The right to seek asylum in the United States is in peril. In spite of conflicting court decisions, the White House and federal agencies maintain vast authority to uphold this fundamental right. We commend the April 2022 decision to lift the Title 42 order and the immediate action taken to appeal the May 20 ruling in Louisiana v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But you must not stop with these actions alone.

As U.S. civil society organizations focused on refugee and migrants’ rights, human rights, humanitarian response, foreign and domestic policy, we write collectively to share our expectations for the upcoming Summit of the Americas. We acknowledge and welcome efforts to address migration and protection at the regional level and expect the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection to promote respect for the rights of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees.

Advancing Justice | AAJC joins the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), and 88 local, state, and national organizations, in respectfully requesting that they continue to support naturalization by providing much needed funding to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the USCIS Citizenship and Integration Grant program. 

Dear Chairwoman Roybal-Allard, Ranking Member Fleischmann, Chairman Murphy, and Ranking Member Moore Capito,

Advancing Justice - AAJC joins over 190 organizations and over 70 medical and healthcare professionals in signing onto a letter urging Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube to remove medically inaccurate disinformation about abortion. Mis and disinformation about abortion care is dangerous, and platforms should move swiftly to remove this and other forms of medical disinformation.

The Disinfo Defense League, or DDL, is a distributed national network of over 230 grassroots, community-based organizations that are building a collective defense against disinformation campaigns that deliberately target Black, Latinx, Asian American, and other communities of color.

Over 200 organizations expressed their concern regarding the amendments included in the Fiscal Year 2023 House spending bills for the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services that would legislatively codify and indefinitely prolong the use of the Title 42 policy, which has been used to block and expel asylum seekers and migrants seeking safe haven in the United States. The letter urges House leadership to ensure that these amendments are not included in any legislation that receives a vote on the House floor.

On July 12, the Temporary Protected Status Deferred Enforced Departure Administrative Advocacy Coalition (TPS-DED AAC) and 112 organizations wrote to the administration to urge that Secretary Mayorkas extend and redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syria for 18 months. Organizations have additionally requested fee waivers due to slow processing times for Syrian TPS applications and dedicated funding to address the backlog issues.

On June 23, 190 local, state, and national organizations led by the Temporary Status and Deferred Enforced Departure Administrative Advocacy Coalition TPS-DED AAC wrote to President Biden, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to urge an 18-month extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuela. TPS provides life-saving protection to noncitizens in the United States, including undocumented immigrants, who cannot be safely returned to their home country.

We the undersigned 140 organizations stand with Black communities, and all communities of color in America and at our borders, who have been relentlessly targeted in the media, in the halls of Congress, and tragically, by armed white supremacists. From El Paso to Pittsburgh, and across cities and towns in the U.S., the targeted murder of 10 people in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo is the latest in a series of tragedies directly inspired by white supremacist ideology.