After a long andhard -fought campaign working as a team with organizations and the city, on July 27th 2018 we...
Defending ICE Hold Victory
In April 2014, New Sanctuary Movement and the Philadelphia Family Unity Network (PFUN) coalition won a landmark campaign to separate the Philadelphia Police Department from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), making our communities safer from deportation and keeping immigrant families together. After years of community organizing, the Executive Order ending all cooperation between the police and ICE was signed by then-Mayor Michael Nutter on April 16, 2014. The PFUN coalition includes 1 Love Movement, Juntos, New Sanctuary Movement, Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition, and Victim/Witness Services of South Philadelphia.
To learn more about what it took to win the original Executive Order against all police/ICE collaboration, click here.
In November 2015, then-mayor Nutter stated he would rescind key pieces of his own anti-deportation Executive Order just weeks before he left the mayor’s office. After a vigorous campaign to defend the Executive Order, Nutter rescinded it just eight days before leaving office, on December 22, 2015. However, thanks to the tireless opposition from New Sanctuary Movement and PFUN, the newly elected Mayor Jim Kenney re-instated the 2014 policy on his very first day in office on January 4, 2016.
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Fighting to Stop PA Anti-Sanctuary Bill, HB 1885
On Monday, Oct 17th, the PA House of Representatives passed HB 1885, the Anti-Sanctuary bill, 136-55. The following week the bill...

200+ PA Clergy deliver letter opposing Anti-Sanctuary bill, HB 1885
Members of the Pennsylvania faith community delivered a letter signed more than 200 faith leaders, urging state lawmakers to reject...

Thanking Mayor Kenney for standing strong as a Sanctuary City
After Mayor Kenney yet again re-affirmed Philadelphia’s status as a “Sanctuary City” – that all police and jails will not...

Philly stands strong as a Sanctuary City
Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson held a meeting with New Sanctuary Movement, the coalition Philadelphia Family Unity Network, Councilwoman...

Victory! Mayor Kenney ends all police-ICE collaboration on his first day in office!
Philadelphia Mayor Kenney fulfills his promise to the immigrant community and signs an Executive Order on his very first day...

Hand-delivering bread made by undocumented workers on Kenney’s first day as mayor
On Monday, January 4, 2016, Mayor Kenney’s first day in office, we hand-delivered him bread made by undocumented workers immediately...

Mayor Nutter re-starts local deportations 8 days before leaving office
Despite repeated and increasing objections from the community, Mayor Nutter signed an executive order re-instating connections between Philadelphia jails and...

Reflection: Putting our bodies on the line to stop Nutter’s deportations
On Friday, December 11, 2015 in Philadelphia, eight New Sanctuary Movement members and supporters – undocumented people, clergy and citizens – sat...

Civil Disobedience at City Hall: We shut it down!
At the 48 hour deadline for the “People’s Executive Order,” New Sanctuary Movement returned en masse to City Hall. We sent...

48-hour deadline for Mayor Nutter to sign the “People’s Executive Order”!
On Wednesday, December 9, the PFUN coalition delivered the “People’s Executive Order” ending all collaboration between police and ICE with...

Action at City Hall: 105 “NO” letters
After 105 organizations across the city and country signed the open letter saying “NO” to Nutter’s plan to re-instate local...