Immigrants & Communities

Join us for Session 2 (July 1) – Building Community with Belonging Barometer 

See you at Session 2 : Belonging Barometer – Tools for Building Community Wednesday, July 1st, 10:30am-12:00pm CT (9:30-11:00am MT) on Zoom Come learn together as we dig deep into the belonging barometer for Session 2 of the 12th-annual statewide welcoming convening (virtual) summer series! We just wrapped up our first session with community leaders […]

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INVITATION: June 15 DACA Anniversary to Take Action for Permanent Solutions

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

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Updates

Congress Passes budget bill giving more funding to ICE

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

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Call to action

TAKE ACTION: Continue calling Congress. NO to billions more for ICE violence.

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

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Join community members from across Nebraska who are building thriving communities of belonging!

See you at Session 1: Roots of Justice – Reflecting on the past, building our future Wednesday, June 3rd from 10:30am-12:00pm CT (9:30-11:00am MT) on Zoom Dear Jaimee, We hope to see you at the first session of this year’s 12th-annual (virtual) statewide welcoming convening series, where we’ll share ideas and inspiration for community inclusion

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Call to action

Take Action Party on Monday: NO to billions more for ICE violence & detention

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

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News

Intervention in federal lawsuit to defend Nebraska’s in-state tuition law

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

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Call to action

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress NO to billions more for ICE violence and detention

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

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News

Update on McCook residents’ lawsuit to stop the ICE detainment camp

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

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Call to action

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress yet again NO additional billions for ICE violence

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

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