Immigration Policy

I was a peace corp volunteer and married to a Ukrainian and their treatment of war refugees and those running from war torn countries is cruel. I served my country for 28 months without leave only to return to my hometown with my wife to feel like criminals for doing the right thing, taking the proper steps, spending money and waiting patiently just for our petitions for support and documentation to be ignored.

Our family was forced to flee the war in Ukraine. We have nowhere safe to return.

We respectfully ask you to support Ukrainians who have lost their homes, jobs, and everything they worked for. Please allow us to keep our work authorization so we can continue to support our families, live with dignity, and contribute to our communities.

The ability to work legally provides stability, hope, and the opportunity to build a safe future while we remain unable to return home.

Thank you for your compassion, understanding, and support.

I am Iranian, and I support this petition. Millions of Iranians have been barred from entering the United States or living normal lives abroad due to the policies of the Islamic Republic. Why, then, are the families of Iranian government officials—who profit from repression and violence—allowed to live freely on U.S. soil while innocent people are being banned? Justice requires accountability, not privilege for those connected to power or to terrorist organizations.

All my life, I have hated the Islamic regime and the IRGC. I openly expressed my hatred toward them and risked my life several times when I was in Iran.

When I applied for a U.S. visa, it took me two years to get approved. Now these people—whose fathers are enemies of America (and the whole world)—are easily coming to the U.S. and living peacefully in the very country they call their enemy. This is not fair. They should not be here.

Their families threaten U.S. citizens and Iranians who oppose them, so why are they allowed to come here and do whatever they want? They should be removed immediately.
They cannot kill our children in Iran while their own kids live here in peace and wealth.

I am Iranian and my people are suffering under the Islamic Republic. Families linked to that system enjoy freedom and safety abroad while ordinary Iranians are jailed, tortured and killed. I do not think it is fair that they benefit from a democracy they did nothing to stand up for. I support this petition and believe they should be returned to Iran.

I am writing to you as an Iranian who has spent my entire life opposing the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). While living in Iran, I openly spoke out against this regime and repeatedly put my life at risk for standing on the side of freedom and human rights. Today, however, I am deeply disturbed to see individuals connected to the Islamic Republic and IRGC-affiliated families entering the United States with ease and living peacefully in the very country they publicly call their enemy.

Many of these families openly support a regime responsible for:
• The killing and execution of innocent civilians
• The killing of children and protesters
• Widespread human rights abuses
• State-sponsored terrorism

Even more alarming, some of these individuals have threatened Iranian dissidents and U.S. citizens abroad, yet they are allowed to live freely and safely inside the United States.

It is unacceptable that children are being killed in Iran while the families of those responsible enjoy safety, wealth, and freedom in America.

I respectfully urge Congress to:
• Investigate IRGC-linked individuals entering the United States
• Strengthen background checks for regime-affiliated applicants
• Enforce existing terrorism and sanctions laws
• Protect Iranian dissidents on U.S. soil

America must not become a safe haven for the families of those who terrorize the Iranian people.

Thank you for your time and attention to this urgent matter.

I'm a special education teacher, and it breaks my heart that children are being treated like this, especially kids that have genuine needs that are being ignored. Closing this place is the first step to healing

I look at my two young kids and cry thinking about what kids and their parents are enduring in these detention centers where abuse is the the operating system. These facilities must close and these kids and families returned to their communities.

As the mom of an autistic son, seeing these children trying to get through day after day is horrible! This detention center must be closed and all families returned to their homes! This is barbaric and is not America 🥹