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  • This Week in the World: Pope Francis' Legacy for Our Work

    This Week in the World | 

    This week, we joined in mourning the passing of Pope Francis.

  • Truth and Healing in the 119th: Key Differences and Updates

    Update | 

    For the past five years, FCNL has been advocating for a bill to establish a truth and healing commission to investigate the U.S. federal government’s role in implementing Indian Boarding Era policies. From the early 1800s to the late 1960s, the U.S.

  • FCNL Joins Partners Speaking Out for Dreamers

    Update | March 19, 2021
    This week, FCNL and our partners brought thousands of voices together calling for protections for Dreamers – the young immigrants who grew up in the U.S. without documentation.

  • Listening and Discerning Legislative Priorities

    Event | August 17, 2020
    Every two years, FCNL asks Friends around the country for help in setting the focus of our advocacy work.

  • Seeking Truth and Speaking it As Best We Can

    Update | August 9, 2023
    Nancy Milio’s passion for public health and advocacy led her to Quakerism and FCNL

  • 45 Days and a Budget to Go

    Update | October 4, 2023
    Congress came to an agreement last weekend to keep the government running for 45 more days. Now, they have just over six weeks to pass spending bills that protect and invest in key peace and justice programs.

  • The Power of a Question

    Update | October 6, 2020
    We’re approaching peak campaign season for the 2016 election. While the presidential contenders are getting the most attention, other candidates are also vying for your vote. Fourteen states will elect governors this year. Thirty-four states will elect a senator. And every congressional district — all 435 of them — has a House race on the ballot.

  • This Week in the World: ICE Detention Camps Face Moral and Legal Challenges

    This Week in the World | 

    Faith leaders, lawmakers, rights groups, and other advocates are challenging the Trump administration over inhumane conditions at the Everglades Immigrant Detention Center.

  • The Myth of “Right Way”—The Right to Asylum, Humanitarian Parole, and Refugee Resettlement

    Update | May 5, 2023
    Too often, when we talk about migration, the conversation gets reduced to the “right way” or “wrong way” to enter the United States. The tragedy of the U.S. immigration system is that we have dramatically reduced the number of humanitarian pathways that allow people to enter the country. Those that do exist are narrower and harder to access than many realize.

  • FCNL Condemns Military Escalation of ICE Raids

    Statement | 

    The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) condemns the escalation of violence by the Trump administration following the recent military-style Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in heavily Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles.