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Senator Schumer! Where’s Our Immigration Reform?
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- New York Governor Suspends Harmful Deportation Program
- Send Governor Cuomo a Message: Respect Immigrants' Rights
- DREAM Deferred, But Only Temporarily
- Dare to DREAM
- DREAMing Big
- Obama Finally Speaks on Immigration Reform; Why are We Underwhelmed?
- Crazy Arizona Immigration Laws Part Deux: The War on Babies
- Debunking the Immigration vs. Environment Myth
- Major Cities’ Police Chiefs Come Out Against Arizona Law… Where’s Ray Kelly?
- Obama’s Border Plans: That’s Not Change. That’s More of the Same.
- Today’s Second-Grade Lesson: We Need Immigration Reform
- NYCLU in the Journal News on ID Cards
- Standing While Latino Should Not be a Crime
- New NYCLU Video: LGBT Immigration Discrimination
- New Video: Show Me Your Papers!
- Upstate Town Goes English-Only; We Say “No/Nyet/Non”
- British Scrap National ID Cards – Are You Listening, Schumer?
- Paterson vs. Schumer on Due Process for Immigrants
- May Day 2010: All Over It
- Senate Democrats Release Blueprint of CIR Bill…And It Needs Work (A Lot)
- NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Immigration Reform FAIL is “National Suicide”
- Wild West: Arizona Takes the Anti-Immigrant Plunge—Immigration Reform Game Changer?
- Immigration Reform Bipartisanship Unraveling? Or Not?
- NYCLU, ACTS and RIFA in the Syracuse Post-Standard
- President Obama Says Immigration Reform is Next!
- NYCLU in the Poughkeepsie Journal: Justice and Common Sense: No Human Being is Illegal
- As Arizona Goes, So Goes the Nation? Let’s Hope Not.
- NYCLU in the Buffalo News: Schumer’s ID Plan Violates Basic American Principles
- GAME ON – At Vegas Rally Reid Promises Immigration Reform Bill This Summer
- Albany and Rochester Come out for Immigration Reform
- ICE Scandal of the Week: 400,000 Deportations Goal in FY10
- SHOCKER: 287(g) Program Lacks Oversight, Violates Rights
- NYCLU in the WSJ: Schumer’s ID Plan is ‘BEAST’LY
- We Came, We Saw, We Chanted…
- A Call for Justice: Rally in Washington for Reform
- Mr. President, Support Workable Reform, Reject National Worker ID
- The Gospel of Lindsey Graham; White House Punts on National ID
- And it Begins: WSJ on Schumer’s National ID Card
- Senator Schumer! Where’s Our Immigration Reform?
- Shakira at the White House: We Hope Obama’s “[L]ips Don’t Lie”
- Wings, Apples and Immigration Reform in Buffalo
- Former DA Morgenthau: Immigration System is a 'national disgrace'
- Immigration Reform: Coming to a Town Near You!
- Syracuse Comes Out in the Cold for Immigration Reform
- Immigration Reform. Who Cares?
- Representative Bishop – Can you hear us now?
- President Obama: We need more than that.
Long Island is one of our country’s prime examples of why we need comprehensive immigration reform NOW! With ICE raids, discriminatory county and local laws, hate crimes against immigrants, and public officials who openly speak out about their disdain for immigrants, we’ve suffered enough pain and division in our communities because Congress continues to fail to act on this most important civil rights issue.
Today, about 50 Long Islanders rallied in front of Senator Charles Schumer’s Long Island office in Melville to demand that the senator unveil his long anticipated bill on immigration reform [See photos]. The rally was organized by the NYCLU and its partners in the Long Island Immigrant Alliance, and was the first of a series planned around Long Island into the spring (watch our calendar for upcoming rally dates).
The message was one of support, showing Senator Schumer that residents of Long Island are behind him and that we are hopeful he’ll find republicans to co-sponsor the bill.
Senator Schumer’s Long Island regional director, Gerry Petrella, did come out to address the crowd of rallyers and assured us that immigration reform is “very important” to the senator and that the senator is still trying to build bipartisan support. Rallyers then hand-delivered to Mr. Petrella more than 500 postcards from constituents who support immigration reform.
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