Reuniting Families Act

DEMOCRATIC POLICY & STEERING COMMITTEE HEARING LETTER: Letter urging the House Committee to convene a hearing on the misuse of military and immigration enforcement powers in the U.S. The hearing would allow Members of Congress to document abuses, hear from impacted communities, and explore legislative remedies to restore accountability and oversight. DIGNITY ACT OF 2025 (H.R.4393). Virtual coalition lobbying meeting with the office of Rep. Salazar (FL-27-R). DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS (DACA): Letter urging Senators to stand up for DACA recipients and other members of our community who know no other home but this one. DACA recipients have been wrongly targeted. DACA was only meant to be temporary relief for Dreamers. Congress and Congress alone has the power to end this uncertainty and provide Dreamers with a pathway to citizenship. Simultaneously, Congress must urge the Administration to uphold the protections DACA recipients receive. With courts challenging DACAs future and proposals threatening to end it, and with DACA recipients being stopped, detained, and threatened with deportation, now is not a time for passivity. PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATION: Letter to the President and Congress calling for an increase in the Presidential Determination number for the refugee resettlement program. With the Presidential Determination set at 7,500 people-and with the range of populations eligible for resettlement sharply reduced from previous years-the sign-on letter underscores the importance of the refugee program. For more than four decades, the U.S. refugee program has reflected our nations deepest values and global leadership in protecting the persecuted. Rooted in the Refugee Act of 1980, this bipartisan commitment has offered safety and opportunity to millions fleeing violence and oppression. Today, that legacy is at risk. REUNITING FAMILIES ACT (S. 3410 / H.R. 6565): Letter to Congress endorsing the Reuniting Families Act of 2025 that would strengthen protections for immigrant families and address long-standing problems in a family immigration system that hasnt seen meaningful reform in more than three decades. DIGNITY FOR DETAINED IMMIGRANTS ACT (H.R. 6397): Letter to Congress endorsing The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act that would: Repeal mandatory detention; Prohibit the detention of families and children in family detention; Create a presumption of release and impose a higher burden of proof to detain primary caregivers and vulnerable populations, including pregnant women, survivors of torture or gender-based violence, people with serious mental or physical illness or disability, LGBTQ individuals, asylum seekers, and people over age 60; Phase out the use of private detention facilities and jails over a three-year period; Require DHS to establish civil detention standards that provide, at minimum, the level of protection in the American Bar Associations Civil Immigration Detention Standards; Mandate the DHS Inspector General to conduct unannounced inspections with meaningful penalties for failure to comply with standards; and Require DHS to admit Members of Congress to detention facilities for unannounced inspections. ANTI-HUNGER, HEALTH & ECONOMIC SUPPORTS TO IMM FAMILIES AFFECTED BY PUBLIC CHARGE RECISSION: Letter to Dept of Homeland Security expressing strong opposition to the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published in the Federal Register on November 19, 2025. The provisions of DHS 2022 public charge regulation (87 FR 55472), described in the NPRM as straitjackets, are more accurately described as guardrails that safeguard the 28% of the United States population - about half of whom are U.S. citizens - living in immigrant families from arbitrary or biased application of the immigration laws public charge provision. Rescinding the 2022 regulation is a threat to the nations health and wellbeing, and to the just administration of immigration law, and DHS should abandon this proposal. PROPOSED PUBLIC CHARGE RULE (FOCUS ON WIC / SNAP): Letter to Department of Homeland Security opposing its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that, if enacted, would change the definition of what could be considered in making a public charge determination for people seeking a U.S. green card or visa. Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility (Docket No. USCIS-2025-0304) would rescind the 2022 public charge regulation and replace it with a vague, expansive framework that could dramatically increase fear, confusion, and disenrollment from essential nutrition, health, and housing programs.

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Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), President of the U.S., SENATE