Most recent advocacies are listed first. Many are ongoing and the dates are dates of posting
Contact info:
Senator Jon Husted 202-224-3353 https://www.husted.senate.gov/
Senator Bernie Moreno 202-224-2315 https://www.moreno.senate.gov/
Representative Mike Turner (202) 225-6465 https://turner.house.gov/contact
Mike Turner represents Montgomery, Greene and the Springfield area of Clark County. For other counties: find your rep and their contact info by entering your zip code at https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
President Donald Trump https://www.45office.com/info/share-your-thoughts
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, DHS Comment Line: 202-282-8495
Ohio Assembly Legislators, enter your address: for Ohio House: https://ohiohouse.gov/ for
Ohio Senate: https://www.ohiosenat e.gov/
Donate to local orgs, view upcoming events, social media links: list at linktr.ee/mvicdayton
General: Letting government leaders know that immigration justice is a priority for their constituents is vital. You do not need to know policy specifics to advocate. Our federal legislators need to be urged to do everything in their power to create pathways to citizenship for all 11 million people living and working here without legal status. Leaders need to hear that we want them to fix our broken immigration system so that community members have a path to legal residence so they can continue contributing as workers, business owners, parents, neighbors, and more. We want less resources in detention, deportation, and home monitoring. We are appalled at the detentions and deportations of people with civil immigration offenses and no criminal offenses. We are horrified at the well-reported inhumane conditions in many detention facilities. We call for Congressional oversight to investigate the ICE and CBP abuse of human rights, including the lack of due process and the racial and language profiling that is used to kidnap people off the streets, including those with legal immigration status and sometimes even U.S. citizens. Call or email government leaders on these points or one of the advocacies below.
May 7 Keep Promises to Afghan Allies: Add your name to urge the U.S. to keep promises made to Afghans who risked their lives and families to aid the U.S. Add your name to a letter to Secretary of State Rubio and DHS Secretary Mullin. The letter opposes their plan to relocate more than a thousand Afghans from Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar to the Democratic Republic of Congo: "Roughly 1,100 Afghans remain at Camp As Sayliyah. More than 460 are children. About 800 are fully vetted and approved U.S. refugees. Approximately 150 are immediate family members of active-duty U.S. servicemembers and Intelligence Community partners." https://afghanevac.org/cas-open-letter/#sign-on
Read the letter at afghanevac.org/cas-open-letter
May 6, Cancel Dayton Flock Surveillance Contract. Please contact the Dayton City Commissioners to urge the City of Dayton to end its contract with Flock Safety, to immediately release the audit logs associated with the city’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) system, and to hold a hearing under oath to determine what happened and when. Your voice matters whether you live in the Dayton City boundaries or not as many of us travel in the city for shopping, civic and cultural events and care about surveillance of ourselves and of all community members. Read more at
https://www.instagram.com/p/DX7tpmaCTt1/?igsh=MWJjaTl0aDhlbGRxeA== and https://www.instagram.com/p/DX-iLpYjwLa/?igsh=OWtnYjN6aXV2OWQw
Commissioner Contact info:
darius.beckham@daytonohio.gov 937-333-3653
matt.joseph@daytonohio.gov 937-333-3590
christopher.shaw@daytonohio.gov 937-333-3657
fairchild.darryl@gmail.com 937-333-3657
shenise.turner-sloss@daytonohio.gov 937-333-3650 (Mayor)
April 25, National Day of Action to Stop Warehouse Detention Expansion: Please urge your members of Congress to oppose any expansion of the immigration detention network, especially the use of mega-warehouses announced early in 2026. Learn more and send your messages at one or both of these links:
Quick: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/reject-the-deportation-and-detention-agenda/?
A tad more time: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urge-senators-and-members-of-congress-to-stop-warehousing-immigrants?
You can also call or directly email legislators using the contact info at the top of this page.
See both the threat and some opposition successes at the ICE Warehouse Tracker map at https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/b0228ccb-6fcf-4ab6-9d9b-41dd53292ec6/page/p_uy4yssvm0d Detention Watch Network says this about the warehouses: “They are industrial-scale operations designed to process human beings like cargo, stripping them of dignity and due process while private prison companies profit.”
April 19, 2026 Stop the proposed change to decades long HUD (Housing and Urban Development) policy that keeps families together. [details deleted as deadline has passed]
April 14, Urgent TPS for Haiti Vote This Week: [Update: the vote passed! Please thank Rep. Mike Turner for crossing party lines and voting yes] Please contact your representative in the U.S. House to urge them to vote yes on HR 1689 to designate Haiti for temporary protective status (TPS) through April, 2029. Use their contact info at the top of this page to call or email or send an email via https://secure.everyaction.com/neTd2a8HHUmPXBFFLI1FXg2 or from Faith In Action via https://secure.faithinactioninternational.org/a/haititps
March 29: Funding Fight. Please let members of the U.S. House know how you feel about their vote on Friday on the month-long fight in Congress over funding for ICE and CBP. More details further down, but in short, contact your representative in the U.S. House, or other other representatives from Ohio in the U.S. House, to express your disappointment if they voted yes to fully fund all of DHS, including ICE and CBP with no reining in of ICE and CBP abuses, OR thank them if they voted no. Yes votes: Rep. Mike Turner (represents Greene & Montgomery Counties and the Springfield area of Clark) and the other nine Republican Ohio representatives. No votes: Rep. Greg Landsman (Warren County and southwards) and the other four Democratic Ohio reps (Joyce Beatty, Shontel Brown, Marcy Kaptur, and Emilia Sykes). Contact info at the top of the page.
More info: The House bill passed 213 to 203 in what has been called a “stunning rebuke” to the Senate, which voted the night before to pass a bill that removed new money for ICE and CBP while funding the other parts of DHS: TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency. The Senate vote was a win for immigration and civil rights advocates because the Democrats responded to citizen advocacy and held the line on no new funding for ICE and CBP without legislative reining in of ICE and CBP abuses. This win is important, but is a first step, because legislation is still needed to rein in ICE and CBP abuses, which continue with funding from last summer’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” Overview: https://rollcall.com/2026/03/27/house-opts-for-stopgap-funding-as-dhs-standoff-deepens/ “Stunning rebuke:” https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5802558-live-updates-trump-dhs-shutdown-tsa-iran/? House vote: https://www.congress.gov/votes/house/119-2/108
March 24: Re-upping this - negotiations are happening today: March 20, 2026 Contact your member of the U.S. House and urge them to fully fund TSA, FEMA and other essential parts of DHS WITHOUT giving more money to out-of-control ICE and CBP for their violent, abusive, actions. Last week, in 24 hours, Senate Republicans blocked five separate bills to fund TSA, FEMA, CISA, the Coast Guard and other DHS functions. More info at https://www.murray.senate.gov/in-24-hours-senate-republicans-block-five-separate-bills-to-fund-tsa-fema-cisa-coast-guard-other-dhs-functions/ Patty Murray is one of the lead Senate negotiators on DHS funding
Feb. 25, 2026 [Deadline 4/25/26 ] Submit one comment to oppose a proposed rule that would bring financial devastation to recent and new asylum seekers. The proposed rule would effectively stop new work permits for new and very recent asylum seekers by putting an indefinite pause on the applications. Furthermore, even if and when the pause is lifted, the time from applying for asylum to when the government must approve the work permit would change under this rule, from six months to one and a half years! It is hard enough for families to wait six months to start working. Click on the green “submit a comment” button at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/23/2026-03595/employment-authorization-reform-for-asylum-applicants To learn more go to: https://asaptogether.org/media/27TKmjutYFJcmxj0WUrwSl/ASAP_One_Pager_Rapid_Response.pdf You can also view already submitted comments by clicking “view posted comments” under the green button at the first link. Please help!
Feb 20, 2026 No more money for ICE and CBP! Tell your senators (again!). Send prepared or your revised message from the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) at https://act.nilc.org/page/94337/action/1?supporter.appealCode=20260220_EG_FundsETT_NILC&ea.url.id=4614758
Feb 18, 2026 Tell Senate leaders Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray to hold firm on negotiations to rein in ICE and CBP through the DHS shutdown. Possible points in your “do not cave” message might include:
https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact 202-224-6542
https://www.murray.senate.gov/write-to-patty/
Feb 10, 2026 Stop ICE and Border Patrol attacks on our communities! Negotiations are happening now. Use this link shared by Detention Watch Network and ACLU to send a prepared message or your revised message. Or directly call or email your three federal reps using info at the links for points to include. Contact info for federal legislators is at the top of this page. Please share with people in other counties and states. https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-ices-attack-our-communities?
Feb. 5, 2026 Nine Day Sprint for Justice, crucial time to contact legislators. Feb. 13 is the deadline for Congressional funding for DHS (Department of Homeland Security). Oppose ICE, Border Patrol and detention abuses by using any or all of the action links below to send messages, learn more, or for suggestions for what to say if you call or email directly (using contact info at the top of this page):
· National Immigration Law Center: https://act.nilc.org/page/93101/action/1
· Detention Watch Network: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urge-congress-to-cut-ice-cbp-funding-no-business-as-usual
· National Immigration Justice Center: https://immigrantjustice.salsalabs.org/stopice-appropriationsjan2026/index.html
· 5calls.org and look for the most recent action on DHS funding
Feb 2, 2026: Oppose dangerous Ohio bill SB 172. Contact your member of the Ohio House urging opposition to SB 172 which has already passed the Ohio Senate. See top of page for contact info. Sample script from Rachel Coyle: Hi. My name is [NAME]. I’m asking [ELECTED OFFICIAL] to oppose SB 172.
Feb 1, 2026 (updated from Jan. 22): : Extend TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for Haitians, Petition. Time is running out as TPS for Haiti is scheduled to end Feb. 3. Join Springfield Speaks petition to Governor Mike DeWine, U.S. Senators Bernie Moreno & Jon Husted, U.S. Reps. Mike Carey & Mike Turner, State Reps. Bernie Willis & Bill Dean, State Sen. Kyle Koehler. Learn more and add your name at
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/springfield-speaks? For even greater impact, call or email Senators Moreno & Husted as well as Representative Mike Turner or your own Rep if you aren’t in Turner’s district. Find your Rep at https://www.house.gov/
Feb 1, 2026: Extend TPS for Haitians, message to your member of the U.S. House, Learn more and send the prepared message or your revision to you member of the U.S. House at https://actionnetwork.org/letters/protect-haitian-tps-stop-the-next-ice-siege/?
January 22, 2026: Contact national corporations strongly connected to Minnesota or to ICE actions in Minnesota. Send messages urged by Ice Out of Minnesota https://www.iceoutnowmn.com/
Target: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-target-ice-out-now/
Home Depot: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-home-depot-ice-out-now/
Enterprise (Car Rental): https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-enterprise-ice-out-now/
Hilton: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-hilton-ice-out-now/
Delta: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-delta-ice-out-now/
Why this matters: "“It is time to suspend the normal order of business to demand immediate cessation of ICE actions in MN, accountability for federal agents who have caused loss of life and abuse to Minnesota residents and call for Congress to immediately intervene.” --- ICE Out of Minnesota.
If we as a country let this continue, not only does the suffering in Minnesota continue, we are opening the door to escalating lawlessness and lack of due process around the country.
[Jan 30 update: On January 30, a significant success was the defeat in the Senate of the bill that would have increased ICE and CBP funding with no significant new restraints or accountability. Instead, the Senate voted to continue existing funding for two weeks. Stay tuned for followup.]
January 24, 2026: Urgent - Tell Senators: Reject the funding increases for ICE and Border Patrol that were passed by the House on Jan 22:
Email bit.ly/noicefunding (Detention Watch Network)
Call or email your senators and senate leaders and make these points:
As your constituent, I urge you to
· Reject the increases in DHS funding passed by the House last week. Unconstrained funding has already enabled reckless immigration enforcement and continues to endanger American communities.
· Demand oversight and hold the Administration accountable for aggressive, unlawful, and dangerous – indeed deadly --enforcement.
· Be sure to include your zip code in your message.
Senator Jon Husted 202-224-3353 https://www.husted.senate.gov/
Senator Bernie Moreno 202-224-2315 https://www.moreno.senate.gov/
Senate Leadership - contact as many as you can. Click on their name to find contact info. https://www.senate.gov/senators/leadership.htm
If you’d like more details about the spending bill: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJoX82QTs1SGF3ZVM_3yus5JaWQ54W9K0NKGp3FoXBI/edit?
Updated above, Feb 1: January 22, 2026: Extend TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for Haitians, Time is running out as TPS for Haiti is scheduled to end Feb. 3. Add your name to Springfield Speaks petition to Governor Mike DeWine, U.S. Senators Bernie Moreno & Jon Husted, U.S. Reps. Mike Carey & Mike Turner, State Reps. Bernie Willis & Bill Dean, State Sen. Kyle Koehler. Learn more and add your name at
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/springfield-speaks? For even greater impact, call or email Senators Moreno & Husted as well as Representative Mike Turner or your own Rep if you aren’t in Turner’s district. Find your Rep at https://www.house.gov/
[Out of date due to action in the senate above, Jan 30. ] Updated Jan 24: the House passed the Homeland Security funding increase last Thursday. It is now more important than ever to contact our senators as requested in this Jan 20 action call: ] January 20, 2026: Stop Blank Checks for ICE and Border Patrol Cruelty! This is a crucial time as bill was advanced this morning! Contact your three federal legislators:
Email bit.ly/noicefunding (Detention Watch Network)
Call or email and make these points:
As your constituent, I urge you to
· Reject any increase in DHS funding. Unconstrained funding has already enabled reckless immigration enforcement and continues to endanger American communities.
· Demand oversight and hold the Administration accountable for aggressive, unlawful, and dangerous – indeed deadly --enforcement.
· Be sure to include your zip code in your message.
Senator Jon Husted 202-224-3353 https://www.husted.senate.gov/
Senator Bernie Moreno 202-224-2315 https://www.moreno.senate.gov/
Representative Mike Turner (202) 225-6465 https://turner.house.gov/contact
If you’d like more details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJoX82QTs1SGF3ZVM_3yus5JaWQ54W9K0NKGp3FoXBI/edit?
January 11, 2026: Amplify and reinforce Friday’s letter to Congress: Please contact your members of Congress (contact info at the top of this page) and make some of the following points that are most important to you. Add any personal connections or reasons for urging these actions. These points are included in a Jan 9 letter to Congress spearheaded by the ACLU, National Immigration Law Center, National Immigrant Justice Center, United We Dream and Indivisible and signed by more than 400 organizations.
· Congress must rein in the violence and lawlessness endangering our communities now
· Members of Congress should demand that any appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security restrains and requires accountability from immigration enforcement agencies.
· Specifically: Members should refuse to vote for any FY2026 appropriations bill that includes increased funding for ICE or Border Patrol, including funds for detention. They should refuse to vote for any appropriations bill for DHS beyond January 30 unless it:
o Strengthens restrictions on ICE and Border Patrol’s ability to conduct dragnet arrest operations and target people based on their race, language or accent, place of employment, or location at the time of the apprehension;
o Ends border patrol deployment to our cities and rejects its ever-expanding mandate in immigration enforcement; and
o Limits DHS's reprogramming and transfer authority, including specifically preventing reprogramming and transferring funds for detention
[Out of date due to Jan 30 vote] January 7, 2026: Call to action to oppose even more beds for ICE detention: Use the NILC link, Detention Watch links and/or info in them to contact federal legislators to urge them to reject proposals to add more ICE beds: https://act.nilc.org/page/92564/action/1? and/or https://actionnetwork.org/letters/rejecticefunding?
January 6, 2026 ACLU Nationwide Call to Action: Use their link or info in it to contact federal legislators to urge support for the PROTECT Immigration Act to limit the federal government's ability to enlist local and state police departments to enforce immigration law. Our own Ohio legislators may not agree, but they need to know their constituents care about the mistreatment of our community members. Furthermore, the total number of action participants can be used by the ACLU to influence the legislators who are persuadable. https://action.aclu.org/send-message/end-ices-dangerous-287g-program
Dec. 4, 2025 Act on the Bipartisan Dream Act Re-Introduced on Dec. 4! There is an urgent need for this legislation to replace and expand DACA. DACA was a limited executive action and has been attacked by the Trump administration - freezing new applications and often illegally ignoring DACA protections. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/send-a-letter-demand-your-senators-co-sponsor-the-dream-act/? You can also directly contact our senators (contact info at the top of this page) . If you leave a voicemail, be sure to include your name, address and zip.
November 27, 2025 Help keep Ohioan and new father Mohan from being deported. Learn more and send a message https://secure.ngpvan.com/PY_Kk3ySjEaOB_7rcIY6fw2 Bhutanese-Nepali refugee Mohan Karki is in danger of being deported even though he has a habeas court hearing next week.
November 24 Build on last Saturday's action at Home Depot in California by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and add your name to their petition to Home Depot leadership to
*Publicly condemn ICE raids on its property
*Prohibit federal immigration enforcement from using its parking lots to target day laborers
*Commit to creating safe, welcoming spaces for all people regardless of status
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-home-depot-get-ice-out-now/
November 20, 2025: URGENT: Please ask Governor DeWine to veto the hastily passed bill SB 293. Among its many harmful provisions is one that would remove Ohioans from the voting rolls WITHOUT NOTIFICATION TO THEM if their citizenship is questioned due to a database mistake. SB 293 would remove the existing protections for notification and for common sense remediation.
Send the prepared message or your revision at: : https://act.commoncause.org/letters/urgent-tell-gov-dewine-to-protect-voting-and-veto-sb293/?
Call: leave a message urging Governor Dewine to veto SB 293. Governor DeWine’s office at - 614-644-4357; Governor DeWine’s Policy Director at - 614-644-0871; Legislative Affairs Director at - 614-466-2828 Thanks to all who advocated against HB 42, the bill requiring reporting of immigration status data in schools and other agencies. After failing to advance in committee on Tuesday, it will likely not be voted on in 2025.
November 17, 2025: Support Butler County: ICE Out! Attend the Butler County Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 9:30 am – 11:30 am, 315 High St., Hamilton, 45011 to pack the room in solidarity with Butler County residents who will speak against ICE detention at the Butler County Jail. Whether you attend the Commissioners meeting or not, attend a short protest outside the building after the meeting, 11:30 am to noon.
November 16, 2025 Take action to stop harmful Ohio bill HB 42 which would require Ohio agencies, including schools to collect and report immigration and citizenship information. Submit testimony by 2:15 pm on Monday Nov. 17 and/or attend the hearing in Columbus at 2:15 pm on Tuesday, Nov 18. Details from Ignite Peace Cincinnati at https://mailchi.mp/ignitepeace/hb42columbus?e=67c97203b8 You can also contact the members of the Ohio House Government Oversight Committee to tell them to not advance HB 42. Find the Committee members and their contact info at https://www.ohiohouse.gov/committees/government-oversight
November 13, 2025 Urge members of Congress to push the administration to reverse course and resettle the most at-risk refugees from around the world rather than “prioritize Afrikaner resettlement, over and above Syrian and Sudanese families fleeing brutal regimes and war zones, Congolese and Eritrean survivors of rape and ethnic violence, and Afghan allies promised safety after risking their lives alongside U.S.forces.” More information and action at
November 6, 2025 Tell DHS to stop the detentions and deportations. Add your name to the petition to call on the Department of Homeland Security to stop wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on immigrant detention and deportation and to tell DHS Secretary Noem that immigrants make our communities stronger. American Friends Service petition at https://afsc.org/action/tell-dhs-immigrants-make-our-communities-stronger?
October 28, 2025 “ICE: Stop Terrorizing Children. Send the ACLU’s message or your revision to your three federal legislators and DHS Secretary Noem, or directly contact them using contact info at the top of this page and at https://action.aclu.org/send-message/ice-stop-terrorizing-children?
October 7, 2025. Keep Ohio National Guard out of our cities. Call or email Ohio National Guard Community Relations Officer Carl Higginbotham to ask that the Ohio National Guard not be sent to Ohio cities. 614-336-7002 or Carl.N.Higginbotham.civ@army.mil Read more at https://www.ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/10/6/three-days-of-action?f Watch and share the video from Unite 4 Veterans, “The National Guard and ICE: Know the Difference,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjo_tQsKSyQ (If you are shy about calling, know that you will almost certainly just leave a voicemail)
September 27: Ask federal legislators to support the Enduring Welcome Act. More info and send an email at: https://www.jrsusa.org/advocacy-enduring-welcome/ For an even more effective communication, directly contact your legislator using the email addresses or phone numbers at the top of this page.
September 16: Stop Detention Expansion. Use Detention Watch Network’s (DWN) link to send their message or your revision to your legislators. Even more impactful is to use the information from DWN to contact the legislators with a phone call or personal email (contact info at top of this page). https://actionnetwork.org/letters/464bfff89caa6e21cda6427cbcea52b9
September 14: Please call or send ACLU’s message to your senators to urge them to vote no on HR 3486 which would drastically increase prison time, including to life sentences for some nonviolent offenses by immigrants. Per the ACLU, this bill “would impose extreme prison sentences on people seeking asylum, teenagers, and people trying to reunite with their families – not for violent conduct, but for the manner in which they entered the U.S.” More info and send the message at https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-congress-no-life-sentences-immigration? You can also use the email addresses at the top of this page to send an even more effective personal email. You can contact Rep. Mike Turner to let him know you are deeply disappointed in his recent yes vote on HR 3486.
[Sept 9: Urge no vote on HR 3486 Vote in U.S. House - replaced by Sept 14 item above because HR 3486 passed the House on Sept. 11]
September 7, Please sign the petition to release this Dayton father who was recently and unjustifiably put in immigration detention in Butler County Jail. Thank you. https://www.change.org/p/release-my-stepdad-andres-from-butler-county-jail?
August 26: Urge Congress to provide a path to citizenship for immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as youth. The first DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) application was accepted 13 years ago on Aug. 15, 2012. This executive action program has been immensely successful, allowing DACA recipients to come out of the shadows to work, obtain driver’s licenses, attend college, raise families, and volunteer in their communities. DACA recipients contribute $648 billion to the U.S. economy. Over 250,000 U.S. citizen children have a parent with DACA. The program is under attack by the current administration at a time when DACA needs expansion, not retrenchment. DACA is not processing any new applications and it has never applied to those who arrived as children after 2012. The current administration is dismantling pieces of DACA. For example, effective August 25, 2025, DACA recipients in 19 states, including Ohio, can no longer purchase health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, an opportunity that was made available in 2024. Send the National Immigration Law Center’s prepared message or your revision at https://act.nilc.org/page/69029/action/1?
August 21: Act to Stop Increasing Authoritarian Takeover: The military “takeover” of DC is a huge threat to all of us, not just those in DC, but all of us because it represents the executive branch “seeing” what they can get away with. The legal component of the takeover comes from a federal law that allows declaration of a 30-day state of emergency in DC. The president has said he will ask Congress to act to extend beyond the 30 days. Please let your federal legislators know they must not extend: send the prepared or revised version of the recently updated message at https://freedcproject.org/allies You might revise to emphasize the ask in that message to “support the termination resolution introduced by Rep. Jamie Raskin and Senator Chris Van Hollen, and reject any bill attempting to extend the length of time that Trump is allowed to redirect MPD resources.” In addition, consider strengthening your request by calling one or all three of your federal legislators. Finally, you can use ACLU Ohio’s link to urge Governor DeWine to bring Ohio National Guard troops home from DC: https://action.aclu.org/send-message/gov-dewine-pull-ohio-national-guard-troops-out-dc
August 15: Add your name in support of the letter from Ohio clergy to Governor DeWine urging him to use his authority to secure the release of Ayman Soliman and ensure restoration of his asylum status. Ayman Soliman is a former Cincinnati Children's Hospital chaplain whose asylum status was unjustly taken away. He is now in immigration detention at Butler County Jail and is in danger of being deported to Egypt where he would be in danger as was determined when he was granted asylum . Petition organizers ask that only Ohioans sign. Only your name and email are required; the form was originally for clergy and you can leave “title” and “institution” blank or just put in town and zip code in those fields. Sign on form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfceDF4GovD97WIX3znLLXO3gu-H3cj5sK5B1WuxIEo3meKOA/viewform Read the letter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12rhts9DykJ8CC-86omW89wiYalWj9YbpYsouYu6lNSo/edit?
August 13: Add your name to the petition to Indiana legislators to stand against the ICE Expansion at Camp Atterbury and the Miami Correctional Facility at the former Grissom Air Force base. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScP4diNjWYu91eHQVGjAPRrfcdSlTB8DxR0qpXfsYj3AoPCPg/viewform
Aug. 4: Urge Congress to stop the Trump administration from using the military to detain immigrants. This is in response to the reported plan to more widely deploy National Guard troops to communities and ICE detention centers. Use ACLU’s link to learn more and to send their prepared message or your revision of it https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-congress-no-troops-our-streets?
Aug. 2: Use ACLU’s link to email your three federal legislators to urge them to support the Visible Act to require federal agents to wear visible ID with their agency, name or badge number, and to ban ski masks and other non-medical face coverings. Alternatively, you can call them (contact info at top of this page). We must keep telling them in this and other ways that we are not ok with the current administrations escalating attacks on immigrants. https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-congress-stop-masked-agents?
July 24: contact Ohio Senator Casey Weinstein and U.S. Representative Emilia Sykes and thank them for their efforts to assist their constituent Rami and his family. Rami is a Palestinian American now in immigration detention in Batavia, NY.
Rep. Emilia Sykes: DC: (202) 225-6265, Akron: (330) 400-5350,
Sen. Casey Weinstein (614) 466-7041 or weinstein@ohiosenate.gov
From Senator Weinstein: "Rami, a Palestinian American who was on an authorized employment program for over 2 decades, wrote this letter to his family this week from an ICE detention facility.
He paid his taxes. Even for programs like social security and Medicare that he wasn’t entitled to receive - and he never got into trouble. He was and is a valued member of our community. A wonderful and loving husband and father. When he attempted to self-deport, he was detained."
July 17: Sign the petition for the release of Cincinnati Iman Ayman Soliman from detention. He followed all the rules and should be free! Advocacy matters: it has led to U.S. Congress Greg Landsman acting: he announced that he secured an agreement from ICE to keep Ayman in Ohio until his next immigration court appointment. https://www.change.org/p/free-ayman-soliman-from-ice-detainment
July 14: Use ACLU’s link to email your three federal legislators to urge them to prevent federal funds from being used for the horrendous Everglades/”Alligator” detention center until it is shut down .https://action.aclu.org/send-message/shut-down-alligator-alcatraz? (Some advocates ask that it be called Everglades detention center or Everglades concentration camp or Alligator Auschwitz. These advocates point out that because Alcatraz was a prison, using “Alcatraz” implies that the people held at the Everglades camp are imprisoned for crimes, but none held there have been sentenced to be there and the majority have not committed crimes but are there because of allegations of civil violation of the U.S. immigration system.
July 10: Besides our July 9 info below, here are other ways to act to stop the unjust deportation of Cincinnati Imam Ayman Soliman: Donate at https://secure.givelively.org/donate/ohio-immigrant-alliance/free-ayman-now More, including sending a message to Cincinnati Children’s hospital at : https://www.yusraorganizing.org/free-imam-ayman
July 9: Please contact government officials to urge them to intercede in the case of Imam Ayman Soliman. Imam Ayman is a valued and respected member of the Cincinnati community who was granted asylum seven years ago. Several months ago his asylum status was revoked with no explanation, after which his work permit was rescinded. On Wednesday July 9, he was detained by ICE in Blue Ash. For the same reasons he was granted asylum, he will not be safe if he were to be deported to Egypt, his birthplace. Here is a sample script for phone calls which can be adapted for written messages.
Hi, my name is [Your Name], and I live in [City or ZIP Code]. I’m calling to express urgent concern about the deportation proceedings against Imam Ayman, a deeply respected religious leader and community figure in Cincinnati.
Imam Ayman was granted asylum years ago and has followed every rule—he has no criminal record and has given so much to this community, including serving as the first official Islamic chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
A few months ago, his asylum was suddenly revoked with no explanation. Then his work permit was revoked and on July 9 he was detained by ICE. If he’s deported to Egypt, he faces serious danger, even death, due to his political activism.
This is not just a legal issue—it’s a moral one. Our community stands behind Imam Ayman, and we’re asking [Official’s Name] to urgently step in, advocate for his case, and prevent this injustice from moving forward.
Please take immediate action to help. Thank you.
Senator Bernie Moreno DC:202-224-2315; Cincinnati: 513-684-1021
Written message: https://www.moreno.senate.gov/contact
Senator Jon Husted DC: 202-224-3353; Middletown: 513-318-1100
Written message: https://www.husted.senate.gov/contact-jon
Representative Greg Landsman DC 202-225-2216; Cincinnati: 513-810-7988
Email: greg.landsman@cincinnati-oh.gov
Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval 513-352-3250 Email: : mayor.aftab@cincinnati-oh.gov
July 9: Please contact our federal legislators to express deep disappointment that they voted for the Reconciliation Budget “Big Not-Beautiful” Bill. The votes were close but our own legislators were part of the slight majority that supported this horrible bill. Please contact our legislators with a message like: “I am deeply disappointed that you voted for the budget reconciliation bill. You put greed and immigrant scapegoating over the well-being of your constituents. Your yes vote put money directly into the pockets of the wealthiest Americans and the immigration and surveillance industrial complex while stripping healthcare, educational resources, and clean air and water from the rest of us, significantly increasing the national debt for no good reason.” And much appreciation to all who contacted our legislators in opposition.
Senator Jon Husted 202-224-3353 https://www.husted.senate.gov/
Senator Bernie Moreno 202-224-2315 https://www.moreno.senate.gov/
Montgomery and Greene Counties: Representative Mike Turner 202-225-6465 https://turner.house.gov/contact Other counties: find your rep at https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
[Expired] July 1: After the horrendous, outrageous "big not-beautiful" budget bill passed the senate today, here is the first thing you can do. It may not stop the bill but it is important to say NO! There were a few minor but important victories as 3 anti-immigrant amendments did not succeed. https://immigrationjustice.quorum.us/campaign/132339/
[Expired] June 30: Tonight: Email Senator Moreno and urge him to vote no on the Lee amendment 2546 to HR 1, the “Big Not-Beautiful” Reconciliation Budget Bill. https://www.moreno.senate.gov/ This amendment would deny access to federal financial aid for lawfully present students, including refugees, asylees, and survivors of domestic violence and trafficking. Federal financial aid enables thousands of legal immigrants access to post-secondary education enabling them to contribute to their communities and our economy.
Two other anti-immigrant amendments have already been voted down tonight! (Blackburn 2401 which would have taken away the 90 day period currently allowed by Medicaid for people to prove their citizenship or eligible immigration status. And Conyn 2705 which would have punished states that provide certain healthcare benefits to some immigrant survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual assault.
[Expired] June 27: Urgent: Tell our Ohio senators to vote no on the budget reconciliation bill. Contact info is at the top of this page. Call Senator Husted if you only have time for one call. Here are several great messaging options for info and to send a written message but call if you can.:
https://act.amnestyusa.org/page/167629/action/1?
https://fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/124908/
https://immigrantjustice.salsalabs.org/budget-reconciliation-feb2025/index.html
Message suggested by National Immigration Law Center: "Hello, my name is __________. I am a constituent from zip code ______________I urge Senator Husted [or Moreno] to vote no on the reconciliation bill. I am very concerned about ICE's action in Ohio and elsewhere and I don't want my tax dollars going to separate immigrant families. I urge the Senator to put our communities' well-being first and vote no."
June 23: Please send a message to your Ohio House member and your Ohio senator to oppose the anti-immigrant bills Ohio HB1/SB188. Learn more and send a message at : : https://actionnetwork.org/letters/say-no-to-hb1-sb88
Rally in Columbus! Tues., June 24, 10 am - 12 pm, Ohio State House, Veterans Plaza near the flag poles, 1 Capitol Sq, Columbus, OH 43215
June 23: Unfortunately Ohio SB 172 passed the Senate on June 18 and next goes to the Ohio House. Please contact your member of the Ohio House to urge opposition to Ohio SB 172. Oppose Ohio SB 172, draconian make-Ohio-a-police state bill. SB 172 would require all public officials to allow all immigration-related arrests with or without a warrant, even if the person is only “suspected” of being undocumented. SB 172 throws due process out the window and opens the door to enormous racial and language profiling by allowing arrest if the person is only suspected of being undocumented! In addition to the harm to those targeted, it would make everyone less safe as people who might be profiled will be afraid to report crimes, to testify in court, to access health care, etc.
Read more about SB 172 at https://www.mahoningmatters.com/news/state/article307528566.html
https://ohioimmigrant.org/2025/06/17/oppose-sb-172-because-ohio-is-home-for-all-of-us/? and
Replaced by June 17 update, above. June 9 (June 9 action was to call the Senate Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, & Public Safety Committee members to oppose SB 72.
Updated, June 9 Add your name to the petition we shared on May 29 to cease disappearances and cease ignoring due process constitutional rights for all, non citizens and citizens alike. https://tinyurl.com/hrc-andry Join the national June Pride action with focus on Free Andry, a gay make-up artist who entered the country legally as an asylum seeker and with no criminal record. ICE disappeared him to the infamous El Salvador prison. Sign and social media ideas at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jutj1Pi9lV_Gxd-Mfj0m9R_rX0N-cHPU]
Expired: Join Us on Sunday, June 8, 6 pm. Rally to Protect Our Immigrant Community, outside the Butler County Jail where about 200 community members are in immigrant detention. 705 Hanover St., Hamilton, https://www.instagram.com/p/DKYMw23O68h/ ]
June 5 Oppose Ohio HB 42 which would turn every school, hospital, and government agency into a citizenship checkpoint by requiring all of them to ask and report immigration status of all they serve. This wastes the time of public employees and our taxpayer money. It will lead to racial and language profiling and discourage people from accessing healthcare and school. Send a message to relevant committee members and your own rep at Honesty For Ohio Education’s link: https://secure.everyaction.com/HqqYbVGvaUy3EmOGxCQouA2?
May & June There are dangerous Ohio bills proposed. Great info and actions at “bill tracker” at OHAgainstExtremism.org including a section “attacks on immigrants.”
Updated above, June 9, May 29, 2025 Act against disappearances and abductions! Please add your name to Human Rights Watch’s petition to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to cease wrongful abductions and return those abducted, and to honor the constitutional rights of all including foreign national residents. https://act.hrc.org/page/169520/petition/1?
[Expired] May 29, 2025 Use the ACLU’s link to urge our members of the U.S. House and Senate to reject any legislation that fuels the abusive ICE detention, including the reconciliation budget bill now under consideration by the Senate. Add power to your advocacy by calling or emailing our two senators (contact info at the top of this page) with a similar message.
https://action.aclu.org/send-message/shut-down-ice-detention-machine?
[Expired] May 22, 2025 Urge our senators to oppose the reconciliation budget bill passed by the House today. It cuts Medicaid, SNAP, and other human services in order to pay for hugely ramped up detentions and deportations and tax cuts for the wealthy. Get talking points for phone calls and/or send a written message using the National Immigration Law Center link at: https://act.nilc.org/page/83578/action/1? Direct contact info for our Ohio senators are at the top of this page.
May 19, 2025 Oppose Ohio HB 1 and SB 88 bills for discriminatory land ownership based on national origin. This bill would make it illegal for people from certain countries to own land in most locations in Ohio. Learn more and/or send a message of opposition to members of the Ohio House Safety Committee which meets using OPAWL’s link here and/or urge Committee Chair Cindy Abrams to not pass the bill out of committee: (614) 466-9091 Rep29@OhioHouse.gov.
[Expired] May 14, 2025 Please contact your three federal legislators to say no to amped up funding for attacks on immigrants, no to extending and increasing tax cuts for the wealthy, and no to paying for these by cutting Medicaid, SNAP, Head Start, Medicare and other human services. Most effective is to call or email using the contact info at the top of this page, or, if you need a quicker way, send a prepared or your revised message at: https://act.nilc.org/page/79423/action/1?
The reconciliation budget currently has $150 billion in attacks on immigrants through funding forced removals, disappearances, detentions, surveillance, and more. If passed, much of the funds would end up in contracts with private companies to build a surveillance and uber militarized state that would be used against immigrants, those who are profiled by race and language, and eventually against the general population. Read more at “What’s in Republican’s Reconciliation Bill,--and What $150 Billion Could Fund Instead” https://substack.com/home/post/p-163232646
April 29, 2025 Defend the constitutional balance of powers by telling our three federal legislators "Hands Off!" the judiciary and urge them to oppose three proposed bills that would undermine judicial independence and/or shield executive officials from accountability: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/send-a-message-to-your-member-of-congress-2
April 27, 2025. Please add your name to Public Citizen’s petition against the Trump administration's use of intimidation and public attacks on judges by the extraordinary FBI handcuffing Milwaukee judge Hannah Dugan in the Milwaukee Courthouse parking lot instead of using normal methods to pursue alleged judicial misconduct. Read more and sign at https://act.citizen.org/page/82427/petition/1 Add your name to a message of support to Judge Dugan here: https://rootsaction.org/trump-arresting-judges
April 25 Use ACLU Ohio’s link to oppose the dangerous and extreme Ohio HB 26 which would require all Ohio law enforcement agencies to become part of immigration enforcement and “to not only join 287(g), but assist in any and all of President Trump’s inhumane, anti-immigrant agenda by assisting in mass deportations.” Use the link to send a message to the members of the Ohio Public House Safety Committee which held the first HB 26 hearing on April 29: https://action.aclu.org/send-message/reject-house-bill-26-ohio%E2%80%99s-anti-immigrant-bill? . Follow up strong by phoning the committee members: https://ohiohouse.gov/committees/public-safety (Click on each member to get their contact info)
Learn more about the issue of state and local law enforcement undertaking immigration enforcement and about 287(g) programs at https://www.acluohio.org/en/press-releases/aclu-ohio-ohio-immigrant-alliance-and-other-organizations-urge-local-sheriffs-reject
[Updated] April 23, Please add your name to the petition at wearecasa.org/justice4kilmar to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia home from jail in Tennessee after sending him to foreign prison in El Salvador. This is about more than Kilmar. The petition notes that Kilmar’s is only one example of many of how ICE operates without regard for due process, court authority, or human dignity. The U.S. is using foreign prisons to avoid accountability. Demand justice: (The petition goes to President Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and our federal legislators)
[Expired] April 15, Tell federal legislators to oppose $45 billion in new immigration enforcement spending. Action link from a coalition of major advocate orgs at : bit.ly/BlockICE
[Expired], April 9, DHS Registration “Show me your papers” Rule, Submit a comment by 11:59 pm on Friday, April 11 to oppose this terrible rule. Click on the green submit button at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/12/2025-03944/alien-registration-form-and-evidence-of-registration#open-comment?
See April 3 advocacy below for more info on reasons to oppose this rule and for adding your name to a petition to oppose the rule.
Expired, April 3, 2025 Federal Budget Fight – The Senate may vote in the next few days. Please contact our two senators: with this or similar message: As your constituent, I urge you to vote NO on the proposed budget resolution. It provides large amounts of new funding for mass deportation, detention, and a militarized border, while imposing spending limits that would result in cuts to vital human services, such as Medicaid and food assistance. The vast majority of Americans do not want increased deportations and family separations. Instead, Americans want a functional immigration system that allows immigrant workers, community members, and their families to obtain legal status and continue to contribute to their communities, especially in Ohio where the immigrant work force is vital to our economy. Learn more at https://hubhighlights.substack.com/p/the-budget-fight-is-back-and-more
Expired, April 3, 2025 (updated from March 27) Registration Rule. Please add your name by April 10 to the National Immigration Law Center’s petition at https://act.nilc.org/page/81021/petition/1? to oppose the Department of Homeland Security ‘s (DHS) new rule, telling certain immigrants to “register” with the U.S. government or face criminal charges or detention and deportation. It applies to some “undocumented immigrants” and not other “undocumented immigrants.” “It's a clear attempt to entrap people and target them for deportation. “It would work hand in hand with the ongoing process of the current administration as it creates more undocumented people by changing the rules on people with documentation (such as ending CHNV humanitarian parole, ending various TPS (Temporary Protected Statuses), and rescinding work permissions).
[Expired] March 27, 2025 Please go to https://act.ayannapressley.com/call/demand-rumeysa-ozturks-freedom/? to call Mike Turner (or your U.S. Rep.) to urge that Reps do everything in their power to bring about the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student legally in the U.S. and accused of no crime. Ask Congress to stop this escalation of attacks on immigrants, free speech, and due process. We must speak out now; the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk is only the tip of the iceberg as Secretary of State Rubio has indicated they have are revoking visas of at least 300 students: https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5218016-rubio-300-foreign-student-visas-trump-ice-immigration/?
March 27, 2025 updated and reposted above on April 3 re “registration rule” This rule will go into effect on April 11, but the government is accepting public comments now.
March 22, 2025. Please go to tinyurl.com/protect-kids to quickly send a message to your 3 federal legislators urging them to reinstate the program to provide legal representation to unaccompanied children. This near elimination of this program by the administration is indefensible, unconscionable, and cruel, and endangers children. Learn more at immdef.org/blog/ucpcontract
Expired, CR already passed, March 12, 2025. Budget, CR (Continuing Resolution): National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and Detention Watch Network (DWN) are leading an action alert to raise opposition against this CR and the funding increases for detention and deportation:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-funding-for-trumps-mass-detention-and-deportations-5
[Expired] March 10, 2025. Protect due process and freedom of speech call for freeing a green card holder who was illegally detained by ICE. Add your name at bit.ly/freehimnow (message to many at DHS and at Columbia). You can also send a message at https://action.cair.com/a/free-mahmoud-khalil? (message to your three federal legislators and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.)
March 3, 2025: HR 32. Contact U.S. House members and urge them to oppose HR 32, the mis-named "Defend Our Cities Act” which would defund jurisdictions with certain protections for immigrants. Dangerous to our communities AND a dangerous general precedent of Congress using laws to punish local jurisdictions. Some have called it the Sanctuary City Retribution Act. For Greene & Montgomery counties: call Mike Turner at (202) 225-6465. ACLU call tool with suggested "script" at https://action.aclu.org/signup/no-attacks-on-sanctuary-cities? Calls are most effective, but you can also send a prepared written message, or your revision of it, at the NILC (National Immigration Law Center) email tool: https://act.nilc.org/page/79052/action/1?
Though you may not be their constituent, please consider also calling one or more of the three U.S. House members from Ohio who may still be on the fence on HR 32. Call them to urge a no vote on HR 32. Share this with friends in their districts.
Rep. Landsman's district includes part of Hamilton County which has some sanctuary protections.
Contact info: Rep. Greg Landsman: DC: 202-225-2216; Lebanon: 513-409-6188; Cincinnati: 513-81-7988 for email: https://landsman.house.gov/contact (email form may only allow residents of the district)
Rep. Marcy Kaptur: DC: 202-225-4146; Toledo: 419- 259-7500 for email: https://kaptur.house.gov/address_authentication (email form may only allow residents of the district)
Rep. Emilia Sykes: DC: (202) 225-6265, Akron: (330) 400-5350, for email: https://sykes.house.gov/contact/email-me (only allows residents of the district).
(Two other U.S. Reps from Ohio, Joyce Beatty and Shontel Brown, have a record of supporting immigrant justice and can be thanked for that.)
February 25, 2025, Refugee Freeze: Advocacy request is to build on today’s successful but temporary court case to block the Trump administration’s indefinite refugee ban and funding freeze. Take action at bit.ly/mvicrefugee This link has buttons to call and to email; it also includes talking points and suggested script. The main message is I “urge the Trump administration to abide by recent court orders and immediately resume refugee resettlement.”
More details: The judge stated the executive order"has crossed the line from permissible discretionary action to effective nullification of congressional will." “It is imperative that the Trump administration hears our calls to swiftly respond to court orders and immediately resume refugee resettlement and reimbursements for key refugee accounts.”
Expired, see April 3 update. February 25, 2025, Budget Reconciliation Resolutions – No Stepped Up Detention and Deportation……
Feb 18, 2025: Updated above on March 3. Contact your U.S. House member and urge them to oppose HR 32, the mis-named "Defend Our Cities Act." Immigration advocates have called it the Sanctuary City Retribution Act. ACLU call tool with suggested "script" at https://action.aclu.org/signup/no-attacks-on-sanctuary-cities? Calls are most effective, but you can also send a prepared written message, or your revision of it, at the NILC (National Immigration Law Center) email tool: https://act.nilc.org/page/79052/action/1?
Though you may not be their constituent, please consider calling one or more of the three U.S. House members from Ohio who may still be on the fence on HR 32. Call them to urge a no vote on HR 32. Rep. Landsman's district includes part of Hamilton County which has some sanctuary protections.
Contact info: Rep. Greg Landsman: DC: 202-225-2216; Lebanon: 513-409-6188; Cincinnati: 513-81-7988 for email: https://landsman.house.gov/contact (email form may only allow residents of the district)
Rep. Marcy Kaptur: DC: 202-225-4146; Toledo: 419- 259-7500 for email: https://kaptur.house.gov/address_authentication (email form may only allow residents of the district)
Rep. Emilia Sykes: DC: (202) 225-6265, Akron: (330) 400-5350, for email: https://sykes.house.gov/contact/email-me (only allows residents of the district).
(Two other U.S. Reps from Ohio, Joyce Beatty and Shontel Brown, have a record of supporting immigrant justice and can be thanked for that.)
(The original Feb 13, 2025 advocacy to senators is replaced by the Feb 25 budget advocacy above)
See 4/25 update. February 9, 2025: Oppose Ohio HB 26
February 3, 2025: Sign the letter as an individual at bit.ly/OhioStandsWithImmigrants The letter asks local officials to affirm their commitment to making safe places for all immigrants to live, work, learn, and thrive. Read the letter to learn about the many ways cities, counties, villages and townships can make their jurisdictions safe or less safe. There is a separate link for organizations and faith communities to sign the letter. If your organization or faith community would like to sign email us at ImmigrationDayton@gmail.com
January 29, 2025 Use this link to send a prepared message (or your revision) to your three federal legislators to oppose the Trump administration’s executive orders targeting newcomers and his recent refugee ban. Learn more and send a message at https://bit.ly/daytonopposes
Expired, Laken Riley became law. January 8, 2025. Please contact Senators Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobuchar and urge them to vote no on the Laken Riley Act. https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/message-chuck 202-224-6542 and https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-amy 202- 224-5641. From the Immigration Justice Campaign: “If this bill passes, it would:
Expired, December 4, 2024 Please contact President Biden to amplify and support the Dec 4 letter sent to him from Senators Cortez Masto (D-NV), Lujan (D-NM) and Padilla (D-CA). Sample message which you can use or personalize (link to send a message to President Biden is at the top of this page)
I urge you to use the tools at your disposal to protect our many valued community members with temporary or no authorized immigration status. Please heed the letter you received from Senators Cortez Masto, Lujan and Padilla. Please: (1) Grant and extend TPS for Ecuador, Nicaragua and El Savador, (2) Expedite DACA renewals and advance parole requests. (3) Expand legal pathways for DACA recipients including through the H1-B program.
Read more at https://americasvoice.org/press_releases/three-latino-senators-call-for-biden-administration-to-step-up-for-dreamers-and-tps-holders-with-remaining-weeks-in-office/ and https://theimmigrationhub.org/press/latino-senators-urge-president-biden-to-enact-lasting-protections-for-immigrant-communities/
November 25, 2024 Please urge the Biden administration to issue a new TPS designation for Nicaragua. Many Nicaraguans in the U.S. are at risk of losing legal status and becoming vulnerable to deportation when their parole terms expire. Contact President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas at links at the top of this page. You might also urge for expansion of TPS for Ecuador and Venezuela. You can read more about TPS for Nicaragua specifically at https://www.uusc.org/biden-has-60-days-to-protect-immigrant-communities/
November 18, 2024 Please join the ACLU to urge Congress to take steps to prevent Donald Trump from having access to resources he will need to carry out his mass deportation plans. https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-mass-deportations?
November 8, 2024: Please check back in a few days. There are immigrant justice groups who have been planning for the eventuality of a Trump second term and we will be sharing some of their advocacies soon.
September 23, 2024 Amplify the efforts of farmworkers visiting Dayton and Cincinnati - contact Kroger to urge them to join the Fair Food Program protects farmworkers from abuse. Already in the Fair Food Program are large produce buyers Walmart, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Subway, McDonalds, Burger King and more. https://linktr.ee/krogerdayofaction
September 18, 2024 Donate as you are able to these recommended organizations supporting the Springfield community, especially Haitian community members, as they cope with the effects of lies, hate, and racism.
· High Priority - Haitian Community Help and Support Center: https://tinyurl.com/DonateHaitianCenter
· High Priority - Springfield District Council of St Vincent de Paul https://www.svdpspfld.org/services/donate-2/ We suggest a "general donation"
Additional Options, listed alphabetically:
· Advocates for Basic Legal Equality – ABLE ablelaw.org/immigration-donate
· Clark County Literacy Coalition https://www.clarkcountyliteracy.org/
· Haitian Bridge Alliance https://haitianbridgealliance.org/donate-button/
· Ohio Immigrant Alliance https://bit.ly/4eqQ1gW
· Rocking Horse Community Health Center https://www.rockinghorsecenter.org/ We suggest one of these designations: Women's Health/Prenatal Services; Dental Contribution; Patient Advocacy Services, PIC (Parent Infant Center - provides diapers, formula, clothes, parenting classes)
· Second Harvest Food Bank of Champaign, Clark, and Logan Counties https://www.theshfb.org/
July 2024 "How to have hard conversations about immigration (July 9, 7 p.m. ET) An opportunity from the American Friends Service Committee. Register & more info at https://afsc.org/events/migration-justice-webinar-series-hard-conversations?
May 18, 2024 use the Quixote Center message tool to urge the Biden administration to stop deportations to Haiti and to extend TPS for Haitians past the expiration on August 4, 2024. Despite extreme violence in Haiti deportations from the U.S. to Haiti continue. https://quixote.org/action#/14 or www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
April 18, 2024 Tell the Senate to protect us from the recent House passed expansion of federal surveillance - surveillance of all, but also with a specific new provision that would target immigrants. A few more details are below followed by many action links to contact our senators - pick one or more please! [details removed when this action became out of date]
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February 23, 2024: Tell President Biden not to use executive powers to enact more restrictive options at the border. People over politics! Sign the petition at https://www.raicestexas.org/asylumban with your name, email address and zip code.
January 2024: Use this message tool “Reject Billions to ICE + CBP & Safeguard Asylum!” to send emails to Congress from the Defund Hate coalition which includes the ACLU, Amnesty International, Church World Service, National Immigration Law Center, United We Dream and many others. [Update: This was written before the Feb 4 release of the “emergency supplemental” bill but is appropriate advocacy, relevant to it ] (https://actionnetwork.org/letters/government-shutdown-averted
Afghan Adjustment Act Provisions: Nov 30, 2023 Call or email Rep. Mike Turner. He is important to this! He is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee. Urge Rep. Turner to use his power to influence Chairman Rogers (Chair of the House Armed Services Committee) to persuade Speaker Johnson that AAA provisions belong in the NDAA. Keeping the promises we made is a matter of justice to those who risked their lives but also is in our self-interest if the U.S. will have any credibility in the future when it asks allies for their help. Most veterans groups and many faith groups support the AAA provisions. Representative Mike Turner (202) 225-6465 https://turner.house.gov/contact
November 27 - December 1, 2023 Please join the good people in the Value Our Families coalition by taking action to reunite families by addressing green card and visa backlogs through the Reuniting Families Act and executive actions. Quick easy actions (send an email, make a call or Tweet) at https://advancingjustice-aajc.quorum.us/advancingjustice-aajc.immigration Also, sign the petition to President Biden at https://www.change.org/p/president-biden-please-reunite-families-now? Executive actions in the petition include:
September 27, 2023 Tell Kroger to protect farm workers against forced labor and other abuses in their supply chain by joining the Fair Food Program already joined by Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and the major fast food chains with the exception of Wendy’s. Quickest action: enter your name and email address at https://secure.everyaction.com/LDjlQWYmcUeEFK_ZUKArIw2 (you can customize or not; if you shop at Kroger, you can easily add a sentence at the beginning to say that). More options and information at https://ciw-online.org/
September 14, 2023 Eleven year old administrative relief from deportation program DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) was on life support and a September 13 court decision has increased the threat! Please take this quick action at https://act.nilc.org/page/56847/action/1? to urge legislation enacting DACA. DACA is in great peril - already no new applications have been processed for a few years. About 600,000 current DACA participants and hundreds of thousands DACA eligible people need protection from deportation, work permits, driver's licenses and more so they can support themselves and their families and contribute to their communities in a time of "help wanted" signs everywhere!
July 18, 2023 Please call and/or email our two Ohio senators and urge them to support including the Afghan Adjustment Act (AAA) in the Senate NDAA (National Defense Authorization At) floor session this week and to pass it. (When I called the legislative staffer asked me for the name and number of the bill: it's the Afghan Adjustment Act of 2023 S. 2327). Contact info for senators is given above.
This is a crucial time for us to get Congress to pass this truly bipartisan legislation to fulfill our promises to our Afghan allies (interpreters, drivers and more). More than 70,000 came to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul, but few have long term legal status. Furthermore, additional allies remain in Afghanistan or other countries. The AAA (Afghan Adjustment Act) will provide promised support for both groups. Fulfilling our promises is the right thing to do. Furthermore, it is the self-interest of the U.S. to give credibility to future promises to needed allies.
If you would like more information and/or to use a nonprofit’s action link:
Church World Service: :https://cwsglobal.org/action-alerts/take-action-urge-congress-to-pass-the-afghan-adjustment-act-to-protect-afghans-at-risk/ (info is at the left, at the top right choose email, call and/or tweet. Note if you use this tool and call, you may need to stay on the line after you say goodbye to the first office in order to be transferred to the next).
Other action links from Evacuate Our Allies Coalition:
June, 2023 Please take these easy actions as requested by those doing the hard work on the front lines, as they visit congress and take risks as they rally, witness, protest and temporarily occupy government spaces.
DACA: Daca turned 11 but is on life support! Please take this quick action at https://act.nilc.org/page/53665/action/1? to urge legislation enacting DACA. DACA is in great peril from the courts - already no new applications have been processed for a few years. DACA participants and DACA eligible people need work permits, driver's licenses and more so they can support themselves and their families and contribute to their communities in a time of "help wanted" signs everywhere!
Reuniting Families Act. Urge your U.S. rep to co-sponsor or at least support the act. Easy to call, email or Tweet with tool at which also has more details:
https://advancingjustice-aajc.quorum.us/advancingjustice-aajc.immigration
Afghan Adjustment Act. Call on your U.S. rep to cosponsor the reintroduction of the act to protect and keep our promises to Afghan allies and their families. Two action links: From the Afghan-American Foundation: https://www.refugeesinternational.org/pass-the-afghan-adjustment-act and from UU’s for Social Justice: https://uusj.salsalabs.org/iat_re-introduce_aaa2023/index.html?
DACA. Call on Congress to pass DACA. DACA has been seriously weakened by court decisions and is in jeopardy. Only Congress can fix this. Send a message here: https://act.nilc.org/page/46080/action/1 Check back next for more as a DACA week of action begins June 12.
May, 2023, Protect New Mothers and Babies: Send a message to Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) demanding that pregnant, postpartum, and nursing persons and infants must be released from detention as soon as possible – so they can access the safe reproductive health care they need. Thanks to our friends in Cleveland at IRTF for including this request in their recent newsletter. Act here: https://action.aclu.org/send-message/uphold-reproductive-rights-and-health-migrants?
Thanks to all who participated in the March public comment advocacy below. More than 32,000 comments were received!
March 12-March 27, Make a public comment against the Biden Administration’s Proposed Rules Restricting Asylum. Important: If enacted, the proposed rule would drastically limit the ability to seek asylum at the southwest border.
· Urgent: The deadline to submit a comment is March 27.
· Please submit your public comments using the comment tool at noasylumban.us
· Make clear you oppose the proposed rule and include one or more specific aspects that you oppose.
· Duplicate comments will be given much less weight than unique comments, so please use your own words. You may personalize based on your own experiences but be aware that comments will be public.
· There are some “talking points” at the form for comments at noasylumban.us
· More info and “talking points” at bit.ly/3YHmhDW
· Your comment need not be comprehensive; you can focus on one or two reasons you object to the proposal.
Feb 27, 2023: Act now to oppose the Biden administration’s recently announced fast tracked rules that would all but eliminate access to asylum for the vast majority of asylum seekers at the southwest border.
Act: Excellent concise information and tool to submit rule comment from the Immigration Justice Campaign at https://immigrationjustice.quorum.us/campaign/44910/
Act: Quick, easy email tool with “talking points” from the ACLU to send a short email to President Biden https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-biden-seeking-asylum-legal-right?
Act: For extra impact beyond the above two actions, send an email or make a phone call to President Biden to oppose the new proposal on asylum (Biden contact info at the top of this page)
Learn: The American Immigration Council has a good explanation of the consequences of the Biden administration proposal: https://immigrationimpact.com/2023/02/22/steps-to-seek-asylum-biden-transit-ban/?
Learn: Thursday, March 2 at 2 pm listen to the American Immigration Council webinar on the proposed new asylum ban. Registration and short description at https://aila-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7zPha0BkSvm1gCVEQ4ggSw?
Thank you!
TPS - Temporary Protected Status: (1) Thank Sherrod Brown for doing the right thing on Jan 18 in urging President Biden to grant TPS to Mauritanians: Senator Brown 202-224-2315 https://www.brown.senate.gov/contact/email (Learn more at tinyurl.com/SherrodBrownTPS ) and
TPS- Temporary Protected Status: (2) demand more by telling Pres. Biden to grant TPS for Mali, Mauritania, and Pakistan
Sign Human Rights First petition “calling on the Biden administration to end policies that tear refugee families apart and adopt those that will reunite separated families.” https://humanrightsfirst.quorum.us/campaign/29629/
Sign petition to ask President Biden to prioritize immigration by including it in the Feb 7 State of the Union address. Petition from United We Dream:
Oppose Biden Plans to Further Restrict Access to Asylum. Interfaith Immigration Coalition (national group), Jan 17, 0223 Info and contact info for calling or emailing members of Congress : https://bit.ly/CWSAsylumBan
President Biden’s January 5 Announcement Including Expansion of Title 42
A first action on this significant and largely disappointing announcement is sending a message to our legislators and President Biden using the easy link at https://quixote.org/action#/5
What others are saying about President Biden’s Jan 5 Title 42 Announcement:
Democratic lawmakers including Senator Bob Menendez have criticized the expansion of these policies, which on Thursday he called “a disastrous and inhumane relic of the Trump administration’s racist immigration agenda.” https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-lay-out-new-cuba-nicaragua-haiti-migrant-policy-border-speech-2023-01-05/
National Association of Manufacturers President Jay Timmons welcomed Biden's actions, but said congressional reforms were still needed, especially "with 779,000 open jobs and not enough Americans to fill these vacancies." https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-lay-out-new-cuba-nicaragua-haiti-migrant-policy-border-speech-2023-01-05/
More at:
Afghan Adjustment Act Please contact all three of your federal legislators (senators’ contacts are above). Sample message:
I am deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of Afghans seeking safety in the United States. The recent TPS designation for Afghans is an important first step. I urge you to now do your utmost to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act to establish a roadmap to citizenship for Afghans seeking safety in the United States, and expand humanitarian pathways for Afghans left behind.
It is not only right that we keep our promises to our allies, but it is also in our own self-interest if we want future potential allies to trust our word. Please act on this as soon as possible in order to pass the AAA now in 2022.
Read more about the AAA at https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/politics/former-us-ambassadors-afghan-allies-spending-bill/index.html
Adoptee Citizenship Act (updated 12/16)
A succinct statement of the need for this bill is at: https://www.adopteesforjustice.org/ohio as well as a quick, easy tool to call Senator Rob Portman to urge his support call. You can also email a short message to him at https://www.portman.senate.gov/meet/contact
Why the Adoptee Citizenship Act is needed: Joao Herbert was just a regular Ohio teenager in Wadsworth, until his world turned upside down. He was deported to Brazil, a country where he had no family and did not speak the language. A few years later, he was murdered., No justice was ever served.
Why was he deported? Joao was an international adoptee, and his family didn't understand that they needed to file for his citizenship separately from the adoption process. He was deported after a marijuana arrest, and his family's nightmare ended in tragedy.
If the Adoptee Citizenship Act had already been law, Joao would be alive and safe, at home with his family. At least 50 adopted people have been deported in recent years, and deserve the opportunity to come home.
Recent news article at https://asamnews.com/2022/12/09/the-adoptee-citizenship-act-and-the-impact-it-would-have/
DACA and DREAMERS URGENT ( Dec 7, 2022)
Now is the last chance to protect DACA and Dreamers who came to the U.S. at age 16 and younger
Action
Please contact our U.S. Senators. A simple message is: “I urge Senator _____ to do everything in their power now, in 2022, to pass legislation that provides permanent protections for DACA recipients and Dreamers.”
Most effective are phone calls and emails:
· Senator Rob Portman 202-224-3353 https://www.portman.senate.gov/meet/contact
· Senator Sherrod Brown 202-224-2315 https://www.brown.senate.gov/contact/email
· Senate Leader Chuck Schumer 202-224-6542
Phone calls are “easy” as you most often just leave a message. You can leave messages after hours and on the weekend.
Other options to send a message are below. These include talking points and instructions:
Call tool at https://www.fwd.us/action/takeaction/
Email tool at https://wearecasa.org/updates/dacanow/
Please act! Hanging in the balance are the security and livelihoods of 4,000 Ohioans, 700,000 Americans, the families they love and financially support, as well as their contributions as essential workers, entrepreneurs, community members and more. Those numbers are current DACA recipients; the numbers more than double when DACA eligible are included. Please share with others who might act. Please act now and again in a week. Thank you.
*December is the last chance for at least two years, and perhaps more.
In January, control of the U.S. House changes from Democratic to Republican. It is highly unlikely that acceptable legislation will be passed in 2023. December is the so-called “lame duck” time and the calendar is:
· Focused negotiations between Dec. 5th - 9th, Dec. 6th a key date
· Legislative activity the week of Dec. 12th - 16th
· An expected stop for the holidays/in-state work by December 22nd. (credit UUSJ)
Dream Act and DACA are for immigrants who came to the U.S. when 16 or younger, many who have little or no connection to the countries of their birth. DACA is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and was established by executive order by President Obama. It has brought 700,000 Americans from living in the shadows, with protection from most deportations and providing work permits and driver’s licenses and more. DACA recipients must renew every two years. President Trump tried to end DACA; it has been attacked through numerous lawsuits, suspending it in various ways. Currently, DACA recipients can renew, but no new applications can be processed for the one million DACA eligible people. (continued on next page)
In 2021, the House passed a much-needed legislative fix with HR 6. It is urgent that the Senate act now. Legislation to protect Dreamers has widespread public support; most polls showing more than 70%. It’s past time for Congress to act.
Learn more at these recent articles:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-11-23/la-ed-save-daca
This document was prepared by the Miami Valley Immigration Coalition.
Questions? Suggestions? Email them at immigrationdayton@gmail.com
The Miami Valley Immigration Coalition’s mission is to be an alliance advocating for justice for immigrants, seeking to build spaces and communal bonds to share information and resources. Contact us with any questions or concerns, and we will do what we can to help find information, resources, or a way to resolve the situation. Also, contact us if you’re looking for opportunities to participate with MVIC to serve your community, fight for your rights, and grow as a leader in the community.