The AFSC has been working in New Hampshire and other states to protect immigrant communities by helping congregations prepare to offer sanctuary, conducting “know your rights” trainings, accompanying people in deportation proceedings, advocating policies that separate local police from immigration enforcement, and helping immigrants find legal representation.

Fogarty said the next Interfaith Prayer Vigil for Immigrant Justice, which AFSC co-sponsors with the Granite State Organizing Project, United Valley Interfaith Project, and the NH Council of Churches, will take place next Wednesday, June 27, outside the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester at 8:30 AM.  The Quaker organization is also co-sponsoring a demonstration outside Dover City Hall next Wednesday evening at 6 PM.

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are abusive, unaccountable agencies whose primary mandate is the separation of communities, whether through separation of children from their parents at the border, devastating immigration raids, or the routine cruelty of detention and deportation,” said Arnie Alpert, co-director of the AFSC’s NH Program.  “We must do everything we can to take away their power to perpetuate these injustices.”

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