Please write to your U.S. Senators & Representative to ask them to cosponsor the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act. If one or more of your Members of Congress are already on as a cosponsor, the system will prompt you to send a thank you message.

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, including places of worship, such as churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples, as well as faith-based food pantries and service providers. 

On January 20, 2025, the Trump Administration rescinded the Protected Areas policy as it applies to immigration enforcement in previously protected areas. This move threatens the sacred tradition of sanctuary, the practice of welcoming immigrants and offering solidarity, support, and services regardless of immigration status in an environment that is free from the fear of immigration enforcement. For many of NRCAT’s interfaith organizational members, sanctuary is a tradition rooted in our religious traditions’ core values of love, compassion, hospitality, and protection of the most vulnerable. 

The Protecting Sensitive Locations Act would codify this policy that has been in place for over a decade. Passage of this Act would once again provide immigrants with a sense of safety in houses of worship, as well as health care facilities, schools, childcare facilities and other places where everyone should have a right to access without fear.

You can help by writing to your Members of Congress today.