Immigrants & Communities

Let’s honor contributions made by DACA community members by calling on Congress for permanent solutions! I wanted to invite you to join us via Zoom on Monday, June 15 to commemorate the 14th Anniversary of DACA by contacting Congress and urging them to provide a permanent solution for longtime community members!  Join us for a

Yesterday, Nebraska’s delegation and Congress took the unprecedented step of passing a toxic and irresponsible budget reconciliation bill providing an additional $70 billion of deficit spending for ICE violence and mass detention of neighbors. This action bypassed strong public opposition and the normal budget process to supply ICE with more funding – on top of the

Congress is likely to vote soon on a bill that goes around the normal budget process to funnel an additional $70 billion of taxpayer funds into ICE violence and mass detention plans. Public opposition successfully stopped this in the normal budget process (and has begun to slow this fast-track bill). But Congress is expected to return

Have you made your calls to Nebraska’s members of Congress yet? This upcoming vote on billions of additional tax dollars allocated to ICE violence is a really important one: Congress is expected to vote next week on a bill that goes around the normal budget process to give ICE and CBP (and the ballroom) an

On Thursday, Nebraska Appleseed and Democracy Forward, representing Orel Alliance and the True Potential Scholarship, moved to intervene in federal court to defend Nebraska’s longstanding in-state tuition law, which makes higher education affordable for all students who graduated from Nebraska high schools. Recently, the federal government filed a lawsuit challenging a 2006 Nebraska law that

Congress is currently considering a bill that goes around the normal budget process to give ICE and CBP (and the ballroom) an additional $72 billion. These funds would come on top of an unprecedented $170 billion allocated just last year to dramatically expand ICE and CBP operations, which has funded mass detentions and shocking violence against people, substantially

Last fall, more than 18,300 Nebraskans from 386 towns and cities signed a petition to stop Governor Pillen from opening a large-scale federal detainment camp in our state, saying “This is NOT who we are” – and we filed a lawsuit on behalf of McCook residents to prevent this harmful expansion of ICE mass detention. Though the lawsuit was dismissed in

Congress is yet again starting a process to designate additional billions of our tax dollars for out-of-control ICE agents on top of unprecedented billions already passed last summer through the big budget bill.  Despite strong public opinion against additional funding after witnessing ICE violence kill multiple people, a ballooning federal agent force overwhelming local communities