El Día de Abogacía para Inmigrantes y Refugiados será el 7 de febrero de 2024, en Olimpia, WA. Tendremos autobuses para recoger y llevar a los participantes a Olimpia. Regístrese para reservar su espacio en tinyurl.com/IRAD2024 antes del 12 de enero! #IRAD2024

Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Day will be on February 7, 2024 in Olympia, WA. We will have buses to pick up and bring participants to Olympia. Register for your spot at tinyurl.com/IRAD2024 before January 12! #IRAD24

¿Aún no se ha registrado para el Día de Abogacía para Inmigrantes y Refugiados (IRAD)? ¡Le quedan 4 días para reservar su espacio! Confirme su asistencia en tinyurl.com/IRAD2024

Still haven’t registered for Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy (IRAD)? You have 4 days left to reserve your spot! RSVP at tinyurl.com/IRAD2024

En el Día de Abogacía para Inmigrantes y Refugiados, presionaremos a nuestros representantes para que apoyen nuestras campañas primarias: Equidad en Salud para Inmigrantes y Seguro de Desempleo para Trabajadores Indocumentados. Regístrese en tinyurl.com/IRAD2024 antes del 12 de enero

This year’s Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Day (IRAD), we will be pushing our elected officials to support our 2 Primary campaigns: Health Equity for Immigrants and Unemployment Insurance for Undocumented Workers. Be sure to register for#irad2024 at tinyurl.com/IRAD2024 before January 12!

Grateful for the courageous leadership from @RepJayapal and other members’ efforts to grant Colombian nationals a Deferred Enforcement Departure designation. Let’s continue to build a world where undocumented Colombians and all immigrants have full political and economic rights and access to the resources we need to thrive.

El México Consulado en Seattle tiene pruebas de VIH gratuitas todos los lunes y miércoles durante el mes de octubre, así como una clínica dental gratuita el 1 de noviembre. Riegue la voz sobre estos servicios gratuitos. #SaludSinEstigma

📣 The Mexican Consulate in Seattle has free HIV testing testing each Monday and Wednesday during the month of October as well as a free dental clinic on November 1. Spread the word about these free services. #HealthWithoutStigma #SaludSinEstigma

There are so many widely varying experiences within our Hispanic and Latinx communities. Our #WAISN teammate Marleny is a formerly undocumented, first-generation, Mexican immigrant who grew up in a small dairy-farming town in North Washington. For Marleny, #HispanicHeritageMonth is a time for us to take up space, celebrate our rich cultures, reclaim our narratives, and honor the resilience of Latinx people. #HappyHispanicHeritageMonth

Being half Salvadorean + half Mexican, Liliana gets to celebrate El Salvador's Independence Day on 9/15 & Mexico's Independence day on 9/16. She also sees this month as an opportunity to celebrate Latinx culture with many styles of music, food, dances, history + traditions. 2/End

On #HispanicHeritageMonth it’s important to note the diverse ethnicities across our communities. For our teammate Liliana, an immigration justice advocate w/ roots in Mexico + El Salvador, this is a time to recognize the resilience + contributions of Latinx people in the US. 1/2

On #HispanicHeritageMonth, our Executive Director Catalina reminds us of the complexity & breadth of Hispanic + Latinx experiences across Washington state and to adopt a more nuanced view of Latin American communities. In reflecting on this month, Catalina sees #HHM as an opportunity to celebrate differences in what it means to be Latina in the U.S. while coming together by shared experiences resisting western histories of invasion and U.S. imperialism. We are multiethnic & multi racial people!

Our priorities have been identified by directly impacted community members and will advance efforts to keep immigrant communities safe, meet their basic needs, protect their rights, and increase their access and agency. Learn more about our 2024 Secondary and Tertiary policy platforms, WAISN’s campaigns and how you can get involved 2/

https://waisn.org/media-press/

📣 We are announcing our policy platform for the 2024 legislative session to build the rights, dignity, and power of immigrants and refugees in the state. Our #WAISN Primary 2024 campaign platforms will include advocating for the Unemployment Insurance for Undocumented Workers bill, and uplifting Health Equity for Immigrants by advocating for another budget proviso to expand healthcare access to immigrants across Washington. 1/

This #HispanicHeritageMonth, we’re celebrating the leadership of our #WAISN teammate Kenzie, a Queer Caribeña born in the Dominican Republic and raised between Puerto Rico and Miami. To Kenzie, this month is “a time to decolonize our minds and celebrate the traditions and histories that unite our cultures while embracing the Indigenous and African influences that make our heritage vibrant”. How are you celebrating this important month?

#HispanicHeritageMonth encompasses more than our races and ethnicities. Our #WAISN teammate Gaby, who is a Queer Boricua born and raised in Borikén, doesn’t necessarily relate to the term ‘Hispanic’ but considers herself hispanohablante (Spanish speaker).

To Gaby, #HHM is an opportunity to begin and continue conversations about how the Latine and Spanish-speaking communities are not a monolith: she sees Latinx identity as expansive and not defined by a single term.

Our response to news that President Biden has waived federal laws to allow for construction of Trump's border wall in Texas from Executive Director Catalina Velasquez:

“President Biden’s decision to continue construction of the deadly border wall is a craven betrayal of immigrant and Indigenous communities, particularly along the Southern border, and an abdication of his clear promise not to build another foot of Trump’s wall.”

Read our full release ⤵️

Estamos contratando un pasante de Investigación de Recursos para unirse al equipo de #WAISN. Este es un puesto contratado por 3 meses con un compromiso de 10 horas por semana y está abierto a residentes del estado de WA. Animamos a solicitantes bilingües + estudiantes indocumentados a aplicar. Visite waisn.org/careers para obtener más información.

📣 We’re hiring for a Resource Resource Fellow to join the #WAISN team. This is a 3 month contracted position for 10 hours/week and is open to residents of WA state. Bilingual applicants + undocumented students are encouraged to apply. Learn more at waisn.org/careers