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**PRESS RELEASE**For Immediate Release
Contact: Dan Gordon mailto:[email protected], 617-651-0841
Feb. 20, 2025

**Actions Run
Counter to Americans' Priorities, Key Constituencies' Principles**

The Trump administration plans to end temporary protections for Haitians early [link removed]. It has sent nearly 200 detained migrants - some of whom arrived in the U.S. lawfully - to Guant??namo Bay, Cuba [link removed], and it is deporting people to countries other than their countries of origin, raising safety concerns [link removed].??

It also has reassigned [link removed] personnel from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to focus on deportations rather than
illicit drugs, human trafficking, terrorist activities, and other pressing threats to public safety.

The actions are not aligned with Americans' priorities [link removed] and the principles of national security, faith and law enforcement leaders.

"Americans want safe communities, a secure border and a functional immigration system," said

**Jennie Murray, President and CEO of the National Immigration Forum**. "There is wide support for deporting violent criminals and focusing resources on threats to public safety. Recent actions go beyond that mandate and are alarming from the standpoint of human life and dignity, family unity, and compassion.

"The National Immigration Forum's principles [link removed] and those of our partners represent a reasonable
starting point for policies that honor our security and economic needs without sacrificing American values. We need the administration and Congress to work together on balanced solutions."

The principles of the Council on National Security and Immigration [link removed] include, among others, "proactively address[ing] vulnerabilities in our outdated immigration system," "robust and efficient screening and vetting, as well as effective border security measures," and also "welcoming the most vulnerable migrants in accordance with our domestic laws and international obligations and encourage other countries to do the same."

Similarly, one of the Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force's principles [link removed] reads, "State and local law enforcement should
target criminals, not contributing members of the community." The task force also notes that "When immigrants feel safe in their communities, we are all safer."

And the Evangelical Immigration Table's principles [link removed] call in part for immigration policy that "respects the God-given dignity of every person, protects the unity of the immediate family, respects the rule of law and guarantees secure national borders."

Murray and leaders from each of these groups are available for interview. Contact Dan Gordon mailto:[email protected].

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