Webinar: Protecting Asylees & Detainees, Ending Family Separation!
June 18, 2020
Join Our Faith Webinar! “Detention, Asylum, Family Separation & COVID-19”, Wed., June 3, 4 PM ET/1 PM PT
Image from: https://www.thewayofasylum.com
As people of faith, how will we respond to people dying in jails, prisons, and detention facilities, and being deported–especially during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Please join this webinar to find out what we can do as faith communities to prevent family separation and family detention, and to protect asylum seekers. We will also explore how racism and militarization infect both the criminal justice and immigration systems.
Please RSVP Here and a link for the webinar will be sent to you!
Speakers:
Guerline Jozef, President of Haitian Bridge Alliance
Chiqui Sanchez Kennedy, Immigration Legal Services Director, YMCA International Services
Pedro Rios, Director of the U.S.-Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee
Hillary Kipnis, Migrant Children and Families Advocacy Officer, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Rev. Dr. Sharon Stanley-Rea, Moderator, Disciples Refugee & Immigration Ministries
Together as people of faith, and in partnership with multiple faith communities with the Interfaith Immigration Coalition, we’re working to:
- Prevent family separation and family detention
- Stop transferring and deporting people, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic
- End the massive immigration detention system
- Free as many people as possible from federal, state, & local prisons and jails
- Protect the asylum program and stop deportations of unaccompanied migrant children
Please RSVP Here and a link for the webinar will be sent to you.
Also, Continue to Share the Opportunity & Join Disciples “IWOBS”
(Immigrant-led Weekly Online Bible Studies). RSVP here.
(Immigrant-led Weekly Online Bible Studies). RSVP here.
Join the next “Outer Study” for all who wish to study scripture thru an immigrant-based lens–to be held on Thursday, June 4th at 11 a.m. Eastern. Questions? Contact Valeria Bejar, Disciples Immigration Response Specialist: vbejar@cpohm.disciples.org.
