Please join us by signing onto this comment by Wednesday, October 20th, and sharing with your networks now so that we can meet that deadline. Our goal with the organizational sign on comment is to send a strong signal to the administration that issuing a public charge NPRM and final rule is a high priority and that there is substantial consensus among organizations around the country on the direction of the policy. We hope hundreds of organizations from all 50 states and DC sign onto the letter before the deadline. We will only be able to accomplish this with our diverse coalition of partners and hard working advocates from all over the country who are engaging in unique ways with their communities. Full text of the comment is available here.

PIF's State Policy Subcommittee has developed a comprehensive new resource for public officials to support immigrant access to health, nutrition, and housing programs and reduce the chilling effect of the public charge rule. The Toolkit for State and Local Government Officials presents 6 core recommendations and provides examples from across the country of positive practices to support access to public benefits, as well as templates of training for front-line enrollment staff and sample documents for adaptation. Advocates can use this tool to urge their state and local government partners to adopt best practices and advance immigrant access to benefits. Accompanying this toolkit is a resource specifically for elected officials, with easy to accomplish actions elected officials can take to mitigate the chilling effect of the 2019 public charge rule, with sample communications tools for elected officials to better inform their immigrant constituents about public charge and public benefits. A special thank you to Alicia Wilson at PIF and Andrea Kovach of the Shriver Center on Poverty Law for spearheading this toolkit, as well as to Tanya Broder at NILC, Elizabeth Lower-Basch at CLASP, and additional State Policy Subcommittee members for contributing to the toolkit.

The National Immigration Law Center is inviting people to participate in the 2021 DACA survey and share it with friends and family members. The data from the survey will help NILC in their continued litigation and advocacy to protect and defend DACA and win a pathway to citizenship for all. Any information shared through the survey will be entirely confidential. The resulting aggregate survey data will be accessible only by the survey research team of Professor Tom Wong, NILC, United We Dream, and the Center for American Progress. Published findings will not contain any personally identifiable information.