Join us in writing a letter:

We invite you to join us in writing to our state leaders to advocate for our neighbors. We want Oklahoma City to remain a city of welcome and belonging.

Below you will find some examples, but we encourage you to customize them and add any personal experiences or stories that you may wish to share.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at info@thesperoproject.com and we would
love to help.

With Hope,
The Spero Project Team

LETTER SAMPLES

Action Oriented Letter Sample

Dear Oklahoman Members of Congress/Specific Member and Congressional Staff,

My name is [insert name], and as your constituent from [City/Town], I am urging you and your office to fight for refugees who remain stranded in the U.S. admissions pipeline due to the ongoing refugee ban. 

Our refugee and immigrant neighbors are entrepreneurs, innovators, and valued members of any community they step into.

We cannot leave these individuals in limbo. I urge you to use your voice and oversight capacity to restore protections for those most at risk overseas. Specifically, I urge you to: 

• Honor the promise made to those refugees who were already approved for resettlement prior to the end of their program.

• Call for the inclusion of refugee populations like Lautenberg refugees in Iran fleeing religious persecution, Afghan evacuees stuck in Qatar, follow-to-join family reunification cases, and others in any amended refugee admissions ceiling.

• Condemn the resettlement of exclusively white populations through the refugee program when so many others are in need. The administration has proposed increasing the refugee ceiling by 10,000, yet is continuing to reserve all available slots exclusively for White Afrikaners from South Africa

• Ensure funding for accounts like the International Humanitarian Assistance account, the Migration and Refugee Assistance account, and the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance account are used to support displaced people in need rather than used to facilitate deportations, repatriations, and “third country” removals. 

Our community welcomes refugees, and I encourage you to do so as well. 

Thank you,
(Signature)

Effects Oriented Letter Sample

Dear Oklahoman Members of Congress(Or your specific Rep/Senator) and Congressional Staff (Or your specific Rep/Senator),

My name is [insert name], and as your constituent from [City/Town] and a [person of faith/refugee/member of my community], I am urging you and your office to fight for stranded refugees. 

The administration has recently increased the refugee ceiling by 10,000, yet is continuing to reserve all available slots exclusively for White Afrikaners from South Africa. 

The refugee ban continues to strand tens of thousands of refugees who had been through years of vetting and screening and were already approved for resettlement. Those stranded include:

• Iranians fleeing religious persecution in the Lautenberg Program pipeline.

• Afghan allies still stuck on the Camp As Sayliyah base in Qatar.

• Follow-to-Join family reunification cases in which refugees in the U.S. remain separated from spouses and children. 

• Refugees with severe medical conditions, unaccompanied refugee children, and those fleeing the world’s most devastating emerging and protracted displacement crises. 

This is a moral failure. I urge you to use your voice and oversight capacity to restore protections for those most at risk overseas. 

Oklahoma is a community with a reputation for our hospitality and treating everyone like our neighbors. It's time for our policies to reflect the Oklahoma Standard.

Thank you for your time,

(Signature)

Mail your letter to:

Senator Lankford
1015 N. Broadway Ave.
Suite 310
Oklahoma City, OK 73102

Mail Your Letter to:

Congresswoman Stephanie Bice
101 N Robinson
Suite 1105
Oklahoma City, OK 73102