Over 220 Groups Oppose Racist Entry Ban from Trump Administration 

The below statement, led by Muslims for Just Futures and UndocuBlack Network with support from Building Movement Project, is an expression of the deep solidarity between organizations, movements, and coalitions to oppose the racist Entry Ban announced by the Trump Administration in June 2025.  

Today (June 9, 2025), as the Trump Administration implements the entry ban, over 200 groups raise our voices in solidarity to oppose it. Our groups represent a wide swath of communities, issues, and movements across the United States including immigrant rights, economic, gender, LGBTQ and racial  justice. We support all the communities targeted by the ban, which is the latest in a series of harmful policies affecting Black and Brown immigrants and their families both in the United States and in the Global South. We call upon elected, faith, and institutional leaders, and all people of conscience to join us in solidarity and to support vulnerable communities through the calls to action at the end of the statement. 

Our organizations work closely with communities nationwide, representing diverse faiths, nationalities, and racial and ethnic backgrounds. We oppose the targeting of our communities through anti-immigrant and racist policies, including the Trump Administration’s Entry Ban issued on June 4, 2025. The Trump Administration has revived a policy that disproportionately targets Black and Brown immigrants, particularly those from the Global South, and those from majority-Muslim countries and African states with a particular nod to the global nature of anti-Black racism, anti-Asian hate, and propaganda against Latinx-majority and Caribbean countries.

The Entry Ban suspends entry of people seeking to enter the U.S. from the following twelve (12) countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Furthermore, an additional (7) countries would be subjected to extreme visa restrictions, including Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.  (Proclamation, “Restricting the Entry Of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats”).  

The 2025 Entry Ban echoes the same sentiments as the previous Muslim and African bans, relying on fear-mongering and scapegoating rather than legitimate security concerns. Despite the Administration’s stated goal of reducing waste and governmental overspending, many countries targeted by the ban already experience disproportionately high U.S. visa denial rates and face extensive additional vetting, raising serious questions about the necessity, efficiency, and intent behind the policy. It raises significant constitutional concerns, undermines the credibility of U.S. immigration policy, and threatens to further damage the country’s international reputation, particularly with key allies across Africa and Muslim countries.

The 2025 Entry Ban is not an isolated policy, but merely the latest in a series of cruel and anti-immigrant policies implemented by the Trump Administration. Over the past six months, our organizations have witnessed an appalling disregard for human rights as mass deportations, increased surveillance, attacks on free speech, and the dismantlement of refugee and asylum pathways all wreak havoc on our communities.

The 2025 Entry Ban will have a range of  harmful consequences on the lives of people, on institutions, and on global relations. It will prevent people from coming to the United States to reunite with their families, to study or work,  or to seek vital medical care. U.S. citizens will be separated from their spouses, parents, or children who reside in targeted countries. The Entry Ban will also disrupt research, workplaces, and educational institutions relying on collaborations with individuals from banned countries. Additionally, the Entry Ban will further strain global relations between the U.S. and the targeted countries and will betray long-standing relationships with allies (in particular, Afghanistan). The Entry Ban will also impact Black and Brown community members here in the U.S. who may face increased surveillance, discrimination and targeting.

The 2025 Entry Ban is a part of the Trump Administration’s efforts to expand immigration enforcement and counterterrorism policies. It is rooted in the Administration’s national security executive order  (EO 14161) which expanded the use of extreme vetting policies; set the stage for the use of ideological screenings to suppress dissent and activism; called for funding denaturalization programs; and broadened terrorism-related inadmissibility grounds for migrants and asylum seekers. The 2025 Entry Ban goes further by requiring countries to enter into information sharing agreements and agree to other extreme screening and vetting procedures as may be mandated by the Administration. It places suspicion on people from certain countries as national security risks, opening them up to further surveillance, monitoring and vetting, and potential detention and deportation. 

The 2025 Entry Ban resembles the destructive Muslim and African bans from the last Trump presidency and will lead to discriminatory practices, chaotic implementation, and the harmful consequences of separating and terrorizing families.  It will place needless obstacles before ordinary people seeking to enter the United States in order to reunite with family members, start jobs, begin a course of study, or access life-saving medical care. In fact, communities are still bearing the burdens of the bans that targeted Muslim-majority and African countries during the first Trump Administration. Most individuals separated from their families have yet to reunite with their family members. Others, such as Mohammed Saleh, are mourning loved ones. Saleh’s 20-year-old son Ayman who resided in Yemen and needed treatment for a congenital heart condition was barred from the US due to the Muslim ban; he died in Yemen in 2021. Unimaginable stories like these could have been avoided had the bans not been in place then - and will undoubtedly occur again as a result of the 2025 Entry Ban.

For many communities, the Trump Administration’s executive orders and policies on immigration and national security represent authoritarianism and terror.  Throughout our country’s history - from the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II to the special registration requirements after September 11th to the first Muslim ban in 2017 - the U.S. government has used national security as a basis to deny fundamental rights to certain groups of people. It was wrong then, and it is wrong today. We stand in solidarity with all communities affected by the Trump Administration’s racist 2025 Entry Ban.

Here are ways in which organizations and allies can be in solidarity with impacted communities.

1. Encourage public statements of solidarity from civil society. We call upon nonprofit, faith, business, and civic leaders, as well as elected officials at all levels, to join us in making statements of solidarity and support.

2. Provide direct legal resources, access and representation: We call upon the broader immigration and refugee organizations to support communities directly impacted by the ban and existing anti-immigrant and national security policies. This includes organizing know your rights workshops with community members in order to share critical information while setting realistic expectations about legal limitations in an authoritarian environment.

3. Build Cross-Movement Solidarity: At this time, it is vital to develop broader local immigration, refugee and community defense efforts that are inclusive of the targeted communities to ensure no one is left behind.

4. Support Community Grieving, Care & Processing Spaces: In the first iteration of the ban, cultivating community-led processing spaces that infused culture, food, and storytelling with impacted community members helped to build community and support individuals in processing grief, fear, and trauma, including the emotional and psychological toll of state terror.

5. Support Economic and Community Actions: In 2017, thousands of individuals showed up at airports to protest the Muslim ban. In New York City, the Yemeni bodega strike marked one of the largest protests led by impacted communities and demonstrated the economic power of immigrant and refugee communities.  Actions like these can send the message that broad swaths of individuals oppose the 2025 Entry Ban.

6. Strengthen Sanctuary Movements: It is important to include the impact of the 2025 Entry Ban in efforts to strengthen and expand sanctuary movements at the local level.

Signatories:

Coordinated by Muslims for Just Futures and UndocuBlack Network, with support from Building Movement Project. See the full list of signatories below.

10Power

18 Million Rising

99 Coalition

A/PIDVRP

AAPI NJ

Acacia Center for Justice

Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE)

Adalah Justice Project 

Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice

Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE)

Afghan-American Foundation

Afghans For A Better Tomorrow

African Communities Together (ACT)

Al Otro Lado

Alexandria for Palestine

Alliance of Baptists

American Friends Service Committee 

American Muslim Advisory Council

ANAR

Anethum Global

APIA Vote-Michigan

Arab American Association of New York

Arab Resource & Organizing Center Action (AROC Action)

Arlington for Palestine

Armenian-American Advancement Network

ASATA Power

Asian American Advocacy Fund 

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)

Asian American Liberation Network

Asian American Pacific Islander Civic Engagement Collaborative (ACE) 

Asian American Psychological Association

Asian American Resource Workshop

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta

Asian Law Alliance 

Asian Law Caucus

Asian Refugees United

Aurora Commons LLC

AVAN Immigrant Services

Ayuda 

AZ AANHPI Advocates 

Beloved Community Incubator

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action

Black Lives Matter OKC 

Black Pacific Alliance

Blasian March

Building Movement Project

CAIR Washington

CAIR-CA

CASA

Casa Carmelita

Catalyst Project

Center for Constitutional Rights

Center for Economic Democracy 

Center for Gender & Refugee Studies 

Center for Security, Race and Rights

Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland

Chhaya Community Development Corporation

Chicory Wealth

Chinese for Affirmative Action

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)

Communities United for Status & Protection (CUSP)

Congregation Action Network

Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, U.S. Provinces

Decolonize Sudan

Defending Rights & Dissent

Detention Watch Network

Dignidad/The Right to Immigration Institute

DRUM - Desis Rising Up & Moving

East Bay Sanctuary Covenant

Education Justice Alliance 

Elmahaba Center

Emgage Action

Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC)

Envision Freedom Fund

Fairmont United Methodist Church--Raleigh, NC

Feminist Generation

Florida Student Power

Free Speech For People

Freedom for Immigrants 

Freedom Network USA

Freedom to Thrive

Frontera Federation

GALEO Impact Fund

Georgia AAPI Hub

Georgia Muslim Voter Project

Global Justice Clinic, NYU School of Law

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)

Grassroots Asians Rising

Haitian Bridge Alliance

HANA Center

Harrisburg Palestine Coalition

HEART

Highlander Research and Education Center

Hindus for Human Rights

Hmong Innovating Politics

Human Rights First 

IfNotNow Movement

Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef)

Immigrant Justice Network

Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Immigration Equality

Immigration Hub

Immigration Law & Justice Network

Immigration Law & Justice New York

Inclusive Muslims of Central Virginia

Jewish Voice for Peace 

International Refugee Assistance Project

Jahajee: Indo-Caribbeans for Gender Justice

Japanese American Citizens League, San Jose Chapter

Jewish Community Action

Jewish Voice for Peace 

Jews Say No!

Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice 

Kensington Corridor Trust

La ColectiVA

Leaders of Kenosha (LOK)

Make the Road NY 

Make the Road States

Mamas 4 A Free Palestine 

May First Movement Technology

MediaJustice

Metrowest Interfaith Community

Miami Valley Immigration Coalition 

Migrant Roots Media

Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue

MinKwon Center for Community Action

MontCo4P

Montgomery County Progressive Asian American Network

Movement for Black Lives

MPower Change Action Fund

Multifaith Voices for Peace & Justice

Muslim Advocates

Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC)

Muslims for Just Futures

NAKASEC

National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd

National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association (NAAPIMHA)

National Asian Pacific American Families Allied for Substance Awareness and Harm Reduction 

National Asian Pacific American’s Women Forum 

National CAPACD

National Immigrant Justice Center

National Immigration Law Center

National Immigration Project

National Iranian American Council (NIAC) 

National Lawyers Guild-Bay Area Chapter

National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund

National Partnership for New Americans

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

National Religious Campaign Against Torture

Natural Investments

NCAAT in Action

Never Again Action DC

New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice 

New York Immigration Coalition

Nicaraguan American Legal Defense and Education Fund, NALDEF 

North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT)

North Star Fund

NorthStar Asset Management

NY-09 for Palestine

Obran Capital Advisors

OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates

OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, Greater Cleveland Chapter

Ohio Immigrant Alliance

OPAWL-Building AAPI Feminist Leadership

Oxfam America

PARCEO 

Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA)

Peace Catalyst International

People Power United

Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee

Project Hajra 

Quixote Center

Resource Generation

Revolutionary Love Project

Right To Be

Rising Majority

Rising Voices

ROC-DC

Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network

Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus

Saint Paul Federation of Educators, Local 28

Sakhi for South Asian Survivors

San Jose Nikkei Resisters (SJNR)

Sanctuary Campus Network

SEAC Village

Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN)

Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign

Showing Up for Racial Justice 

Showing Up for Racial Justice NYC

Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)

South Asian American Justice Collaborative (SAAJCO)

South Asian Network

South Asian Public Health Association 

South Dakota Voices for Peace

Southwest Coalition for Palestine 

St. James' Racial Justice and Reconciliation Commission, Skaneateles, NY

Stop AAPI Hate

SURJ Northern Virginia

T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

The Advocates for Human Rights

The Center for Third World Organzing

The Festival Center

The Interfaith Center of New York

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

The MADE Institute 

The May 13 Group

The Sikh Coalition

The Sisters of Mercy of the Americas

The Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality 

Together for Brothers

Transgender Law Center 

UltraViolet Action

UndocuBlack Network

United Women in Faith

VECINA

VietLead

We Are All America (WAAA)

Western States Center

Win Without War

Wind of the Spirit Immigrant Resource Center

Witness at the Border

Women Cross DMZ

Women Watch Afrika

Women's March

Woodner Tenants' Union

Woori Juntos

Zevin Asset Management