Senior Consultant for Advocacy
Shoulder to Shoulder
The Evacuate our Allies Coalition of faith, veterans’, and human rights groups has been advocating for an Afghan Adjustment Act (AAA), to allow our Afghan evacuees (many of whom have only been admitted as “parolees” whose status will expire 1 or 2 years from entry) to be treated equivalently to “refugees,” and thereby made eligible to apply for permanent residence in the U.S. after 1 year here (with the requisite vetting). We now have a good shot to have AAA language passed by Congress, as part of the Ukraine Supplemental appropriation now being sought by President Biden. The AAA has solid Democratic support as well as notable and increasing Republican support, but proponents can use assurances of additional Republican support to assure that AAA language remains in a bill that gets passed by Congress.
If any of you are veterans, can characterize yourself as front line workers with Afghans resettling in the U.S., or are constituents of the Republican Senators you’ll see listed in this toolkit (or have friends who fall into these categories that you can circulate this message to), we urge that you make calls to any of the listed Senators (by cob May 9), at the numbers indicated, using the script you’ll also see in the toolkit, Thanks very much for your help!
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This message comes from Gary Sampliner, an executive director of JAMAAT — Jews and Muslims and Allies Acting Together, a DC area organization that is a member of the Evacuate our Allies Coalition. Thank you Gary, for all that you, the veterans in AfghanEvac, and the Evacuate our Allies Coalition does for America and humanity!
🇺🇸Due Process Forever!
PWS
05-08-22