Our priority is those organizations making meaningful, measurable change within the key areas of our Healthy Community Framework—from arts and culture to health and wellness. We are in need of volunteers to staff the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network’s Rapid Response Hotline (1-844-RAID-REP). 10 ways to take action today: Donate Make a one-time or monthly tax-deductible gift via our website. Please do add any additional resources or institutions in comments, and we’ll continue to update this post.
Date Updated: March 4, 2020. Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda’s (Position 8, Citywide) JumpStart Seattle legislation received endorsements by nearly sixty organizations representing a broad coalition of labor, housing, faith, immigrant rights and community resiliency who are supportive of the progressive revenue proposal co-sponsored by Councilmembers González, Herbold, Strauss and Lewis. Seattle is a Welcoming City. The mission of the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs is to improve the lives of Seattle’s immigrant and refugee communities by engaging them in decisions about the City of Seattle’s future and improving the City’s programs and services to meet the needs of all constituents. Immigrant rights organizations: Purpose: Northwest Immigrant Rights Project promotes justice by defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education. With so much at stake in every election - jobs, education, immigration reform, and more - it's important for immigrant and refugee residents to become citizens, register to vote, and vote.We lacked quality data on numerous issues. We value inclusion and equity. This hotline is a key resource for helping community members report ICE activity in their communities and dispatch rapid response volunteers. This report may also spark ideas for other jurisdictions across America to break down barriers for their new immigrant voters as well.Also, the lack of immigrant and refugee voter data makes it difficult for city and elections leaders to understand what is needed to serve all Seattle residents. In May, the Policy Center and a coalition of immigrant organizations and Seattle leaders asked the governor’s office to create a Washington Worker Relief Fund of at least $100 million to be distributed to undocumented Washington state residents by community-based organizations. Seattle is a Welcoming City. You can find information on COVID-19-related services and programs here. Puget Sound Immigrant and Refugee Resource Organizations. They’re putting their money where their mouth is.Rachael Mitchell Okerlund is a witchy desert-dwelling writer and new mom with an affinity for books, tacos and the moon.Outside of RAICES, there are plenty more incredible initiatives happening all over the country advocating for immigrants and refugees, including right here in the Seattle area. Headquarters: Seattle: Region served . Nominees have often furthered the cause of immigrant and refugee rights on a national, state, or local level.
The Seattle Votes Survey campaign was a community outreach and engagement campaign to identify and better document the barriers to civic engagement for Seattle's immigrant and refugee residents.
Please help us continue these efforts, and join us as we endeavor to make refugees and immigrants welcome for another 40 years. In response to the complaint and the prior ruling issued by the DOA, DHS then announced a new policy generally prohibiting Border Patrol agents from acting as interpreters for other officials.Franco-Gonzales v. Holder, -- F.Supp.2d --, 2010 WL 5874537 (C.D.Cal. Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs temporarily closed. But, our civic engagement rates lag behind other groups. We value inclusion and equity. We took great steps to ensure that survey responses could not be traced back to an individual. We wanted to know the following:The survey was available in English, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional), Vietnamese, Korean, Somali, Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya, and Arabic. Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. Note that this is only a partial list; there are many other organizations that can help with immigration questions and issues, including a large number of city and town-specific groups. Previous award recipients include:The decision in this case came less than a month after NWIRP filed a separate complaint with the U.S. As members and supporters of immigrant and refugee communities, we have an opportunity to collect this data ourselves.The mission of the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs is to improve the lives of Seattle’s immigrant and refugee communities by engaging them in decisions about the City of Seattle’s future and improving the City’s programs and services to meet the needs of all constituents. to support.While that is, of course, tremendously inspiring, there are a few things we must remember:But people aren’t just talking.
WAISN RESOURCE FINDER. Asian Counseling and Referral Service 3639 Martin Luther King Way S. Seattle, WA 98144 (206) 695-7600 A multi-service organization serving all the different Asian Pacific American communities – immigrants, refugees and American born – in the Pacific Northwest. On Thursday, June 18th, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration unlawfully ended the DACA program.