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NEW
SANCTUARY
MOVEMENT PLEDGE
 The New
Sanctuary Movement is a coalition of interfaith religious leaders
and participating congregations, called by our faith to respond
actively and publicly to the suffering of our immigrant brothers
and sisters residing in the United States.
We acknowledge that the large-scale immigration of workers and
their families to the United States is a complex historical, global
and economic phenomenon that has many causes and does not lend
itself to simplistic or purely reactive public policy solutions.
We stand together in our faith that everyone, regardless of national
origin, has basic common rights, including but not limited to:
1) livelihood; 2) family unity; and 3) physical and emotional
safety. We witness the violation of these rights under current
immigration policy, particularly in the separation of children
from their parents due to unjust deportations, and in the exploitation
of immigrant workers. We are deeply grieved by the violence done
to families through immigration raids. We cannot in good conscience
ignore such suffering and injustice.
Therefore,
We Covenant To:
• Take a public, moral stand for immigrants’ rights
• Reveal, through education and advocacy, the actual suffering
of immigrant workers and families under current and proposed legislation
• Protect immigrants against hate, workplace discrimination,
and unjust deportation
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New Sanctuary Movement Pledge
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