PSJ Committee
Minute of Support to PYM for suit against DHS
Read at March 2, 2025 Business Meeting
“At the February 2, 2025 Meeting for Worship for Business, Medford Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends approved the following support of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM) for the courage and conviction shown in joining New England Yearly Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Adelphi and Richmond Monthly Meetings as plaintiffs in their lawsuit to block the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from its abrupt shift in policy that enables federal immigration enforcement officials to enter houses of worship for their immigration enforcement actions.
We see the new policy as a violation of the US Constitution’s guarantee of the free exercise of religion and hope the Court will “declare unconstitutional any policy permitting government agents to carry out immigration enforcement at or near houses of worship when the policy is limited only by individual agents’ subjective ‘common sense, vacate the 2025 Policy, and enjoin DHS and its constituent agencies from implementing or enforcing the policy.”
