
In 2013 New Orleans has seen an increase of families being torn apart by immigration raids and deportation, especially affecting a large number of parents and day laborers.
These immigration raids have taken place in small stores, parking lots, apartment buildings, day laborer corners and people’s homes. The New Orleans Congress of Day Laborers and the families facing separation are organizing a campaign to stop these raids, and stop the deportations of their loved ones.
Please sign on to these two letters to Immigration and Customs Enforcement if you represent a community organization or institution that supports these parents and workers fighting against deportation.
Letter to New Orleans Field Office Director Trey Lund, asking for prosecutorial discretion for a list of parents who were detained during ICE raids. Read full letter here.
Letter to Glenda Raborn, Immigration and Customs Enforcement New Orleans Office of Chief Counsel, requesting prosecutorial discretion in the case of reconstruction workers arrested during an immigration raid on Louisiana Home Elevations. Read full letter here.
Growing List of Organizations Signing On to Letters
- All Of Us Or None
- Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice
- American Friends Service Committee Project Voice Cambridge
- Arkansas Coalition for DREAM
- ArteFuturo Productions
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice – LA
- Black Alliance for Just Immigration
- Casa Latina
- Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal
- Church of Our Saviour/Iglesia de Nuestro Salvador
- CLEAN Carwash Campaign
- Colectiva Legal del Pueblo
- Comite de Justicia Laboral
- New Orleans Congress of Day Laborers
- DreamActivist DC
- DreamActivist Ohio
- DreamActivist.org
- Dreamers of Virginia
- DRM Action Coalition
- Duke Memorial United Methodist Church
- El Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores
- Families for Freedom
- Farmworker Association of Florida
- Food Chain Workers Alliance
- Food Empowerment Project
- Fords 4 Immigrant Justice
- Franciscan Friars
- Freedom Socialist Party
- Fuerza del Valle Workers’ Center
- Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights
- Georgia Undocumented Youth Alliance
- Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training
- Hispanic Organization for Latino Awarenes at Sewanee
- Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- Immigrant Defense Project
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center
- Immigrant Youth Justice League
- Immigration Reform Coalition (Indiana)
- Improving Dreams, Equality, Access and Success at University of California
- Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice (IMIrJ)
- Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
- Jobs with Justice East Tennessee
- Jobs with Justice Kentukee
- Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
- Latino Union of Chicago
- Latin@ Youth Action League, DuPage, IL
- Los Angeles Immigrant Youth Coalition
- Living Hope Wheelchair Association
- Massachusetts Jobs With Justice
- Make the Road New York
- Mennonite Central Committee New Orleans
- Migrant Justice
- Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights
- Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE)
- MoveOn.org Michiana
- National American Latino Progressive Voters
- National Guestworker Alliance
- National Guestworkers Alliance (NGA)
- National Immigration Law Center
- North Carolina Dream Team
- New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City
- North central Indiana Coalition for Immigration Reform
- Ohio Action Circle
- Ohio Interfaith Immigration Coalition
- Pasadena Latino Forum
- Phoenix Showing Up for Racial Justice
- Puentes New Orleans
- Racial Justice Action Center
- Radical Women
- RGV Community DREAMers
- Salvadoran American National Network (SANN)
- SEIRN NC.
- SEIU Local 1021
- Sewanee Young Democratic Socialists
- Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Justice Team
- Sisters, Home Visitors of Mary
- South Central Indiana Jobs with Justice
- St. Gabriel Peace and Justice Comm.
- Stand with Dignity
- Tampa Moveon.org
- Texas A&M University
- The Ave Project
- The Wage Justice Center
- Twomey Center for Peace through Justice
- Undocumented Students and Allies
- Undocumented Illinois
- Unidad Latina en Acción New Heaven
- Union de Vecinos
- United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society
- United Workers Congress
- Vermont Workers Center
- Voces de la Frontera (Wisconsin)
- Who You Calling Illegal (Washington)
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