2021 Virtual National Day of Action

This year, over 700 AILA members participated in National Day of Action (NDA) to urge Congress to:

• Provide a pathway to citizenship for the thousands of immigrants who call America home.
• Reform our immigration courts.
• Hold USCIS accountable for inefficient policy changes and crisis-level processing delays, and to return it to its customer-oriented mission.
• Reduce and phase out the use of immigration detention.

These are issues that AILA will continue to advance beyond NDA. Read more about each issue and how you can get involved!

Join AILA’s Campaigns

Support the Passage of the American Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6) and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R. 1603)

The American Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6) and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, FWMA, (H.R. 1603) passed the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support in March 2021. To enact these bills into law, the Senate must act and bring these bills up for a vote. Contact your senators today and urge them to support H.R. 6 and H.R. 1603.

• Take Action: Contact your Senators Today!

To learn more about legislation that provides a pathway to citizenship to unauthorized immigrants, visit AILA’s Legislation Moving Through Congress page.

Reform and Rehabilitate the U.S. Immigration Court System

America needs just and efficient immigration courts to ensure due process and the success of the entire immigration system. Take action and urge your member of Congress to make immediate reforms to guarantee judicial independence, fairness, and consistency in decision-making.

• Take Action: Urge Congress to Reform and Rehabilitate the U.S. Immigration Courts

To learn more about AILA’s recommendations to reform our immigration courts, read Policy Brief: Why President Biden Needs to Make Immediate Changes to Rehabilitate the Immigration Courts – February 12, 2021

#HoldUSCISAccountable

To learn more about AILA’s recommendations to hold USCIS accountable, read:

• Policy Brief: Walled Off: How USCIS Has Closed Its Doors on Customers and Strayed from Its Statutory Customer Service Mission – February 12, 2021
• AILA and Coalition Partners Send Letter to USCIS Urging Implementation of the Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act – March 1, 2021
• Policy Brief: How USCIS Can Dismantle the Invisible Wall Slowing Case Adjudication – March 5, 2021

Reduce the Use of Immigration Detention

AILA supports the passage of the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act introduced by Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07) and Adam Smith (D-WA-09) and Senator Booker (D-NJ). If passed, it would phase out the use of private detention facilities, promote community-based alternatives to detention, and end solitary confinement in immigration detention.

To learn more about AILA’s efforts to reduce and phase out the use of immigration detention read:

• AILA - Featured Issue: Immigration Detention
• Policy Brief: Moving the Nation Forward by Leaving Immigration Detention Behind – March 25, 2021
• The Immigration Justice Campaign - Impacted Individuals Build the Case to End Immigration Detention

Cite as AILA Doc. No. 17101761.