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MWEG-Arizona Holds Vigil at the Border
Powerful moments at the Arizona vigil at the border wall. Participants were intently watched by border patrol agents the entire time, and the media turned up in force. One participant wrote: We had two television stations, two local newspapers, and a reporter from Buzzfeed. All stayed nearly the entire time. We sang, we prayed, and we shared our light – all with a backdrop of daily life in Mexico playing out behind us. As two children curiously watched us from the stoop of the bodega on the other side of the wall, I was moved by our common humanity. #familiesbelongtogether #MWEGvigil #arizona
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Announcing Protect Family Unity Vigil in Arizona
MWEG Protect Family Unity Vigil WHEN: 6-7 p.m., Saturday June 23 WHERE: Corner of International Street and Dunbar Street Nogales, AZ https://www.facebook.com/events/204584533524160/ Contact: Andrea Dalton Arizona chapter head, Mormon Women for Ethical Government (520) 891-1727 Andrea.Dalton@mweg.org Mormon Women call for action by people of faith to support humane and ethical means for immigrant family unity at border fence in Nogales, Arizona. Nogales, AZ — People of faith will gather at the Protect Family Unity vigil at 6 p.m. Saturday. Held near the Nogales Placements Center that holds detainees and children from Central America, Honduras and Guatemala, the vigil will consist of music…
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Announcing Protect Family Unity Vigil in Utah
MWEG Protect Family Unity Vigil WHEN: 6-8 p.m., Saturday June 23 WHERE: City Creek Park Salt Lake City, UT https://www.facebook.com/events/549074445489924/ WHAT: In response to our current administration’s “zero tolerance” policy at our southern border and the inhumane separation of thousands of children from their families, we and others of like-mind will gather on Saturday, June 23 at 6:00 PM at City Creek Park in Salt Lake City to pray, sing hymns, and read meaningful statements and scriptural passages in an effort to shine a light on this horrific situation. MWEG recognizes the need for the United States to protect its border and is…
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Official Statement from Mormon Women for Ethical Government on the Separation of Children from Their Families at the Border
May 31, 2018 Under the direction of the White House, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security are engaged in the unconscionable practice of separating children from their parents at the border in a horrific and misguided effort to discourage immigration. Many of these families are refugees who are fleeing unspeakable horrors in their home countries and are seeking asylum in the United States. As members of Mormon Women for Ethical Government we join with other individuals and groups from all across the political spectrum to unequivocally denounce this practice as cruel, inhumane, and entirely indefensible. Our democracy is founded on principles of honor, justice, and an absolute respect for…
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An Open Letter to Mitt Romney
March 28, 2018 Dear Mitt Romney, We represent the Mormon Women for Ethical Government, a large and growing nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to the ideals of decency, honor, accountability, transparency and justice in governing. A large percentage of our members live in Utah and would be your constituents if you were elected to replace Orrin Hatch in the United States Senate. Many of our members have supported you in the past and believe you to be a man of high moral integrity, wise judgment and firm principles. That is why we were so disheartened to read about your remarks on Monday to a gathering of Utah County Republican women in…
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MWEG Immigration Leads Travel to Washington, D.C. to Meet with Senators and Representatives
“We have worked hard and long to push for ethical, fair, and compassionate immigration reform in our country. Our members of Congress have had months to come up with a legislative solution that would provide protection to DREAMers, and they have failed to get it done. The March 5th deadline is now mere days away. Many have given up all hope. But we have not. Our immigration committee is working tirelessly behind the scenes on something that we hope might spur some of the more principled of our elected representatives into action. But it may take divine intervention. And so that’s what we are asking for. And we ask you…
