Petition to Restore Protections for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
Join the Disciples Justice Action Network (DJAN) and the Disciples Center for Public Witness (DC4PW) to safeguard immigrant children. With your signature, we demand that the government restore justice and vital protections to the most vulnerable.
Recent government actions have endangered unaccompanied immigrant children. On March 21, the U.S. government announced the near-total termination of the Unaccompanied Children Program, leaving thousands—including infants—facing immigration court proceedings without legal representation. Children as young as two have already been deported. This drastic change has eliminated asylum access for children, revoked protections in schools, churches, and hospitals, fast-tracked deportations, and targeted families sponsoring unaccompanied minors. These measures are unjust, immoral, and contradict our core values of welcoming the stranger and defending the vulnerable.
Stand with us—sign the petition to demand the immediate restoration of protections for unaccompanied immigrant children. Your signature is a powerful statement for justice, compassion, and the safety of every child.
SUPPORT THE PRO ACT
"And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so, on that day God rested from all God's work.” (Genesis 2:2).
“We believe in the right of the laboring man [and woman] to organize for protection against unjust conditions and to secure a more adequate share of the fruits of their toil." (Disciples of Christ, 1938).
Dear Disciples of Christ,
Our God worked to create the universe and, through this divine activity, endowed all work with dignity and worth; and this dignity and worth extends to all who work. Furthermore, in our Holy Scriptures, God expresses a strong concern about workers, especially those who are being mistreated, abused, or cheated out of what they are owed by their employers (see, for example, Deuteronomy 34:15, Jeremiah 22:13, and John 5:17).
Based on this Biblical affirmation of the dignity of work and the rights of workers, the General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada has affirmed the right to form unions (Res. 0720), denounced wage theft (Res.1326), and called for increases in the minimum wage on the way to a living wage (Res.0517). It is therefore consistent with both our understanding of the Scriptural imperative and our past support of worker justice, for us, as both faithful Christians and active citizens, to express our strong support for the PRO (Protecting the Right to Organize) Act.
This being the case, DC4PW (The Disciples Center for Public Witness and DJAN (Disciples Justice Action Network) invite you to read and sign a LETTER to your Senators and Representative, urging them to support and pass H.R.20 and S.567, the PRO Act. In this way, as part of our recognition of Labor Day, we can – as faithful Christians and engaged citizens - put our faith to work on behalf of greater justice for America’s workers.