clergy & faith leaderS’
toolbox for immigrant justice

Everything in this toolbox was checked by opening it, on August 6, 2026. That is not the same as being right, and a resource list that pretends to certainty it doesn’t have is worse than one that admits its gaps. So, plainly:

  • Detention statistics move monthly. Re-pull them the day you print and label them with a date.
  • The 287(g) claim about the eight North County municipalities is unverified. ICE’s own participating-agencies list must be checked in a browser before that appears anywhere in print.
  • We publish no phone number for the Ste. Genevieve or Greene County jails, because we could not verify one. Do not fill that gap with a guess.
  • No official source documents clergy or chaplain access at any of the four facilities. Do not imply that it exists.
  • The Johnson Amendment is in motion. Section 6 is a starting point, not legal advice.
  • The status of ICE enforcement at “sensitive locations” including houses of worship is genuinely unsettled, and it is a legal-liability question. Get it in writing, dated, from an attorney licensed in Missouri — the MICA Project or Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. Do not let anyone paraphrase it from memory, including us.
  • Episcopal Church resources are missing from section 2 because their website blocks automated readers, not because they don’t exist. Someone should fill that in.
  • One warning worth passing on. The domain sanctuarynotdeportation.org appears in many older faith-and-immigration resource lists, including one still linked by Freedom for Immigrants. It has lapsed and now serves an unrelated commercial gambling site. Strike it from anything you distribute. The same is true of mira-mo.org and faithvoices.org.

If you find something wrong here, that is not an embarrassment — it is the most useful thing you can send us.