Dear John,

Right now, U.S. asylum and humanitarian parole programs are at grave risk of being traded away in negotiations over supplemental funding. Proposals that seek to restrict asylum and humanitarian parole will create more border chaos, not less. And blocking vulnerable immigrants from seeking access to safety endangers their lives and the lives of their families.

Call your Senators. Call your Congressional Representative. Tell them not to compromise away U.S. legal protection for vulnerable immigrants. Tell them to vote against any compromise that limits asylum or humanitarian parole.

Attacks on asylum and humanitarian parole masquerade as “border security” measures. In fact, they add nothing to border security and, instead, will increase border chaos.

The lives of vulnerable and persecuted people must not be reduced to bargaining chips in partisan deal-making.

Call your Senators. Call your Congressional Representative. Tell them not to compromise away U.S. legal protection for vulnerable immigrants. Tell them to vote against any compromise that limits asylum or humanitarian parole.

In solidarity,

Veena Iyer

ILCM Executive Director