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PROTECTING SENSITIVE LOCATIONS ACT (S.455 / H.R. 1061): Letter to Congress in support of The Protecting Sensitive Locations Act. Since 2011 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)s Sensitive Locations policy, also known as the Protected Areas policy, prohibited immigration enforcement actions in places that provided vital services important to well-being. In 2021, DHS announced a protected areas policy that strengthened and clarified the existing policy. However, on January 20, 2025, the Trump Administration rescinded the Protected Areas policy and instead directed immigration officials to use common sense as it applies to immigration enforcement in previously protected areas. The Protecting Sensitive Locations Act would codify the longstanding guidance into law and ensure that future administrations would not be able to so easily dismiss the protections in place.

ENDORESEMENT OF PROTECTING SENSITIVE LOCATIONS ACT: Legislation put forward in response to the announced rescission of the Protected Areas policy by the Trump Administration The legislation is mostly the same as last year's version, with a few updates that were made to the policy during the Biden Administration.

Since 2011 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)s Sensitive Locations policy, also known as the Protected Areas policy, prohibited immigration enforcement actions in places that provided vital services important to well-being. In 2021, DHS announced a protected areas policy that strengthened and clarified the existing policy. However, on January 20, 2025, the Trump Administration rescinded the Protected Areas policy and instead directed immigration officials to use common sense as it applies to immigration enforcement in previously protected areas. The Protecting Sensitive Locations Act would codify the longstanding guidance into law and ensure that future administrations would not be able to so easily dismiss the protections in place.

PRESS RELEASE TO PUBLIC, CONGRESS AND WHITE HOUSE ABOUT IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY: We already are seeing the tears and fears of immigrants and migrants just days into President Donald Trumps second term. These people are our brothers and sisters and never should be an after-thought. Rather, they - and we - must be central to the policies of our government. The executive orders and proclamations issued by President Trump regarding the border and immigrants are extremely tilted toward harsh outcomes over authentic security concerns. The National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd calls on the President and the new Congress to step back and search for a way to welcome those who want to build up the United States. We are a large country with much to give.

PARTICIPATED IN CATHOLIC SOCIAL MINISTRY GATHERING LOBBY DAY (Jan 28): Helped lead federal MD delegation. Asks included the need to preserve and support humanitarian protections for vulnerable families, including refugee resettlement.

OUTREACH TO REP SALAZAR'S OFFICE (R-FL-27): To inquire about any plans to reintroduce two bills introduced in the 118th Congress, the Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act (H.R. 1325) and the Dignity Act (H.R. 3599), and how NAC could best help in their promotion.

REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM: Letter urging the Trump Administration to resume refugee resettlement and restore humanitarian assistance to recently arrived refugees.

FUNDING FREEZES FOR PRO-IMMIGRANT CITIES AND STATES: Letter to House expressing opposition to funding freezes for pro-immigrant cities and states. As we and the courts reckon with the Trump administration's funding freezes, we are hearing the House may vote on a bill to give it vast authority to block funding to states and cities that do not facilitate mass deportations. But, unlike the funding freezes, this bill would have Congress's stamp of approval.  

H.R.32, the "No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act" would allow the Trump administration to block education, transportation, housing, food aid, public health, crime prevention and many other forms of federal funding for jurisdictions that don't cooperate with ICE requests.

URGE CONGRESS TO ENSURE LEGAL SERVICES TO UNACCOMPANIED MINORS ARE ASSURED GOING FORWARD: This alert invited network members to send letters to their congressperson to ensure federal contracts with lawyers that support UCs are renewed in March 2025 when current contracts end.

Children should not have to go before U.S. judges alone. The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, which passed into law with great bipartisan support, requires that the Department of Health and Human Services ensure legal representation of unaccompanied children (UCs) to the greatest extent possible. It acknowledges that attorneys often serve as the only confidential trusted source to whom children may disclose information about mistreatment. Money to support legal aid to unaccompanied minors was halted February 19. But then HHS resumed these funds on February 21 after a public outcry.

HOUSE ADVOCACY AROUND PREVENTING VIOLENCE AGAINST IMMIGRANT WOMEN: Sent targeted advocacy opposing Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act (H.R. 30) (NAC opposes this legislation as it would expand the circumstances under which domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, stalking, and sex offenses would constitute grounds of inadmissibility, as well as expand the definition of domestic violence to be considered for inadmissibility or deportability grounds. These measures would negatively impact immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and fail to alleviate the primary barriers to safety and stability experienced by survivors seeking relief under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

NAC is especially troubled that this legislation fails to include waivers that take into account the needs of the victim or their family, and that it will limit the discretion that judges can exercise where the equities warrant, including situations where survivors who are inadvertently caught up in the criminal legal system will be harmed.)

NAC STATEMENT ON UNACCOMPANIED MINORS ACCESS TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: NAC called on the Trump Administration to unfreeze funds and allow pub-private partnerships to do their jobs and help vulnerable children safely navigate the U.S. court system.

OPPOSE IMMIGRANT DETENTION AT GUANTANAMO BAY: Letter demanding accountability from DHS and ICE regarding the transfer and detainment of immigrants at Guantanamo Bay.

The United Nations has condemned Guantanamo Bay for unrelenting human rights violations, and experts confirm it fails to meet U.S. legal standards for detention facilities. Yet, the Trump administration is expanding its capacity to hold up to 30,000 immigrants. Despite using public safety as a justification-many immigrants who have been transported and cruelly detained are classified as low-risk with little to no criminal record.

Reports of abuse, inhumane conditions, and suicide attempts among detainees are deeply alarming. To ensure the safety, dignity, and fundamental rights of our immigrant neighbors are preserved, the letter demands immediate accountability, the cessation of transfers, and access to counsel for any who are detained.

HOME IS HERE - OPPOSE DHSs HARMFUL REGISTRATION RULE: The sign-on opposes the Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) Interim Final Rule on Alien Registration (DHS Docket No. USCIS-2025-0004). This harmful rule revives an outdated and dangerous registration requirement for undocumented immigrants, exposing them to detention, deportation, and even criminal prosecution. This rule is part of a long history of anti-immigrant policies that have targeted and terrorized immigrant communities under the guise of registration. Letter sent to DHS and USCIS.

U.S. REFUGEE ADMISSIONS PROGRAM (USRAP): Letter urges Secretary Rubio to protect and restore the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) - House members invited to sign on. Led by Congresswoman Ansari, the letter describes how the indefinite refugee ban, termination notices of resettlement contracts, and funding freeze for reception services undermines Americas longstanding commitment to humanitarian protection and places tens of thousands of vulnerable people at risk.

Today, newcomers are being denied safety and congressionally mandated assistance. Without action, refugees will remain stranded abroad, recently arrived refugees will be at risk of homelessness, and resettlement offices will close.

INTERIM FINAL RULE ON ALIEN REGISTRATION: This sign-on is a comment letter opposing the Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) Interim Final Rule on Alien Registration (DHS Docket No. USCIS-2025-0004). This harmful rule revives an outdated and dangerous registration requirement for undocumented immigrants, exposing them to detention, deportation, and even criminal prosecution.
The letter makes clear that our (Advocacy Organizations) collectively demand: the administration must rescind this rule immediately. This rule is part of a long history of anti-immigrant policies that have targeted and terrorized immigrant communities under the guise of registration.

OPPOSITION TO PROPOSED RULE ON MARKETPLACE INTEGRITY AND AFFORDABILITY: The sign-on letter strongly opposes the proposed rule titled "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability" (CMS-9884-P), published on March 19, 2025. This rule seeks to exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients from the definition of lawfully present, stripping them of their ability to access affordable health care through the ACA Marketplace. This proposed change is a direct and unjust attack on immigrant communities, including members of our campaign and the broader movement advocating for the rights and well-being of undocumented youth.

ALERT IN SUPPORT OF UNACCOMPANIED MINORS: Urged network to act to restore legal aid to unaccompanied immigrant children. Request to NAC Constituents to email their representatives and senators to restore critical legal aid to these children so that they are not left to face our complex court system alone, making them susceptible to bad actors and unjust deportation. The Administration failed to renew contracts for programs that provide this vital legal support, leaving the children vulnerable to human trafficking, exploitation, and other harms.

USRAP ADVOCACY: NAC sent message to Senate offices, urging members to join a Dear Colleague Letter led by Senator Padilla objecting to the Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). The letter describes how the indefinite refugee ban, termination notices of resettlement contracts, and funding freeze for reception services undermines America's longstanding commitment to humanitarian protection and places tens of thousands of vulnerable people at risk.

USRAP ADVOCACY: NAC sent message to House offices, urging members to sign a letter led by Congresswoman Ansari urging Secretary Rubio to protect and restore the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). The letter describes how the indefinite refugee ban, termination notices of resettlement contracts, and funding freeze for reception services undermines America's longstanding commitment to humanitarian protection and places tens of thousands of vulnerable people at risk.

STATEMENT ON LEGAL AID FOR UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN: "Unaccompanied Migrant Children Left Vulnerable to Exploitation While in the Governments Care" Statement by Fran Eskin-Royer, Executive Director
National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd Statement urges Congress to take action to reverse the Administrations distressing March 21 decision to strip critical legal services away from unaccompanied migrant children, ending vital legal aid programs and leaving the children vulnerable to trafficking, exploitation and other harms.

DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS (DACA) RECIPIENT LOBBYING: Advocated with other MD Catholics following the USCCB Changing the Narrative Immigration Conference. Visits focused primarily on bolstering support for DACA recipients.

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PARTICIPATED IN CATHOLIC SOCIAL MINISTRY GATHERING LOBBY DAY (Jan 28): Helped lead federal MD delegation. Asks included the need to pass Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations immediately and ensure the highest levels of funding possible for international poverty- and hunger-reducing development and humanitarian assistance in Fiscal Years 2025 and 2026. Also urged Congress to ensure all budget decisions support children and families and help them flourish, especially those experiencing poverty.

HOUSE BUDGET RESOLUTION OPPOSITION: NAC was part of a brief and unifying letter, opposing the House Budget Resolution. As a member of the coalition, NAC joined in this effort to bring people together around this issue.

BUDGET RECONCILIATION: PROTECT FAMILIES AND FRIENDS: Sent letter to Congress outlining four principles for Reconciliation. The letter sent a clear message on NAC's and collaborator agencies' priorities. The four principles are: Promote an Economy for All, Create A Fairness Tax System, Keep Families Together, Foster Stewardship of the Earth.

CONTINUING RESOLUTION ADVOCACY: NAC sent out message urging House and Senate members to vote NO on the Continuing Resolution, and instead to work together in good faith to fully fund vital programs that support families, seniors, and other vulnerable people from the impacts of rising costs. In contrast, the CR makes substantial cuts to programs that help keep costs down in housing, healthcare, veterans services, seniors services, and more.

FAMILY-CENTERED NATIONAL BUDGET: Quote for Faithful Witness Wednesday focused on Women and Children: Fran Eskin-Royer, Executive Director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, said: For the children. NAC was founded to be a voice for the children and their moms, especially those in vulnerable situations or living on the margins. We are participating in these Faithful Witness Wednesdays to ensure that children and families are remembered and included in the federal governments budget. We are here to keep families safe from unjust funding cuts and chaotic Executive Orders issued by President Trump.

The United States of America has been a successful, if imperfect, experiment in democracy for nearly 250 years. In this new climate, the faith community has joined together for Faithful Witness Wednesdays to raise our voices and ensure that our nation stands freely for another 250 years. We embrace our moral voice and call for greater leadership from Congress to prevent overreach by the Executive Branch and to guarantee that funding continues for programs helping individuals in need, especially for the children.

ALERT TO PROTECT SNAP AND MEDICAID: Congress is preparing to vote, as early as February 25th evening, on slashing Medicaid funding and SNAP benefits, and leaving low-income families without care or food assistance. We urged our network to join with our partners and communicate with their legislators to make clear that we strongly condemn making such cuts.

CONTINUING RESOLUTION LOBBY VISITS: With NETWORK and other WISC members, NAC visited / lobbied Democratic Offices of Senate Members undecided about their vote on the Continuing Resolution, as well as those leaning toward voting yes on the Continuing Resolution.

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JUBILEE 2025 - GLOBAL DEBT: Sent letter calling on the G20 Finance ministers to take meaningful action to deal with the global debt crisis that has crushed many lower-income countries who are forced to spend more on debt repayments than on climate, health, and education priorities.

ENDORSEMENT OF UNRWA EMERGENCY RESTORATION ACT (S.898): NAC endorsed this legislation that will end the congressionally and administratively mandated pause on funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA). With the Israeli Governments recent implementation of legislation to terminate UNRWA operations in East Jerusalem and President Trumps Executive Order that prohibits the United States from providing any assistance to UNRWA, Congress must urgently restore funding to UNRWA to ensure the Agency can continue its essential role in providing humanitarian assistance to starving civilians, medications for the injured, and shelter to the displaced. Continuing to block U.S. funding to UNRWA doesnt just impact civilians in Gaza, but millions of other Palestinian refugees across the region including in the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. If UNRWA closed its doors, we could see even more regional instability and violence. Key allies like Jordan have come to Congress requesting UNRWA funding be restored and citing the national security implications should UNRWAs work be disrupted.

UNRWA RESTORATION ACT AND PALESTINE REFUGEES: As a way of complimenting the upcoming rollout of the 2025 UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) Funding Emergency Restoration Act to be introduced by Representatives Carson, Jayapal, and Schakowsky, the NGO sign on letter to Congress is from the groups endorsing the legislation. The letter calls on Congress to actively re-engage with the Administration with the goal of resuming U.S. support to UNRWA.

ENSURE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS: With this action alert, NAC urged its network to act with Catholic Relief Services to call for the reinstatement of foreign assistance. NAC supports CRSs effort to ensure humanitarian assistance, organizations are able to access money to implement lifesaving programs. NOTE: We are a global family, and all the U.S. money used for international aid constitutes less than 1% of our Nationals budget.

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OPPOSE THE SAVE ACT, H.R. 2: Sent letter to the House urging Representatives to oppose the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act represents a shameful, divisive attempt to prevent millions of eligible U.S. citizens - disproportionately Latinos and other voters of color - from registering to vote. It amends the National Voter Registration Act to require onerous documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and contains numerous other harmful provisions designed to restrict participation by lawfully registered voters.

VOTE NO ON THE SAFEGUARD AMERICAN VOTER ELIGIBILITY (SAVE) ACT: Sent letter urging Members of the House to VOTE NO on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. This legislation, which unjustly imposes documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, is a clear attempt at voter suppression that undermines the integrity of our electoral process and violates our shared religious values.

The SAVE Act perpetuates the false narrative of widespread noncitizen voting and voter fraud, claims that have been thoroughly debunked. By furthering these harmful falsehoods, the bill demonizes immigrants and communities of color while creating unnecessary barriers to the ballot box for eligible voters-especially those from marginalized communities, including communities of faith.

The SAVE Act will disenfranchise millions of citizens, eligible voters, nationwide. For example, 69 million women across the country would not be able to register to vote with their birth certificate, because their married name doesn't match their name on their birth certificate. And countless citizens may not have or may not be able to access a passport: As of 2023, less than half of Americans possessed a passport. In short, this bill will make it impossible for scores of eligible citizens to vote.

SAVE ACT ADVOCACY: NAC sent message to House offices, urging members to vote NO on the SAVE Act (H.R. 22), an anti-voter law due to be voted on soon. The SAVE Act promotes a false narrative of widespread noncitizen voting and voter fraud, a claim that has been thoroughly debunked. By perpetuating these falsehoods, the bill demonizes immigrants and communities of color while creating unnecessary barriers to the ballot box for eligible voters.

JOHN R. LEWIS VOTING RIGHTS AND ADVANCEMENT ACT: Quote for Press Release issued around the reintroduction of John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (NAC was an endorsing organization): The right to vote was restricted to a small group when our republic was founded. Over the course of the last 100 years, all of Americas citizens of age won the right to vote. Regrettably, in practice, many of them have continued to see unconstitutional restrictions put in their path especially in the last number of years as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been picked apart. In this 60th anniversary year, the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd is here to stand strong and declare our support for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. We call on Congress to act quickly to pass this foundational bill restoring voting rights as we near Americas 250th birthday, said Fran Eskin-Royer, Executive Director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.

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SOCIAL SERVICE BLOCK GRANTS: Sign-on letter urging Congressional leadership to protect the Social Services Block Grant. State and county governments use SSBG funds to support human service programs, including protecting children, older adults, and people with disabilities from abuse and neglect, adult day care and foster care, childcare, in-home support, as well as both home-delivered and congregate meals. SSBG and its flexibility helps state and local governments address gaps or shortfalls in many program areas and helps communities better serve their families.

Many of the Good Shepherd corporate programs have been recipients of these grants through their states.

FOSTER YOUTH / HUMAN TRAFFICKING ADVOCACY: Corresponded with Sen. John Cornyns office on the reintroduction of the Find and Protect Foster Youth Act, offering support and help (S.1146).

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SSI SAVINGS PENALTY ELIMINATION ACT: NAC endorsed and advocated for the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Savings Penalty Elimination Act during the 118th Congress. The bill made meaningful progress building a strong, bipartisan consensus on the need to raise the SSI asset limits to better support low-income individuals with disabilities and older adults. The bill now has new co-leads in the Senate and an expected reintroduction timeline. The text is similar to the last bill, except for updated effective dates. NAC has endorsed the bill again in the 119th Congress.

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CHILD-FOCUED MEDICAID: This sign-on urged members of Congress to reject policies that will result in cuts to Medicaid and CHIP. This letter uplifted the unique role Medicaid/CHIP plays in protecting the health and well-being of over 37 million children.

In it, First Focus highlighted how Medicaid/CHIP serves various communities of children, such as those in military families, residents of rural areas, children in foster care, and children with special health care needs. The sign-on also uplifted the ways Medicaid/CHIP addresses specific issues such as mental health and infant and maternal health.

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FEDERAL NUTRITION PROGRAMS: Sent letter to Congress pushing back against proposals to cut, gut, and/or weaken SNAP and child nutrition programs. The House and Senate Budget Committees were poised to markup their budget reconciliation bills and then issue funding instructions to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees and House Education and the Workforce Committee (among other committees). Members of these committees - and the entire Congress - needed to hear a roar across the country, and from every congressional district, that cutting and/or weakening access to critically important food and nutrition programs was completely unacceptable

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SUPPORT FOR CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU AND ITS WORK: Sent letters to Congress:

1. advocating for a strong and independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
2. expressing support for the CFPBs rule removing medical debt from credit reports and its
guidance on unlawful medical debt collection practices, and opposing efforts to overturn them.
3. expressing support for the CFPBs overdraft fee rule and opposing efforts to overturn it;
the position supports everyday people rather than big banks. Banks should not profit off the
struggles of working families through excessive, back-end overdraft junk fees.

CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAUS OVERDRAFT RULE ABUSE BY BIG BANKS: Last week (March 24), the Senate voted in favor of S.J.Res.18, a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus Overdraft rule. The Senate vote was 52-48, mostly split among party lines with all Dems voting No and Senator Hawley - the only Republican to do so - choosing to break from his party and vote No as well.

This week (March 31) NAC joined others in asking for a shift in some votes in the House to no and protection of other key CFPB rules, shielding the most vulnerable from abuse at the hands of the Big Banks!

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NUCLEAR ARMS REDUCTIONS: The sign-on is an interfaith letter urging renewed diplomatic efforts to reduce nuclear weapons arsenals. It calls for bipartisan action to pursue arms control agreements and reduce nuclear weapons arsenals, particularly between the U.S, Russia, and China. President Trump has recently acknowledged the financial and existential dangers of nuclear weapons and his desire to pursue nuclear weapons reductions. This is a critical moment to advocate for diplomacy over escalation.

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LOW-INCOME HOUSING: Sent letter opposing mass firings at the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Department. HUD is a key federal agency dedicated to addressing our most pressing housing, community development and homelessness challenges and serves millions of renters, homeowners, and people experiencing homelessness. Attempts by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to terminate at least half of all HUD employees, if successful, would be detrimental to communities across the country: shelters will close, construction of homes and community centers will halt, households receiving rental assistance will face immediate rent increases or evictions, victims of discrimination will not be assisted, and communities impacted by disasters will not be able to rebuild.

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INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL COMMISSION: On February 27, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska, Chair of Senate Indian Affairs Committee) reintroduced the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act. This legislation would create a federal commission to investigate, document, and hear testimony related to Indian Boarding Schools. These schools, many of which were run by churches, attempted to assimilate Native children by any means necessary. Participation in the work of the Commission will be voluntary for all groups, including churches. 

This sign-on letter to the House and Senate expresses signatories' support to the Commission.

INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL COMMISSION: NAC joined this interfaith letter in support of Lisa Murkowski (Alaska, Chair of Senate Indian Affairs Committee) who recently reintroduced the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act. This legislation would create a federal commission to investigate, document, and hear testimony related to Indian Boarding Schools. These schools, many of which were run by churches, attempted to assimilate Native children by any means necessary. Participation in the work of the Commission will be voluntary for all groups, including churches.

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MINIMUM WAGE: Endorsed legislation, Raise the Wage Act (H.R. 1611), to increase the federal minimum wage to $17 over five years and phase-out the tipped, 14(c), and youth subminimum wages. The bill text is identical to the text introduced last Congress.

CHILD LABOR LAW - PROTECTING CHILDRENS ACT: HR.4440: Letter of support for the ambitious, far-ranging new domestic child labor bill from Rep. Bobby Scott and Rep. Alma Adams. The "Protecting Children Act," would increase fines by a factor of 10, establish minimum child labor fines for the first time, invoke criminal penalties for extreme cases, and strengthen the Department of Labor's ability to prevent the sale and movement of products of illegal child labor. It also has new research requirements, enables private enforcement, and establishes a new National Advisory Committee on Child Labor. This bill also has language that would apply pressure on the Department of Labor to improve occupational safety rules for children on farms - a priority of the Child Labor Coalition for the last dozen years.

It is one of four bills that seeks to increase civil monetary penalties substantially-something DOL Wage and Hour has asked Congress to do.

PAYCHECK FAIRNESS ACT: Letter in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act. The bill was reintroduced by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-3) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) on this years Equal Pay Day, March 25th. The bill has not substantially changed since the last Congress (H.R. 17 / S.728 in the 118th Congress). Given the existing pay disparities, it is imperative that we work to bolster equal pay protections and ensure fair compensation for all through bills such as the Paycheck Fairness Act. The Act would strengthen the Equal Pay Act by barring retaliation for discussing pay; prohibiting reliance on salary history to determine pay; providing women with the same remedies currently available for race and ethnicity-based discrimination; closing loopholes that allow employers to pay women less than men for equal work; and including measures for data collection and research.

STATEMENT CALLING ON ADMINISTRATION TO REVERSE COURSE ON CHILD LABOR: Workers in the United States and around the world now are being put at greater risk because the Trump Administration has just cancelled all of the grants distributed by the U.S Department of Labors Bureau of International Labor Affairs. Yet, even more concerning for the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd is the children, said Fran Eskin-Royer, Executive Director of NAC. Children from Brazil to Democratic Republic of Congo to Uzbekistan to Malaysia now are more likely to be injured or even to be trafficked.

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AMERICAN FAMILY ACT TO PERMANENTLY EXPAND THE CHILD CARE TAX CREDIT (CTC): Sent letter to House members supporting the reintroduction of the American Family Act (AFA) that would permanently expand the monthly Child Tax Credit (CTC), increasing the value of the credit and making it fully refundable so it reaches all children in need.

TAX THE BILLIONAIRES: Letter urging Congress to protect programs that working families depend on.

Just 800 billionaires control over $6.22 trillion-more wealth than the bottom half of all American households combined. This concentration of wealth and power is threatening the health and safety of everyday people, unleashing a constitutional crisis, and wreaking havoc across our society.

Billionaires are flooding our political system with money to gut consumer protections. They're profiting from fossil fuels as extreme weather devastates our communities. Their investment firms are gobbling up family homes, jacking up rent and putting homeownership out of reach for working Americans. Their private equity takeovers of healthcare facilities are extracting profits and taking more of our money while denying us care.

Congress must confront this dangerous concentration of wealth head-on.

NEW TAX CUTS FOR WEALTHY & CORPORATIONS IN 2025: Sent letter to House and Senate opposing new tax cuts for the wealthy, big businesses, and big corporations at the expense of working families and people across America.

PARTICIPATED IN CATHOLIC SOCIAL MINISTRY GATHERING LOBBY DAY (Jan 28): Helped lead federal MD delegation. Asks included the need to ensure that all tax and budget decisions support children and families and help them flourish, especially families experiencing poverty.

PROTECT IRS FUNDING: NAC previously signed on to a coalition letter in support of protecting IRS funding originally passed under the Inflation Reduction Act.

With reports the Trump Administration has requested to fully rescind the enforcement funding to protect wealthy tax cheats, in addition to concerns that appropriators may be willing to bend to this demand, Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) asked us to join an updated letter opposing the Administration's request to rescind funding.

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ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING ADVOCACY: Met with staff in Rep. Chris Smiths office re: reintroduction of Frederick Douglass TVPRA in 119th Congress (reintroduced Feb 7) and how best to support its movement in Congress.

TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR ADVOCAYC: Outreach to office of Rep. Fry (R-SC-7), lead sponsor of H.R.1379 - Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2025, expressing support for this legislation and offering NACs assistance. Its focus, helping human trafficking survivors heal and thrive by promoting the vacatry of certain of their convictions and expungement of certain of their arrests experienced while being trafficked, is critical.

ISSUE: COMMUNITY SAFETY AGENDAS PARTICULARLY YOUTH RELATED CONCERNS: Community Safety Working Group offered non-profits like NAC an opportunity to sign-on to their agendas (Legislative Agenda and Approps 26 request). They note that there is overlap with the juvenile justice work including support for bills such as The Opening Doors for Youth Act and the Full-Service Community School Act:

These agendas began three years ago, fueled by a knowledge that long-term success on building safe, thriving, equitable communities required offering lawmakers an affirmative agenda for what safety could and should look like - a vision rooted in care and community response, not reinforcing a criminal-legal system that disproportionately harms people of color and other vulnerable communities. These agendas answer the if not this, then what? question so prevalent on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. And, most of all, they anchor the advocacy agenda of our coalition.

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CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM: Sent letter to Congress about the role of key programs in serving children and families in or at risk of entering the child welfare system. Pending reconciliation legislation this year could reduce funding for these programs. Hence it was a critical time to educate policymakers about how they support families before any legislation comes together.

FAMILY ACCESS TO PUBLIC BENEFITS: Letter to Congress as it considers a number of dangerous proposals that would restrict access for low-income, working class, and immigrant families to critical safety net programs and slash funding for Medicaid and SNAP. These harmful measures threaten the well-being of all of our communities and undermine our shared commitment to public health, racial equity, and economic justice. This sign-on letter asks Congress to reject these measures.

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EDUCATION: Letter to Secretary Rubio requesting a meeting to discuss the termination of education programs, which (if any) programs were saved, and how preserved programs will be administered at State.

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MINING REGULATORY CLARITY ACT: Letter to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee prior to hearings regarding a very problematic bill that grants mining companies greater access to public land for ancillary uses such as dumping of waste, pipelines and roads. This is an opportunity for us to highlight the Washington Interfaith Staff Communitys extractive industries working groups faith principles for sourcing minerals for the energy transition and to offer support for the Mining Waste, Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act, which was introduced recently by Sen. Lujan of New Mexico; this is the same bill that was known as the Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act that many in WISC supported in the past two congresses.

President Trump hinted in his address to Congress on March 4t that he will issue a subsequent executive order to open up more public lands for extraction of natural resources.

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SUPPORT FOR SENATE RICHARDSON WAIVER: Senators Wyden, Markey, and King soon are introducing a Senate resolution that urges Health and Human Services (HHS) to withdraw its recent policy statement rescinding the "Richardson Waiver," which will limit the circumstances under which HHS must publish proposed rules for public comment before those rules are finalized. NAC is supporting this legislation.

As you know, public notice and comment are critical to a transparent and evidence-based regulatory process, one that ensures health care rulemaking and implementation of laws appropriately consider the needs of all relevant consumers, communities, and stakeholders. Since 1971, bipartisan administrations have upheld the "Richardson Waiver," which establishes that rulemaking related to HHS agency management, grants, benefits, contracts, and loans are subject to notice and comment procedures. But earlier this month, HHS announced it would be backtracking from over fifty years of precedent by reversing the agencys long-standing practice of soliciting public comments on the full array of proposed rules, effective immediately.

In contrast to the transparency this administration has promised, eliminating notice and comment for changes to health care programs bypasses feedback on major policy changes from patients, employers, researchers, health care advocates, clinicians, hospitals, drug and device manufacturers, and even states and localities.

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OPPOSE SHELL OIL'S DIRTY DEALINGS IN NIGERIA: A letter led by Nigerian civil society groups pushing back against Shell's dirty dealings in the region and the company's continued attempts to dodge its responsibility to clean up its enormous amounts of pollution. The groups are requesting a strong contingent of global sign-ons to help bolster their case and shine a light on the dangerous precedent that would be set if Shell escapes its liabilities without cleaning up the vast oil pollution caused by its operations in the Niger Delta and without compensating the hundreds of thousands of people whose lives and livelihoods this pollution has affected.
Sent to: Wael Sawan, Shell Chief Executive Officer, Shell Oil (with ccs to Shells plc Executive Committee - Sinead Gorman, Philippa Bounds, Robin Mooldijk, Rachel Solway, Huibert Vigeveno, Zoe Yujnovich)

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