Urge Congress to Extend the Lautenberg Amendment
Click for HIAS National's Page to send a letter to encourage your Representative to ensure that the Lautenberg Amendment is renewed without delay.
| Urge Congress to Extend the Lautenberg Amendment Critical refugee protection legislation needs your help! |
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The Lautenberg Amendment, which helps persecuted religious minorities fleeing Iran and the Former Soviet Union, expired on June 1, 2011. The provision must be renewed each year. A failure to reauthorize the Amendment would make it difficult for the U.S. to protect Christian, Jewish, Baha’i, and other religious minorities fleeing Iran and could end family reunification for Jews and Evangelicals in the Former Soviet Union with relatives in the U.S.