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Sign the Petition to End Border Patrol Abuse

Over the last 5 years, migrants have faced more than 30,000 incidents of abuse and mistreatment while in Border Patrol custody. Our partner organization, No More Deaths, recently released a comprehensive report documenting these abuses.

Please join us in calling for an immediate end to the abuse, clear and enforceable standards for Border Patrol short-term custody, and independent community oversight of the U.S. Border Patrol.

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Tell Congress: Use Your Power to Help Our Indonesian Christian Neighbors

The message below went out to Standing on the Side of Love supporters on Thursday, December 22, 2011. You can sign-up for these emails here. ——————————————————————————————————————– My name is Seth Kaper-Dale.  I have co-pastored a church in Highland Park, NJ with wife wife since 2001.  For the past 10 years I have witnessed the tremendous suffering of...

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‘Shattered Families’ Need Our Voices

This post was contributed by Mark Maginn, member of the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church Immigrant Task Force. ————————————————————————- The members of the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church Immigrant Task Force Shattered Families Subcommittee came together, inspired to do something after digesting the Shattered Families Report produced by the Applied Research Center. The report finds that, in...

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A Toolkit: How You Can Help Stop Deportations

The message below went out to Standing on the Side of Love supporters on Tuesday, November 22, 2011. You can sign-up for these emails here. ___________________________________________________________________________ I am excited to share with you a new way to help you stand on the side of love with immigrant families.  The Interfaith Immigration Coalition, a national partnership of faith-based...

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Congress: Do Your Part to End Border Patrol Abuses

Yesterday afternoon advocacy organization representatives and congressional staffers gathered in a small room in the Canon House Office Building for a congressional briefing on No More Deaths’ “Culture of Cruelty” report.  As we have reported previously (here and here), No More Deaths conducted interviews with nearly 13,000 migrants and documented 30,000 incidents of abuse and mistreatment...

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Some Wonderful News

The message below went out to Standing on the Side of Love supporters on Wednesday, November 16, 2011. You can sign-up for these emails here. You have heard a lot about the Cardenas family in Denver this past year.  Through Raul Cardenas, you witnessed just one example of what ‘undocumented’ looks like. Working with the Cardenas family and the...

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