Our immigrant and faith communities across the country are appalled by the daily deportation of 1,100 aspiring Americans. This separation of families is a moral tragedy, and as people of faith we cannot stay silent. Many immigrant families - like all families - are seeking better lives for their children, investing in communities, and contributing significantly to our economy and workforce. Tragically all across the country these families are being needlessly separated by detention and deportation, most of whom would benefit from pending legislation that has already passed the Senate but has lingered in the House of Representatives for a year. No one of good conscience can let this continue to our neighbors, congregation members, colleagues, and friends. We need President Obama and his administration to act now.

Howard Bailey is a veteran who served his country honorably, and built a family and a business after his service. But because of a 15 year old drug conviction, the government deported Howard from the United States - without a fair hearing and without the chance to rejoin his family. Veterans, like Howard, are deported all too often. Please sign and share the petition calling on our leaders to allow Howard to return home and reunite with his family. Be sure to note if you are a veteran. Howard Bailey is one of the two million people that President Obama has deported during his presidency.

A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS WRONGFULLY CONVICTED OF A CRIME IS NOW SCHEDULED TO BE DEPORTED FOLLOWING HIS RELEASE AT THE END OF THIS YEAR, WHEN HE HAS BEEN IN THE U.S. SINCE HIS EARLY LIFE AS A YOUNG BOY! HE WENT THROUGH ALL AMERICAN SCHOOLING AND EVEN GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL WITH A DIPLOMA! WE NEED TO SAVE HIM

The unfair deportation of this man will break up a wonderful family, take him away from his children and wife and create extreme hardship for them. He poses no threat to society and is a stable, hard-working individual.

Apoyen esta legislación en el estado de Nueva Jersey que le otorgaría a los inmigrantes un permiso de manejar sin importar el estatus migratorio. Animen a sus familiares, amistades y compañeros de trabajo que se unan a este esfuerzo para que se convierta en una ley pronto en NJ. Many families fall victim to an unjust system when they are stopped in a car without the proper documentations. Some have actually been deported merely for being passengers in a car simply because of the absence of a US government ID such as a driving license or, as proposed by these bills, a Driving Privilege Card. Therefore, it is important to provide a NJ Driving Privilege Card to these families in the interim, while a Comprehensive Immigration Reform is approved at a federal level.

Why are immigration officials in the Obama Administration targeting a mother of three U.S. citizens for deportation? If ICE officials go through with Esmeralda's deportation, her entire family will be devastated. Her two oldest children have received numerous awards for good grades and behavior, but they'll be forced to leave their school and home! Even their principal thinks ICE is making a terrible mistake -- the girls should be able to finish school just like any other child. Esmeralda has lived in the US for 14 years. She has no criminal record and pays her taxes. She'd likely qualify for the path to citizenship in the Senate immigration bill, but House Republicans refuse to bring it to a vote. The Obama Administration shouldn't punish Esmeralda and her girls just because Congress won't do its job. Esmeralda has no other family in the US, and she's terrified of taking her daughters back to her native Michoacan, where violent drug cartels are a part of daily life. We can help Esmeralda and her children by asking the Obama Administration to grant her a "stay of removal" so they can stay home where they belong. The petitions you've signed in the past have stopped several deportations -- we know we can help Esmeralda and her family, too! Esmeralda's children shouldn't be torn from their country, and Esmeralda from the only place she calls home. We need to help keep this family here!

Gema Lowe of Grand Rapids, Michigan is fasting until Rep. Justin Amash signs the petition. She began her fast on April 7th. 177 families are being torn apart by the broken immigration system everyday. We need our representatives to show courage and quit voting along party lines. Signing the discharge petition on HR 15 brings us one step closer to bringing the bill to the floor: families and children are on the line every day that we wait. We need Rep. Amash to sign on to the petition today.

I am their priest and pastor. Rene, Julieta and their children attend my church. I baptized baby Pamela last year (I am an Episcopal priest). I have been in their well-kept and warm home to pray and share food, and to bless their home. Rene is a very active volunteer in the community, helping people dealing with addictions. He deserves a chance. Please sign the petition asking for his release! People of good will, I am asking you to help us obtain Rene's release.

I believe that our civil rights are being abused by the "for profit" prisons. We are all personally affected by this issue even if it has not touched us personally.

Because common sense doesnt PING the heads of those who are suppose to care.

The recent hunger strike by 750 of the 1,300 people being held in the Tacoma ICE Detention Center made it clear that the GEO Group is continuing their history of abuse and corruption in Tacoma. For-profit prisons create a demand for prisoners that the GEO Group helps create by lobbying for more onerous laws that put more people in prison. This is wrong and needs to be stopped.

For-profit prisons have quotas, they don't want to end recidivism, they want a captive population. We have family members in ICE to meet quotas. We have more mentally ill family members in for-profit prisons than in mental health institutions. We have more prisoners than China, which has one billion more people than the USA does. We don't want to pay for these prisons-for-profit anymore. Put that money into mental health care, advocates, health services and affordable housing. Our communities need more support and services, not more prisons.