Share Your Immigration or Advocacy Story

Each year, the U.S. spends billions to detain and deport people. In the absence of congressional reform, this funding goes directly towards subjecting longtime contributors in our communities to unchecked and unaccountable detention and encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol.

How is your community experiencing detention and deportation? Personal stories from constituents could shift the tide as Congress considers pouring billions more dollars into immigration enforcement machinery. You can help our legislators understand the need to reverse course, and truly invest in our communities.*

(*Please feel free to call us directly and share your story over the phone, especially if you have concerns about how sharing this story could affect your or another person’s security. Contact Gabriela Viera, FCNL Program Assistant for Immigration & Refugee Policy at 202.899.1242)

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What direct experiences have you or your community had with detention and deportation? How it has impacted your perspective on the U.S. immigration system?

What would you like your Representative and Senators to know about your community as they are considering additional spending for detention and immigration enforcement?

We hope to share these stories with members of Congress or with FCNL's network of advocates to demonstrate how enforcement-only immigration policies are impacting communities across the nation. You can also share your story while maintaining your anonymity. Would you like to remain anonymous?

I would like to remain entirely anonymous. FCNL can share limited details directly with my member of Congress and their staff. FCNL can share my name, city and state. (We will notify you if we are using your story.)

FCNL staff may want to have a follow up conversation with you over the phone or video conference. Is it ok to contact you?

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How can we share your story?

FCNL staff can share my story directly with my members of Congress and their staff. FCNL staff can share my story broadly with Congress in our advocacy work. FCNL can share my story over social media. FCNL can share my story broadly with our network.

If the story you are sharing is about someone else, please indicate here your relationship to this person and whether you have their permission to share it.