For months, headlines have been dominated by the devastating impacts of the Trump Administration’s immigration policies and the growing movement against them. Loved ones have been torn apart at the border, thousands have been funneled into a cruel and inhumane detention and deportation system, and there are almost 500 children who still remain separated from their families.  

Reports this week indicate that the U.S. is planning to end all funding to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).  

UNRWA provides vital funding to millions of Palestinian refugees throughout the Middle East. Ending U.S. funding to UNRWA places already vulnerable communities at a higher risk and politicizes humanitarian assistance that should be given based on need.  

This webinar features coaching of folks doing detention visitation who are part of the Changing systems, changing ourselves e-course.

This is a video of a coaching session with people who are part of the Changing systems, changing ourselves e-course working to apply the practices in the context of court/ICE accompaniment.

This video is a coaching webinar applying the practices taught in the Changing systems, changing ourselves e-course for congregational Sanctuary.

Gabriel Gluskin-Braun is a summer intern in the Middle East Program at AFSC's Chicago office. He is a rising junior at Claremont McKenna College, majoring in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Immigrants and their families advocate to stay in the U.S.   

Bright and early on a Tuesday morning in mid-July, dozens of immigrants and their families boarded a bus in Newark, New Jersey. They were headed to Washington, D.C., where they would take a powerful stand to save Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS is a life-saving immigration program that allows foreign nationals to remain in the U.S. if war, natural disaster, or some other catastrophe in their country of origin prevents their safe return.