Your voice matters! Help us get DHS & DOJ to team up and protect immigrant
family caregivers!
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Dear Friend,
“My wife is my caregiver. I am a U.S. Army Disabled Veteran and USCIS does
not want to grant her citizenship. We have been together and married for
over 20 years.”
- Esteban, MomsRising member
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Justice to use their powers and protect long-term resident caregivers!
*When you click, you’ll automatically sign on if we already have your
information.
What’s going on? Not only are immigrants 27 percent of the direct care
workforce, including home health aides, personal health aides, and nursing
assistants, many immigrants are caring for family members as well. [1] Too
often, immigrants, like Esteban’s wife, carry out significant caregiver
responsibilities for their U.S. citizen spouses or children but live in
immigration limbo without a pathway to citizenship or permanent status.
But there’s a simple solution! And it’s within the government’s hands to
resolve this, keep families together, and support caregivers. Under
current laws, already in place, certain immigrants who have lived in the
U.S. for 10 years, have passed background checks, and whose removal from
the country would cause exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to a
U.S. citizen (or green card holder) family member may request
“cancellation of their removal” before an immigration judge. What this
means is certain individuals, who are already in removal proceedings,
could ask the judge to “cancel” their removal if they’re a family
caregiver like Esteban’s wife. But the current process requires immigrants
to already be in removal proceedings. We need to make this process more
accessible for family caregivers.
[ [link removed] ]QUICK SIGNATURE: Let’s get government agencies to work together to help
protect immigrant family caregivers! *When you click, you’ll automatically
sign on if we already have your information.
Here’s the solution: We need the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to
direct their office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS) to collaborate with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Executive
Office of Immigration Review (EOIR). (Yes, it's a complicated alphabet
soup!) Together, these two offices, USCIS and EOIR, would work together on
rulemaking for a streamlined cancellation of removal process.
We know with our collective voices we can push USCIS and EOIR to work
together and make cancellation of removal more accessible for immigrant
family caregivers! We need to make it easier for family caregivers, not
harder. And removing more caregivers from our communities will not only
separate families, but also exacerbate the labor shortage in the
caregiving professions.
[ [link removed] ]Don’t forget to add your name! When you click, you’ll automatically
sign on to our letter that reads:
We urge you to support immigrant caregivers and their families. We know we
currently have a broken immigration system and while we support a wider
bundle of policies to protect long-term residents, we want to highlight
the efforts your offices can commit to right now to support family
caregivers.
Not only are immigrants 27 percent of the direct care workforce, including
home health aides, personal health aides, and nursing assistants, many
immigrants are caring for family members as well.
We need to make it easier for family caregivers, not harder. And removing
more family caregivers from our communities will not only separate
families, but also exacerbate the labor shortage in the caregiving
professions. We encourage your offices, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) and Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), to
work together on a joint effort and facilitate access to the cancellation
of removal process for immigrant family caregivers.
This action could help protect thousands of immigrant family caregivers
whose removal from the country would otherwise cause exceptional &
extremely unusual hardship to a U.S. citizen (or green card holder) family
member. This could also help keep families together and protect parents
with children who are U.S. citizens.
Please show your support for the moms, dads, and others who are caring for
their loved ones by supporting all efforts to protect immigrant families
and immigrant family caregivers.
[ [link removed] ]**Make sure to sign our letter now calling on DHS & DOJ to act now and
protect immigrant family caregivers! *When you click, you’ll automatically
sign on if we already have your information.
The more people who speak out, the bigger our impact. Please take a moment
to forward our action link to your friends and family and share it on
social media:
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Together we are a powerful voice for the wellbeing of immigrant children
and parents.
- Claudia, Felicia, Xochitl, Linda, Donna, Kristin, and the whole
MomsRising.org & MamásConPoder Team
P.S. [ [link removed] ]Do you have an immigrant caregiver in your life that you would
like to spotlight? Sharing personal stories is a powerful way to make an
impact.
References:
[1] [ [link removed] ]PHI: Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Support for Immigrant Direct Care
Workers and Meeting Long-Term Care Needs
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