Immigrant support

[Gibs Farm]

Here are recent emails from SUN-ICS.  I hope concerned farmers will take action in support of immigrants and their families.

Gibby Knoebel

SUN - ICS <sun.i...@gmail.com>

Sun, Dec 14, 4:48 PM (1 day ago)

to SUN, bcc: me

Thank you for your interest in supporting immigrants in the Snyder, Union, Northumberland County area.  It's a busy time of year, we know, but we are asking you to take a few moments next week to use your voice during a statewide Day of Action. On Thursday, Dec.18, International Migrants Day, please call on Governor Josh Shapiro to end state cooperation with ICE.  These federal agents have been creating crisis and chaos, separating families, targeting people of color and those who are speaking a language other than English, detaining and deporting law-abiding residents from Pennsylvania and around the country.  

On International Migrants Day the Pennsylvania Immigration Council, ACLU of PA, and the Centre County Rapid Response Team are joining together for a statewide Day of Action urging Governor Shapiro to end Pennsylvania’s collaboration with ICE. For too long, Pennsylvania has shared data with and helped ICE detain our neighbors. But the good news is, @JoshShapiroPA has the power to stop this and he needs to act now.
 Call him: (717) 787-2500
 Text him: (717) 788-8990
 Sign the petition: https://give.elca.org/page/86940/action/1
Let’s insist the Governor take administrative action that protects immigrant communities across our state.

Sample message for the Governor:

Every day in Pennsylvania, families face impossible choices: the lack of needed policies protecting immigrants harms our farms, healthcare facilities, small businesses, schools, and families across the Commonwealth. We need your leadership and moral courage now, which is why we ask you to take the following immediate administrative actions: 

1.     Meet with immigrant rights organizations statewide.

2.     Make driver's licenses for all a priority by allowing your departments to support HB 1518.

3.     Remove ICE access to state records databases (JNET and CLEAN) without judicial warrants.

4.    End data sharing, communication and collaboration between state prisons and probation and ICE.

5.     Never lease a state facility to ICE.

6.     Prohibit state police from contacting ICE and from providing assistance, including perimeter, traffic, or other kinds of support.

7.     Prohibit immigration enforcement arrests in state facilities without a judicial warrant or court order. 

8.     Limit information collection, challenge federal overreach in benefit programs, and join federal lawsuits limiting access to personally identifiable details of service recipients.

9.     Develop webpages, and other forms of communication to inform immigrant communities about the current policies on immigrant access to health care and other public programs. Issue statements and publicly welcome refugees and asylum seekers to Pennsylvania.

Our communities are watching and organizing and we need your leadership. Please stand up for Pennsylvania immigrants.

It would be easy to look away, but we are grateful for your attention to this growing human rights concern.  We need every voice to be heard and we need you to speak up for the most vulnerable among us.  Thank you.

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Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 10:17:29 PM EST

Subject: A&P SUN Immigrant Support

Greetings, folks.  The Advocacy and Policy sub-group of the Immigrant Community Support network met Monday and we discussed how to proceed with the petitions.  Our next meeting will be Monday, January 5, at 5:30 pm. 

We decided we want to get more signatures and then try to schedule a meeting with the US Reps or their staff members.  A few of our folks - including maybe a sympathetic farmer or employer - could go to Rep Meuser's and Rep Thompson's local offices to present the petitions. If you know of folks who might sign - at holiday gatherings, book groups, social events -  please feel free to print the attached petitions. We want to use January 9 as a deadline.  Please remember that individuals should only sign these once, and only sign for the county where they reside - Meuser represents Northumberland County (including Milton and Sunbury) and the parts of Lycoming County (Williamsport and vicinity) while Thompson represents Snyder and Union Counties. Non-voters (including teenagers) and non-citizens can sign.  

We also discussed starting a phone-in campaign, maybe once a month (or more frequently) to focus on specific messages to specific leaders.  Our first opportunity to be part of a larger calling campaign to influence our leaders will happen on Thursday, December 18, 8:30am-7pm.

On International Migrants Day the Pennsylvania Immigration Council is joining the statewide Day of Action demanding that Governor Shapiro end Pennsylvania’s collaboration with ICE. For too long, Pennsylvania has shared data with and helped ICE detain our neighbors. But the good news is, @JoshShapiroPA has the power to stop this and he needs to act now.
 Call him: (717) 787-2500
 Text him: (717) 788-8990
 Sign the petition: https://give.elca.org/page/86940/action/1

Let’s urge the Governor to take administrative action that protects immigrant communities across our state.