March 15, 2023 The Honorable Joseph R. Biden President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: Permanently end family detention Dear President Biden: The undersigned 383 organizations write to express our grave concern over reports that your administration is considering returning to the policy of family detention [...]
The Honorable Members of the 118th CongressU.S. House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C.January 12, 2023 Dear Honorable Members of the 118th Congress: With the new year comes new opportunities for the U.S. government to establish a humane and orderly immigration policy that respects human rights. The newly elected majority in the House of Representatives, however, is moving [...]
The Hon. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20500 November 4, 2022 Submitted via email Re: Do not send Haitians to detention at Guantánamo Bay or subject them to third-country arrangements We, at the Haitian Bridge Alliance, and the undersigned 288 immigration, civil [...]
December 23, 2022 The Honorable Joseph Biden President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500 The Honorable Charles Schumer Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Mitch [...]
December 12, 2022 Dear Senators: We are deeply concerned that the National Defense Authorization Act will severely undermine accountability for federal judges regarding ethical and conflicts-of-interest matters. Accordingly, we call upon the Senate to remove Section 5934 from the NDAA prior to passage. The "Judicial Security and Privacy Act" contained in Title LIX Subtitle D [...]
States Should End Reprisals Against Anti-Corruption Human Defenders As the world celebrates the International Anti-Corruption Day and the 24th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders on this day, 9 December 2022, we, the undersigned organizations and individuals, urge all UN Member States to end reprisals against anti-corruption human rights [...]
December 8, 2022 The Honorable Jerrold Nadler Chairman U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515 Dear Chairman Nadler: We, the undersigned organizations, write to thank you for scheduling today’s hearing on “Undue Influence: Operation Higher Court and Politicking at SCOTUS” and for your continued commitment to bringing transparency [...]
December 5, 2022 Dear Assistant Secretary Doug Parker and Deputy Assistant Secretary Jim Frederick, As 19 organizations working with meat and poultry workers, we are writing regarding Packers Sanitation Services Inc., PSSI, a company hired by hundreds of poultry and meat plants nationwide to work the dangerous graveyard shift to sanitize the plants. The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour [...]
November 30, 2022 The Honorable Patrick Leahy The Honorable Rosa L. DeLauro Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee Chair, House Appropriations Committee Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Richard Shelby The Honorable Kay Granger Vice Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee [...]
November 29, 2022 The Honorable Charles Schumer The Honorable Patrick Leahy United States Senate Washington, D.C., 20510 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi The Honorable Rosa DeLauro United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, Chairman Leahy, and Chair DeLauro: As organizations committed to workers’ rights, civil rights, and the ongoing [...]