Recent immigration headlines have a Trump-era quality to them, and broken promises are an all too common occurrence among those in charge. Today, the Biden administration is still defending Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy that allows the use of a public health order to leave our asylum system defunct, resulting in a backlog of over 400,000 asylum applications. Despite a ruling from the U.S. District Court ordering an end to this program, the Biden Administration appealed this decision and will continue deportations under Title 42.

Title 42 is currently being used to deport refugees to Haiti , despite political unrest and a devastating earthquake. Earlier this year, the Biden administration designated Haiti for Temporary Protected Status, noting political unrest and human rights concerns. However, in a contradiction, U.S. border agents were photographed committing human rights violations of their own against Haitian refugees at the U.S. Southern border. Moreover, medical abuse and human rights violations are still a common occurrence at detention centers at Georgia and Fort Bliss (an unlicensed emergency camp for children managed by private contractors who have no experience in child welfare).

Lawmakers are failing on immigration policy. We have a responsibility to migrants, refugees, and frontline communities to hold lawmakers to the commitments they made on the campaign trail. Sign the petition: Dignity, respect, & nothing less. Dems & Biden must pass permanent immigration protection and relief this year.

The climate catastrophe is fueling migration to the U.S. Southern border, and Black and Brown migrants are at greater risk of displacement. There is a call from both parties for an actionable path to citizenship, and our legislature must answer that call. Lawmakers have an obligation to treat immigration reform as more than just a policy platform that can help get them elected but as a series of regulations that impacts the all too real lives of millions of people.

We are calling on the Biden administration and Congressional Dems to use the authority granted to them in November to immediately:

• Continue the fight against the Remain in Mexico ruling;
  
• Eliminate ICE and detention centers and criminally charge those actors committing human rights violations at our border and detention centers;
  
• End Title 42;
  
• End deportations; and
  
• Develop a pathway to citizenship for ALL, including Dreamers, TPS holders, farmworkers, and essential workers.
  

Sign the petition: Dignity, respect, & nothing less. Dems & Biden must pass permanent immigration protection and relief this year.

Participating Organizations
Arab American Civic Council
Coalition on Human Needs
Daily Kos
Families for Freedom
The Juggernaut Project
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Norcal Resist
ParentsTogether Action
The UndocuBlack Networ United We Dream Actionk