New Way Forward Act

THE NEW WAY FORWARD ACT: 

• Pushes back on mass incarceration. It ends mandatory immigration detention and bans for-profit immigration jails. 

• Restores vital due process protections. It ensures immigration judges are no longer forced to deport people automatically, but can instead consider the individual circumstances of people’s lives so they can remain in the U.S. 

• Strengthens fairness. And it allows community members to move forward with their lives without fear that an old sentence could lead to deportation many years later. 

• Ends federal prison sentences and criminal prosecutions for people who cross the border seeking freedom, safety, opportunity, or to come home. 

• Advances racial justice. It limits deportation for convictions steeped in racial profiling. 

• Protects local resources. It ends the harmful practice of local police acting as deportation agents or carrying out mass deportations with ICE.

• Creates a process for people previously ordered deported to apply for the opportunity to come home to the U.S. and reunite with their families. 

To get involved in the #NewWayForwardAct Campaign:

https://newwayforwardact.org