Thanks to the generosity of Cedar Hills UCC—along with ongoing support from Havurah Shalom, Deportation Defense, and DSA partners—our Welcome Center has been strengthened and better equipped to show up for immigrant families.

Over the past month, your generosity has helped IMIrJ provide essential support to individuals detained at the Northwest Detention Center and to families facing sudden financial hardship. Here’s what your compassion made possible

As winter approaches, IMIrJ’s Welcome Center continues to serve newly arrived families and individuals seeking community and care. We are currently collecting essential winter items and pantry goods to support our guests, including jackets, blankets, hats, socks, and basic hygiene supplies.

We are thrilled to welcome our new board members to the IMIrJ family! Each of them brings unique skills, deep compassion, and a strong commitment to our migrant neighbors and communities. Together, we are building a more welcoming Oregon — one rooted in justice, connection, and love.

As Tim says, “The only thing you owe me is a hug.” These simple, yet powerful moments fuel IMIrJ’s Accompaniment Program, which offers compassionate, hands-on solidarity to migrant families—many of whom face systemic barriers.

“Presente!” Shouted the crowd in unison, 108 times. It became a chant, a prayer, a sacred word repeated. “Presente” a bold spiritual claim that dares fear and believes in hope and a courageous action of solidarity: to be present. We won’t let anyone turn us around…. “El pueblo unido…” Together we are “presente”.

IMIrJ partnered with APANO to train community leaders on building accompaniment programs that defend migrant communities. Leaders from the Asian Health & Service Center, Cambodian Community Organization, Hmong American Community Organization, Chinese American Organization, and others joined the effort.

There is something deeply sacred about the ways we come together as a community. Collective power, when shared, is not about one person carrying the load alone, it is about the many hands, voices, and hearts (offering what they can) to contribute to a shared vision. Each person brings a bit of their time, their energy, and their courage, and when those pieces come together, the load is lighter, and a choir of strength, resilience, and hop

President Trump announced the deployment of National Guard troops to Portland. As an interfaith community committed to justice and human dignity, the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice (IMIrJ) stands firmly with our migrant and immigrant neighbors in the face of fear, intimidation, and militarization.

We are putting together a volunteer team to support our English as a Second Language (ESL) classes and citizenship classes. We need your help! Our mission is to create a welcoming and effective learning environment and make a real difference in our community

All of your support of IMIrJ resulted in a power win for the migrant justice movement! On Thursday August 14th, the members of the International Executive Board of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) voted unanimously to support a Statement of Policy titled “Condemning Recent Attacks on Migrants.” In doing so the ILWU, a union of tens of thousands of workers—from Hawaiʻi to Canada to across the West Coast—comitted a powerful part of the labor movement to solidarity with the migrant justice movement.