Topic: Advocacy

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Jul 1, 2025

Senate-Passed Spending Bill Is Disastrous to Refugee and Immigrant Communities

Senate-Passed Spending Bill Is Disastrous to Refugee and Immigrant Communities HIAS condemns the egregious spending bill as a direct assault on American values and the safety of refugee and immigrant communities. 

Senate-Passed Spending Bill Is Disastrous to Refugee and Immigrant Communities

Jul 1, 2025

Joint statement: EU ‘safe country’ and return proposals would seriously undermine protection and human dignity

Joint statement: EU ‘safe country’ and return proposals would seriously undermine protection and human dignity The EU’s recent proposals in the area of migration and asylum risk seriously undermining people’s access to fair and full asylum procedures in Europe.

Joint statement: EU ‘safe country’ and return proposals would seriously undermine protection and human dignity

Jun 27, 2025

The ICE Raids — What You Need to Know

Protesters gather in front of City Hall in San Antonio, Texas. The Trump administration has expanded its crackdown on immigrants — to disastrous effect.

Protesters gather in front of City Hall in San Antonio, Texas.

Jun 17, 2025

The Harm of Removing Immigrants to Third Countries

Soldiers guarding the entrance at maximum security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism). A comment published by HIAS detailed the legal and moral perils of the U.S. decision to remove immigrants to third countries.

Soldiers guarding the entrance at maximum security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism).

Jun 16, 2025

Seven Ways You Can Take Action for Immigrants

HIAS supporters gather outside a courthouse in Seattle to celebrate the court ruling that blocked the Trump administration’s executive order suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). We must prevent this administration from repeating the mistakes of the past. Here's how you can help.

HIAS supporters gather outside a courthouse in Seattle to celebrate the court ruling that blocked the Trump administration’s executive order suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP).

Jun 13, 2025

The Trump Administration’s Assault on Humanitarian Aid — What You Need to Know

Congolese refugees look through a corrugated metal fence at batches of food delivered by USAID. The latest insight and analysis on the U.S. cuts to foreign aid spending — and how you can respond.

Congolese refugees look through a corrugated metal fence at batches of food delivered by USAID.

Jun 6, 2025

The Shameful Lesson of the ‘St. Louis’ is as Relevant as Ever

Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis crowd along the ship’s railing, some waving and smiling, as the ship departs Hamburg in 1939 in a failed attempt to find refuge from Nazi persecution. Eighty-six years after the U.S. refused the ship's entry, our country is again embracing xenophobic policies.

Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis crowd along the ship’s railing, some waving and smiling, as the ship departs Hamburg in 1939 in a failed attempt to find refuge from Nazi persecution.

Jun 4, 2025

HIAS Responds to Trump Administration’s Travel Ban Announcement

HIAS Responds to Trump Administration’s Travel Ban Announcement HIAS strongly opposed the travel ban in the first Trump administration, advocating in the courts and to elected officials, and will oppose it as stridently today. 

HIAS Responds to Trump Administration’s Travel Ban Announcement

May 30, 2025

Trump’s Asylum Ban and the U.S.-Mexico Border — What You Need to Know

Group of migrant women and children standing behind a metal barricade, looking somber while waiting outdoors near the U.S.-Mexico border. The asylum ban has had a profound effect in the four months since it was implemented.

Group of migrant women and children standing behind a metal barricade, looking somber while waiting outdoors near the U.S.-Mexico border.

May 30, 2025

HIAS Alarmed by SCOTUS Humanitarian Parole Ruling 

HIAS Alarmed by SCOTUS Humanitarian Parole Ruling  HIAS is deeply alarmed by the Supreme Court's decision this morning to reinstate the Trump administration’s termination of the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) humanitarian parole program.

HIAS Alarmed by SCOTUS Humanitarian Parole Ruling 

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