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Attorneys and immigrant rights groups are demanding funding for the Liberty Defense Project, a program that provides legal services for immigrants that was cut from the 2020-2021 Executive Budget. Introduced to the budget in 2017, the Liberty Defense Project is the first state-funded program that partners with private organizations to […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a cease-and-desist letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Wednesday, arguing that the federal agency had no business in storming an upstate New York farm and arresting one of its employees earlier this month. During a press conference to discuss his letter, Cuomo called […]
Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda announced today a pair of bills that he plans on introducing in the upcoming legislative session. The bills, currently still without numbers, would seek to allow recipients of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, to keep their drivers license when the DACA program lapses in March […]
As college students across New York were settling into their first week of classes, the Trump administration announced on September 5 that it would be repealing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The DACA program allows children of illegal immigrants to study in the United States and seek employment […]
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is leading a multi-state lawsuit against the federal government after President Donald Trump’s move on Tuesday to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Schneiderman is suing for violation of due process rights and the equal protection clause, being that 78 percent of […]
New York’s governor and attorney general are threatening to sue the federal government after the Trump Administration’s announcement to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The legal challenge, announced preemptively on Monday by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, aims to protect more than 40,000 immigrants […]
With the Trump Administration focused on a range of immigration enforcement policies, Assembly Democrats have passed a series of bills that would protect immigrants’ private information, prohibit profiling by local police departments, and make it more difficult to deport undocumented New Yorkers for misdemeanor crimes. Alongside these new bills, […]
The Senate Democratic Conference has introduced their “resistance agenda,” to counter what they call “an assault on American values” by the Trump administration. The agenda includes two bills that harness protections for international SUNY and CUNY students, and prohibiting the Port Authority from manning the roll out of President […]