![]() Teresita Valeriano, Minister, Alamaeda, CAĬhair, Immigration Committee Alton Chinn, Buena Vista United Methodist Church, Alameda, CAĪustin Tam, Buena Vista United Methodist Church, Alameda, CAĮxecutive Director maureen Duignan, Catholic, Alameda, CA Helen Greer, Trinity Presbyterian, Tucson, AZ Bill Remmel, Society of the Divine Savior, TUCSON, AZ None Fritzi Redgrave, Retired, Tucson, AZįr. ![]() Suzanne Hesh, Episcopal church, Tucson, AZ Jay Hartley, Christian Church in Arizona, Tucson, AZįrank Bergen, Episcopal Church of St. Raymond Kenneth Kennon, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Tucson, AZ Ruth Wootten, University Lutheran (ELCA), Tempe, AZ Thomas Martinez, Desert Palm Church, Tempe, AZ Keeley Bruner, Community Christian Church, Tempe, AZ Elizabeth Enright, Assoc of Interfaith Ministers, Scottsdale, AZ Senior Minister Randy Mayer, The Good Shepherd United Church of Christ, Sahuarita, az Mark Hayduke Grenard, UU Congregation of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ William Muller, Brophy College Preparatory, Phoenix, AZįather ROBERT FAMBRINI, SJ, St. Katie Sexton-Wood, Arizona Faith Network, Phoenix, AZ Mary Thomas Thomas, United Church of Christ, Desert Heritage Church, Mesa, AZ Sister Nancy Wellmeier, Catholic coalition for migrant justice, Mesa, AZ Jo Vredenburg, AFN and Desert Palm UCC, Tempe, Mesa, AZ Karen Nye, Community Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Maricopa, AZ David Fronske, San Francisco de Asis Parish Catholic Church, Flagstaff, AZ Kathleen Rafferty, Catholic, Cottonwood, AZīrother Ignatius Harding ofm, Saint Francis Border mission, Elfrida, AZ Jason Smith, First Presbyterian Church, Arkadelphia, AR Myra Houser, First Presbyterian Church, Arkadelphia, AR John AME Church Wende, Hurtsboro, AL, Phenix City, AL Michael Brinkman, The United Methodist Church, Oneonta, AL PASTOR EARLIE DOUTHARD, PLAYERS CHAPEL, Ohatchee, AL Al Garrett, Youth Development Assoc., Inc., Madison, AL Thomas Smith, Methodist, Jacksonville, AL Pastor Jaimie Dingus, Unitarian Universalist Church of Huntsville, Huntsville, ALĭr. Brad Korb, Unitarian Universalist Church of Huntsville, Huntsville, AL Pastor Waymond Smith, Lowe’s Chapel UMC, Huntsville, AL LaGarrette Crawford, FIAAL, Huntsville, AL Cheryl Bowne, Faith In Action Alabama, Huntsville, AL Reverend James Napp, United Methodist Church, Hollywood, AL Karren Crowson, FIAA – Huntsville hub, Gurley, AL Daniel Schwartz, Faith in Action Alabama, Birmingham, AL Kristin Peters, Disciples of Christ (Christian Church), Fairbanks, AK There is simply too much at stake for our immigrant families and communities to permit any further delay in delivering on the promise of citizenship.įor our part, we will be praying for you and for your leadership, while continuing to organize and advocate so that one day the human rights and dignity of all immigrants are fully protected and promoted within our nation. Our communities need permanent protections, not temporary or conditional statuses that will condemn them to second-class social and political status which will prolong their vulnerability to immigration enforcement systems and other violations of their human rights. In the face of procedural challenges that may arise, we exhort you to “make a way”. In the face of any political challenges you face, we ask that you “make a way”. It is time that we hear and respond to the cries for justice of our immigrant siblings. We are now closer than we have been in a generation to achieving a transformative change to our immigration system, and we must not settle for anything less. Bypassing the parliamentarian and securing permanent protections is the moral thing to do. Our faith communities have stood in solidarity with all people who are undocumented including essential workers, DACA recipients or Dreamers, TPS-holders and agricultural workers since the start of your administration, working together to realize the promise of citizenship for as many of our undocumented kindred as possible this year. We write as faith leaders and people of faith of many traditions, united in the belief that all are created in our Creator’s image and have an inherent claim to dignity and justice. We urge you to bypass the recommendation of the Parliamentarian and make an independent decision as Presiding Officer of the Senate to keep a broad pathway to citizenship within the budget reconciliation package now being negotiated within Congress. At this critical juncture, you have the power to “make a way out of no way” for up to 8 million undocumented members of our congregations and communities.
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