the U.S.-Mexico border has reached crisis proportions, with children in detention, separated from their families and denied basic humane conditions. Learn more and take action.
Jewish Community Statements:
- Jewish Council for Public Affairs – JCPA Denounces Inhuman Conditions at the Border
- Conservative/Masorti Movement Expresses Anger at Immigrant Detention Centers
- NCJW: https://www.ncjw.org/act/action/protect-against-immigration-enforcement-raids/
- JTA: Jewish Organizations Condemn Family Separation Policy
- Religious Action Center: Urgency of Now North American Immigrant Justice Campaign
- JCRC Community Consensus Position on Immigration Reform
Take Action/Show Up:
- July 2: Close the Camps protest, Federal Building, noon.
- July 2: HIAS call: “The Jewish Community Responds: On Border and Asylum”
- July 3: Bend the Arc Call
- July 12: Lights for Liberty: Next Friday night, people will be gathering for Lights for Liberty: A Nationwide Vigil to End Human Detention Camps. Because of Shabbat, the JCRC will not be part of any local public action. However, we urge community members to participate in a way that most suits your Shabbat practice – by giving, talking, learning more; at home, from the bima, or at your shabbat table.
- Sign Bend the Arc’s Open Letter from American Jews — #CloseTheCamps
- #NeverAgainAction tool kit
- Volunteer (info from HIAS) — Volunteers are needed at the border and in communities around the country.
- Join a HIAS pro-bono legal delegation to the border
- Volunteer with HIAS as a pro-bono attorney in New York City or the DC Metro area
- Volunteer with HIAS in the New York area or the DC Metro area
- Organize a trip to the border to volunteer, for your synagogue or community.
- Organize a legal delegation to the border, for lawyers from your synagogue or community
- Find an updated list of volunteer and donation needs at the border, from Love Resists
Donate
Donate to organizations on the front lines of the crisis
- Al Otro Lado
- ALDEA – The People’s Justice Center
- Annunciation House
- HOPE Border Institute
- Immigration Justice Campaign
- Immigrant Justice Corps
- Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center
- Mijente
- No More Deaths
- RAICES
- Santa Fe Dreamers Project
- Bail/bond funds: National Immigration Detention Bond Fund, National Bail Fund Network directory
- In-kind donations to support refugees and asylum seekers
- Registry for asylum seekers from Arizona Jews for Justice
- More recommendations, from Texas Tribune
(Thanks to Truah for compiling the above list.)
This list is in process. It does not imply endorsement.
