...care coverage for low-income and undocumented New Yorkers, immigrant justice and due process, refugee relations, and immigrant workers’ rights. Mae Lee, Executive Director of Chinese Progressive Association, said, “We are...
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Immigrants Vote! Campaign Registers 8,000 Immigrant New Yorkers, Plans Outreach to 45,000 More
Coalition Applauds State Education Department’s Inclusion of Immigrant Family Engagement in New York’s Draft ESSA Plan
...students, including, among others: the Blueprint for ELL Success, ELL Parents’ Bill of Rights, recent steps to identify and address the needs of very young ELLs, and recent guidance together...
Immigration Advocates to City: Expand Legal Services, Protect All New Yorkers!
...assist immigrants impacted by this crisis by ensuring that their due process rights are protected. We applaud the Mayor and the City Council for supporting New York immigrants and urge...
As Excluded Worker Funds Distributed, Advocates Warn About Danger of Leaving Western NYers Behind
Buffalo, NY-Immigrant rights advocates, organized by the New York Immigration Coalition and local members, Justice for Migrant Families of WNY and ACCESS of WNY, based in Western New York will...
Long Island Elected Leaders Demand Language Access Equity In Nassau County Police Department
...to protect the civil rights of all Nassau County residents. “It is essential that all residents have unfettered access to, and the ability to use emergency assistance services when they...
Immigrant Advocates Condemn Biden’s Capitulation to GOP’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda in Supplemental Budget Proposal
...reputation as a defender of human rights. This proposal does nothing other than exacerbate the humanitarian and operational challenges at the border, while advancing the extremist, anti-immigrant agenda of Trump’s...
Leaked CBP Document Show ICE and CBP Granted Extraordinary Powers During Pandemic Including Indefinite Surveillance and Detention
...Director of the New York Immigration Coalition, issued the following response: “We are at a tipping point of veering into a civil rights atrocity akin to the internment of Japanese...
Gov. Cuomo Abandoning Immigrant NYers on Frontlines of Pandemic in FY21 Executive Budget
...leadership to do the right thing today and restore funding for immigrant legal services. Thousands of lives are at stake." “New York needs to champion rights for all people," said...
Advocates Unveil a Comprehensive Plan to Address Educational Equity for Multilingual Learners/English Language Learners and Multilingual Families During the Pandemic
...multi-ethnic Community Based-Organizations (CBOs), educators and immigrant rights advocates, the comprehensive platform addresses the needs of MLLS/ELLS, their families, and their educators, as they adjust to remote learning and grapple...
BREAKING: Driver’s Licenses Coalition Applauds NY Senate’s Historic Passage of Green Light Bill
...to driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, we are guaranteeing safer roads, stronger economies, increased revenue, keeping families together, and most importantly protecting our children. In a time when immigrants’ rights...