The Supreme Court announced today that it has rejected the Trump administration's effort to subject travelers who are grandparents or cousins of Americans to the president's travel ban on six Muslim majority countries.
Steve Choi, Executive Director of New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), responds:
“Today's decision reaffirms what we already know: Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions do not get to define what family means.
Yesterday, a federal judge in Hawaii ruled that grandparents, other close relatives and refugees should be exempted from President Trump’s executive order: a ban restricting access for travelers from six majority Muslim countries without a “bona fide relationship” to someone in the United States.
Release film 48 Hours of Resistance about the grassroots resistance at JFK in January
New York—Last night, just hours before Trump’s Muslim and Refugee ban went into effect, The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) and advocates rallied in protest at Union Square.
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Tomorrow, The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) and Make the Road will be on the ground again at JFK airport, monitoring the effects of Trump’s revised Muslim and refugee ban.
The Supreme Court announced today that it will review the challenge to Trump’s revised travel ban, and will keep the ban from taking effect for people who have a connection to the United States. In response, Steven Choi, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition, issued the following statement:
"By agreeing to hear Donald Trump's discriminatory Muslim ban, the Supreme Court is ignoring the precedent set by the lower courts, which have found it to be plainly unconstitutional and wrong.
The current political climate has brought fear and uncertainty to immigrant communities, leaving them vulnerable to scams
In light of increased anxiety in immigrant communities across the country, the New York Immigration Coalition and Qualitas of Life Foundation released a new guide that details the steps immigrant New Yorkers can take to understand and safeguard their finances, regardless of their immigration status.
Together with Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez and NYCLU
New York---As part of Immigrant Heritage Month, the New York Immigration Coalition, together with Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) announced the Times Square launch of its “This Is Our New York” (TIONY) ad campaign.
Earlier today, New Yorkers gathered at the Department of Homeland Security building in downtown New York to call attention to the millions of fathers who spent Father’s Day separated from the families due to this country’s unjust mass incarceration and immigration detention systems.
Initiative trains youth to mobilize communities in light of current political climate
A second cohort of New York City immigrant high school students graduated from the New American Youth Leadership Corps (NAYLC) and led an immigrant youth conference this June.
Earlier today agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were at the Queens County Criminal Court House looking for at least one individual in the trafficking court: a special court for criminal defendants who are suspected of being trafficking victims.
