Immigration Reform

Comprehensive immigration reform is an important issue to the NTF and its continued work to address violence against women. It is crucial to safeguard and enhance protections for immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and other abuses. Despite humanitarian provisions of U.S. immigration law intended to reduce these vulnerabilities, many obstacles to immigrant survivors' access to safety and justice still remain. 

NTF Letter to Congress RE: THE PRESIDENT’S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON FAMILY SEPARATION FAILS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS

An NTF letter outlining opposition to the "zero tolerance" policy of separating families.

NTF Statement on Attorney General’s Decision in Matter of A-B

An NTF statement denouncing the Attorney General's Decision in the Matter of A-B.

NTF STATEMENT ON DACA

An NTF letter to Congress asking them to respect and protect recipients of the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) program.

Statement Submitted by NTF

An NTF statement by 301 national, state, and local organizations urging U.S. House leadership to pass an immigration reform bill.

how comprehensive immigration reform affects immigrant survivors

This NTF advisory highlights provisions included in the bipartisan Senate immigration bill (S. 744) which specifically enhance protections for immigrant survivors. 

PRIORITY RECOMMENDATIONS by leading national experts to address violence against women in comprehensive immigration reform

While protections currently provided under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and U.S. asylum laws help some of these particularly vulnerable survivors, clarifying and strengthening these forms of protection so that no survivor falls through the cracks is urgently needed. Any comprehensive immigration reform effort must pay sharp attention to the needs of survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other gender-based human rights abuses.

Additional recommendations by leading national experts to address violence against women in comprehensive immigration reform

In addition to the key legislative reforms urged in the "Priority Recommendations," Congress can further protect immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other gender-based abuses in more ways.