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Immigration

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ICE activity is picking up in the Lancaster Area. It is hard not to feel helpless. Here are some concrete things that you can do:

1) Make sure people know their rights. ACLU has good information about the rights of immigrants
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights

2) If you know of ICE activity, call the Central PA hotline: PIRC has joined community organizations and community volunteers to create a hotline for those impacted by ICE activities! If you have been affected by ICE enforcement, call or text the hotline at 717-229-7452.

3) Donate to the Lancaster Neighbor Fund now. Our fund –managed by Parish Resource Center has started to receive applications more frequently. We provide quick funds to families who are affected by ICE in Lancaster County.

Lancaster Neighbor Fund

4) Spread the word about all of these resources and organizations. A quick like or share goes a long way!”

Immigration Team’s Key Issues:

  • Support Church World Service Lancaster – End the Furlough

  • Monitor and Resist ICE actions in Lancaster County (churches, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods).

  • Support Refugee Programs – spread information to counter disinformation. Provide physical, educational, emotional and other support to refugees who are already here. Defend the human rights of asylum seekers

  • Support Immigrant Rights – migration across borders for work is a fake “crime” conjured by xenophobes, resist and call out the scapegoating and othering of migrant workers on whom our economy depends, point out this hypocrisy at every opportunity, demand human rights for every person

Volunteer your time, talent or resources locally:

Parish Resource Center Immigration Clinic https://connectprc.org/

IU13 Community Education tutoring: https://www.iu13.org/community/community-education/volunteer/

Church World Services Lancaster: https://cwslancaster.org/get-involved/

Immigreat (financial donations only): https://www.immigreatlancaster.com/

Neighbors Community Center: https://www.neighborslancaster.org/

Stay informed:

Immigrant Legal Resource Center: https://www.ilrc.org/

ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights

National Immigration Forum: https://immigrationforum.org/

https://www.aila.org/library/daily-immigration-news-clips-march-6-2025

USCIS: https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status

Education

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Education Team’s Key Issues:

  • Oppose federal funding cuts to education
  • Oppose federal funding cuts to Medicaid
  • Support fair and equitable state funding for education in this year’s budget in light of the risk to federal funding
  • Oppose federal or state voucher schemes
  • Support cyber charter funding reform
  • Reject efforts to dismantle the US Department of Education

Join pro-public education groups doing great work in our community:

Public Education Advocates of Lancaster (PEAL)

Pennsylvanians for Welcoming and Inclusive Schools (PaWINS)

Red, Wine, & Blue

Education Voters PA

Support pro-public education school board candidates:

Click on pictures to find out more!

Manheim Township Democratic School Board candidates Shannon Zimmerman, Dr. Jessica McCardell, Cindy Lam, Mike McKenna

Find out more from the National Education Association:

https://www.nea.org/resource-library/communications-toolkit-department-education

Protecting Democracy

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We’re not going to pretend otherwise — the current situation is bleak. While Donald Trump is the dominant current story, even if he stepped down tomorrow, the root problem would remain, which is the increasing role of money in politics unleashed by the Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. the FEC Supreme Court decisions. In simple terms, the Supreme Court declared that corporations are people and money is speech. Combined with the first amendment, which guarantees people free speech, that opened the floodgates for unlimited spending on politics (a.k.a. bribery) — which is overrunning our democracy. While the fight won’t be easy, we’ve identified a list of four key issues (which may evolve as we go), and each month we plan to focus on actions for a different one. We’re starting with supporting journalism because we can’t fight what we can’t see, and quality journalism is how we know what’s going on.

Protecting Democracy Team’s Key Issues:

    • Supporting journalism, especially local and investigative

    • Opposing the influence of big money in politics

    • Opposing the concentration of power in government (nationally, this would be the increasing dominance of the executive branch, but this is also an issue on the state level where leaders in the legislature (who generally got to leadership by being big fundraisers) have way too much power over rank-and-file members

    • Supporting each other so that we don’t let discouragement or divisiveness get in the way of our being prepared to stand up for democracy as opportunities arise

Action items for supporting journalism (in priority order and to the extent you’re financially able):

      1. Subscribe to high-quality investigative journalism:

        • Spotlight PA – an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom dedicated to high-quality investigative and public-service journalism about the PA state government and urgent statewide issues

        • The Lever – a nonpartisan, reader-supported investigative news outlet that hold accountable the people and corporations manipulating the levers of power (founded by an award-winning journalist who’s also a former Bernie Sanders speechwriter)

        • ProPublica – an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism that shines a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust

        • Wired – Wired is a part of Condé Nast, which is a global mass media company (unlike the previous three recommendations), and they’re included here despite their big-corporateness because they have shown a remarkable ability to repeatedly be the first to expose important details about the inner workings of the Trump administration

      2. Subscribe to anywhere else you appreciate getting political news from (The Atlantic? Substack? Associated Press? CNN? Guardian US? NPR? The New York Times? Politico? The Intercept? More Perfect Union? your favorite political podcast?

Reproductive Rights

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Reproductive Rights Team’s Key Issues:

  1. PA FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act will be introduced soon by PA rep Lindsay Powell to ensure residents seeking reproductive health care can access clinics.  We can support passage.

  1. U.S. FACE Act – already a federal law which protects patients, providers, and health center staff from violence and harassment. It seeks to protect the facilities that provide reproductive health services, including pro-life pregnancy counseling services and any other pregnancy support facility providing reproductive health care. Trump  pardoned 23 individuals convicted of FACE Act  crimes. With President Trump pardoning FACE Act violators, it’s clear that his administration will not be enforcing this act.

  1. H.R. 21/S. 6. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act is a purposefully misleading anti-abortion bill intended to target providers and interfere with medically necessary care. Passed House.  Did not get through Senate, but it is on the watch list.  They are trying bad things.

  1. Global HER Act / H.R. 764 / S.280 – This Act would end Trump’s Global Gag Rule and prevent any future president from unilaterally imposing it again. The Trump Administration reinstated the deadly global gag rule, an anti-abortion policy that risks the health and lives of women, girls, young people, and LGBTQ+ people in communities around the world. This gag rule disproportionately affects BIPOC people and prevents foreign organizations that receive certain US assistance from providing, counseling, referring, or advocating for legal abortion in their country. In essence, this policy has elected officials interfering in health care around the world, which can result in the spread of diseases and increased numbers of (what should be) preventable deaths.

LGBTQ+ Rights

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 The Trump administration has made clear it is ending federal funding for LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention on July 17, leaving hundreds of thousands of young people at greater risk of suicide and harm. Show LGBTQ+ young people their lives are worth saving! 

Be an ally

An “ally” is someone who supports and advocates for a marginalized or underrepresented group, often those who are not members of that group themselves. They use their privilege and influence to challenge systemic biases and work towards equality and inclusion. 

Attend LGBTQ+ events to show your support

Join LGBTQ+ supportive groups doing great work:

Lancaster County Chooses Love

Trevor Project

Key Transgender Issues:

Trump signed all of the following anti-trans/LGBTQ+ executive orders:

Furthermore, a list of priorities published to the official White House website asserts Trump plans to “bring back American values” by “establish[ing] male and female as biological reality and protect[ing] women from radical gender ideology.”

These egregious attempts to demonize and erase transgender people must be resisted!

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