...I moved back to Buffalo about 3 years ago from El Salvador, and I had been looking to do immigrant rights work. I did some organizing on the ground in...
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Staff Series: Meghan Maloney de Zaldivar
NYIC Applauds Release Of Ravi Ragbir, Condemns Targeting of Activists
...Executive Director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City, a faith-based coalition devoted to immigrant rights, and a venerated, nationally recognized immigrants rights activist. Ragbir, a Trinidadian native,...
Get2KnowNYIC – Immigration Advocacy Program
...rights both locally and nationally. I sat down with Carlene Pinto, Immigration Campaign Manager, to learn more about this program. What is the focus and goal of your program? To...
New Video Shows Inhumane Conditions Inside ICE Detention Center at 26 Federal Plaza, ICE Breaking Oversight Law
...“The conditions on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza are a blatant violation of human rights and due process, and I was deeply alarmed by recently uncovered video footage...
Welcoming New York
...these documents and processes in the asylum seeker’s best language, including where appropriate, in Indigenous languages. Investigating Federal Civil Rights violations The Department of Justice should investigate and litigate, as...
Key Members of NY Congressional Delegation Back Using Budget Reconciliation for Pathway to Citizenship
...glaring inequities and civil rights violations present in our immigration system,” said Representative Yvette Clarke (NY-9). “As we work to reform our immigration system, we must always remember, and never...
Private: Immigrant Service Events Associate
...personally identifying information Prepare materials for partner organizations and for community members Deliver Know-Your-Rights presentations and represent the NYIC at community events and and / or help provide services depending...
Broad-Based, Statewide Coalition New York Counts 2020 Launches to Ensure a Fair and Accurate Census
...Trump Administration's reckless decision to suddenly abandon nearly 70 years of practice by demanding to know the citizenship status of each resident counted cuts to the heart of this sacred...
In Final Weeks of 2020 Census, Immigrant Advocates Debunk Myths to Get out the Count
...Office officials, elected officials, and immigrant rights advocates to get out the count. As of September 8, 58.8 percent of households in New York City have filled out the census...
After NYS Senate Passes NY HERO Act, Advocates Call on Assembly and Gov Cuomo to ‘Finish the Job’
...their customers via cooperative committees with employers. Citing reports of new and dangerous variants of COVID-19 spreading in New York, immigrant and labor rights advocates called on the New York...
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