new york immigration coalition

"Reform Immigration For America": business, labor, CAP, NCLR, CHIRLA begin new push; summit, townhall meeting; John Quigley - 6/01/2009

A new group called "Reform Immigration For America" recently launched in order to push for comprehensive immigration reform, aka amnesty. They're a coalition of business, labor, and far-left/racial power groups; see their slick site here: reformimmigrationforamerica.org. A surprising variety of amnesty hacks this side of raving extremist (or thereabouts) is involved with their organ...

NY Daily News conducts immigration hotline with NYIC ("Citizenship Now!") (+Gillibrand) - 4/29/2009

... the Legal Aid Society and the New York Immigration Coalition. The first hasn't been covered here, but the second has and their advice was probably politicized to say the least; click their link for past coverage. The NYDN's coverage admits that many who called were illegal aliens and were interested in amnesty. UPDATE: Albor Ruiz informs us (link) that Kirsten Gillibrand dropped by thei...

New York Immigration Coalition wants stimulus funds for immigrants, illegal aliens - 3/12/2009

On Tuesday, the far-left New York Immigration Coalition, allied groups, and about a thousand supporters rallied in Albany, demanding that stimulus funds be given to immigrants. Over four years ago I noted that the NYIC doesn't differentiate between legal immigrants and illegal aliens, and that's also true in this case: although they'll take pains not to admit it, they clearly want s...

Video: Kirsten Gillibrand caves in to illegal immigration lobby, supports amnesty - 2/03/2009

... met with Chung Wha Hong of the New York Immigration Coalition on Monday and expressed regret and admitted that some of her votes were wrong and then agreed to the following demands: A moratorium on government raids until Congress approves comprehensive immigration reform. Clearing the backlog of entry applications that have forced immigrant families to wait years to be reunited with relatives, ...

The right people oppose Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand over immigration - 1/24/2009

... link). * Chung Wa Hong, of the New York Immigration Coalition finds Gilibrand's positions "deeply troubling" and NYS Assemblyman Peter Rivera says they "border on xenophobia" ("Gillibrand’s immigration backlash" by Rick Karlin of the Times Union, link). * Sam Udani (publisher of the Immigration Daily newspaper) and Deborah Notkin (former president of the Ameri...

Rights Working Group wants immigration enforcement moratorium and much more (ACLU, NCLR, 248 others) - 1/09/2009

The Asian American Justice Center runs the Rights Working Group, a coalition of over 250 leftwing groups, and they have a petition calling on Barack Obama to in effect not do immigration enforcement. They want a "moratorium" while the subject of raids and the like is "studied", but everyone knows what that means. Since there are so many groups, the full roster is here. The main...

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"Reform Immigration For America": business, labor, CAP, NCLR, CHIRLA begin new push; summit, townhall meeting; John Quigley - 6/01/2009

NY Daily News conducts immigration hotline with NYIC ("Citizenship Now!") (+Gillibrand) - 4/29/2009