Almost 12,000 spouses of active duty, reserve, and veteran military personnel are currently in deportation proceedings. Many of them have U.S. citizen children. We should not be tearing these families apart. H.R. 5593, the Patriot Spouses Protection Act, recently introduced in the House of Representatives, would enable these families to stay together.

Indianapolis has a history of welcoming anyone who comes into our beautiful city. It is time that we shut the door on ICE and continue that heritage of welcome by welcoming our immigrant brothers and sisters.

Karla came to the United States from Mexico right before her third birthday. She used to be ashamed and afraid of being undocumented. But everything changed in November 2012 when she was able to obtain Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Because of DACA, Karla was able to work as an intern at the University of Houston Law Center Immigration Clinic, where she began to champion her fellow immigrants by organizing DACA clinics, participating in actions, and organizing legislative campaigns to protect undocumented students just like her. This month, Karla graduated from law school and will continue to be a champion for immigrants as an immigration attorney. Congress has had MONTHS to act, yet they’ve still failed to pass a Dream Act that would protect Dreamers like Karla, and hundreds of thousands of young immigrants like her. They are as American as anybody else in their graduating class, yet they may face deportation if Speaker Paul Ryan and Congressional Republicans don’t act. Tell Speaker Ryan: allow a vote on the Dream Act now! We cannot keep putting the future of Dreamers on hold.

As a refugee, I feel like we need to stand up for these people. They are people that escaped home due to violence and persecution

Nationwide, the Trump Administration is attacking immigrants and separating families in a series of policies that are wasteful and wrong. California has stood up to these policies through laws like the California Values Act. Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration opposes these efforts and is suing California. San Rafael’s City Council needs to show its support for our state’s pro-immigrant laws by signing on to a "friend-of-the-court" brief. The laws the Administration is challenging received strong support in the California legislature and broad endorsement by labor, faith and civil and immigrant rights organizations throughout the state. Immigrants are a vital part of our state's heart and soul, and our local governments should not be involved in painful deportations that separate families and further undermine confidence in law enforcement. Tell the San Rafael City Council to sign onto an amicus brief for the California Values Act today!

Nationwide, the Trump Administration is attacking immigrants and separating families in a series of policies that are wasteful and wrong. California has stood up to these policies through laws like the California Values Act. Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration opposes these efforts and is suing California. The Monterey County Board of Supervisors needs to show its support for our state’s pro-immigrant laws by signing on to a "friend-of-the-court" brief. The laws the Administration is challenging received strong support in the California legislature and broad endorsement by labor, faith and civil and immigrant rights organizations throughout the state. Immigrants are a vital part of our state's heart and soul, and our local governments should not be involved in painful deportations that separate families and further undermine confidence in law enforcement. Tell the Monterey County Board of Supervisors to sign onto an amicus brief for the California Values Act today!

My Husband, Luis Enrique Gonzalez-Ortiz has been in the country for 12 years. A role-model resident, self-employed creator of jobs, neighborhood revitalizer, and positive contributor to the community - and not a criminal - Enrique must be permitted to stay in the U.S. With an approved marriage to U.S. Citizen, Harlon J. Wilson, and more than a decade of working hard, paying income taxes, and contributing to his community, we should be permitted the necessary time to complete our application for the green card and waiver. With an application to renew our "Stay" denied and an ICE-requested travel itinerary to return to the dangers of El Salvador, extreme hardship would be caused both to me as the U.S. Citizen spouse as well as to my spouse, Enrique who would become the target of gang recruitment. Thankfully, the courts have recently agreed to hear our case although immigration judge's hands are tied with the recent unilaterally policy shifts of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. We need an Administrative Closure or Continuance until our green card is received. Sessions recent mandates of immigration judges make our case all the more concerning as we remain caught in limbo. As gay males with a same-sex marriage, we both would be in grave danger if returned to El Salvador, a nation that does not currently protect discrimination against gays nor recognize gay marriage. If U.S. immigration deports Enrique, we will stay together. It is likely I as a white American male would be the target of hate, discrimination, violence, extortion, and possibly death if forced to leave this country to be with my husband in his native homeland of El Salvador. Our full story is available at: http://deportinglove.com. Please review the details to learn of how U.S. immigration officials got it all wrong in this case. Enrique was seeking relief from the dangers of his land but did not know and adequately understand the communication at the border. While in processing, border officers refused to retrieve his Indiana-based Uncle's U.S. postal address from the pocket of the jacket that officials had locked away. Thus, it is unclear where a 2006 Notice to Appear was sent. Without receipt of the notice, he was unaware of a court date and did not appear to a 2006 hearing. A deportation was ordered at that time. We did not discover the order until our 2014 marriage and subsequent filing for legalization. Please consider hearing our story as we work towards changing laws. Immigration must be reformed to be more human-centered including amnesty for those already living in and contributing to the country. Please Stop the Deportation of Luis Enrique Gonzalez Ortiz. Please use every means, including the creation of a "Personal Bill," injunction, or every other possible option to remove Enrique's unjust deportation order. Please help us Stop the Deportation of my husband. Learn More at: http://www.deportinglove.com/2018/05/in-news-local-station-shares-our-story.html

Sign the petition today. A tragedy recently unfolded in the small farm worker town of Delano. The morning of March 13 Santos Hilario Garcia and Marcelina Garcia Porfecto, husband and wife farm workers, died in a car crash while fleeing ICE agents. Their six children, now without parents, are forced to fend for themselves and need your support. They are casualties of the Trump administration's targeting of hardworking immigrant farm workers who sacrifice to feed all of us. The family and community supporting them are asking you to sign the petition requesting that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra launch an investigation. The Delano police report supports the conclusion that the family's SUV was traveling at a high rate of speed while desperately trying to evade ICE agents when they lost control, hit a utility pole and their vehicle overturned on its roof. However, the police report on this fatal crash contradicts ICE agents' claims that they were not following behind the farm worker couple with their emergency lights on. It is deeply distressing that ICE agents' statements are contradicted by a surveillance video showing two ICE SUVs traveling behind the couple's vehicle with emergency lights activated, according to the Delano Police Department report. Why did the two ICE agents choose to misrepresent whether they were following the couple with their emergency lights on? And, why did ICE agents follow the couple if they not ICE targets? Despite the report, the Kern County district attorney refused to file charges against ICE. So we need to take it to the next level and ask California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to launch an investigation. Please sign the petition today! We will turn the petition in later this month.

I felt very disturbed about these perfectly fine people who have contributed so much to America. Right now their plight is at its climax. All it takes is a signature to give hope to these special people.

I am a mental health expert who witnesses the effects of childhood trauma everyday in the lives of the adults I treat. The trauma on families because of this practice by our government will reverberate for many lifetimes. We must act now to preserve our own sense of humanity as well.

My brothers and I came to this country as little kids over 20 years ago. This country has been our home. Now my brothers, my only siblings, have been deported. My family misses them, and we need them back home. ICE instills fear in every community. They picked up my brothers at their home and work, told them everything would be OK, and then left them across the border after taking their passports and bank cards. We cannot let ICE win. Please help us #BringEddyAndJustinoBackHome!!

Immigration policy needs to reflect American values and, more importantly, Human Rights. Taking children away from their parents is inhumane. There is no reason to do this except cruelty and surely to GOD we are a better country than this. When there is a reckoning for US policies like this, every one of us should be able to say "I didn't approve of it, and I did something about it; I told my representatives I wanted this to stop immediately."