...makeshift stopgap as a solution because we know all too well the human costs of deferring a real, lasting, and permanent solution. Senate Majority Leader Schumer has the power to...
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Advocates Protest Watered Down Immigration in Build Back Better as an Unacceptable Temporary Stopgap
Border Czar Tom Homan Threatens ICE Deployment to NYC, Escalating Attacks on Immigrant NYers
...agents who violate their constitutional rights in court, and bars schools, and state and local agencies from sharing information or facilitating civil immigration enforcement. Murad Awawdeh, President and CEO, New...
Advocates Protest Continued Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric of President’s SOU As ‘Distraction from Impeachment Inquiry’
...to defend and protect its immigrant communities from federal policies designed to hurt and terrorize our vulnerable families. Despite Trump's lies, New Yorkers know the truth - cities are safer...
Holiday Resource Fair Connects Asylum Seekers With Clothing, Services and Supports
...compassion and human rights by ensuring that our new neighbors have the assistance they need to lead healthy and dignified lives. The Council is proud to sponsor NYIC’s Key to...
With Critical Elections Looming, NYIC Executive Director Steve Choi Transitions to New Role as Senior Advisor
...He has transformed the NYIC into a fiery and impactful organization. We will be forever grateful to Steve for his contributions to the organization and the immigrant rights movement. We...
Mayor de Blasio, Invest in Our Immigrant Communities!
...proven that in-person assistance and “touches” or community based contacts are vital to knowing about option to coverage, navigation, and understanding our rights to health care, particularly among hard-to-reach populations....
Trump Admin Uses TSA Passenger Data to Expand Deportation Efforts
...that their rights can be stripped away at any moment. And every American should be equally worried that the erosion of immigrants’ rights is the canary in the coalmine signalling...
Immigrant Day Laborers and Community Allies Hold Anti-ICE “Buy-in” and Rally At Manhattan Home Depot
...a rally, picket line, chorus and speakers. Across the country, Home Depot locations have become flashpoints in a growing human rights crisis. Immigration raids at and around stores have led...
Ready, Set, Greenlight Campaign For Driver’s Licenses For All New Yorkers
...treated equally. We should have the same rights and benefits no matter the language you speak, the color of your skin, or the country where you are from. We all...
Immigrant Advocates Don’t Buy Secretary Ross’ Testimony on Citizenship Question
...rights groups against the administration’s attempt to target immigrant communities, challenging the addition of the citizenship question by adding an intentional discrimination claim. The lawsuit argues that adding a citizenship...