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The organization has helped additional children through screening clinics and know your rights presentations. Safe Passage Project has mentored over 400 attorneys working with law student volunteers. Safe Passage received the 2008 New York State Bar Association outstanding pro bono project, and the 2013 American Immigration Lawyers Association ...
USCRI traces its history back to 1911 with the founding of the early International Institutes and Travelers’ Aid societies. The early 1900s was a time of incredible growth for the immigrant population of the United States, by 1910, three-quarters of New York City’s population was either an immigrant or a first generation American. This increase in the immigrant population, as well as increa
Immigrants get information about their constitutional rights after a presentation by a consortium of attorneys, organizations, and community experts at the Robert F. Kennedy High School Auditorium ...
The disconnect between messaging about federal immigration authorities’ priorities and the enforcement WAISN has seen in the state is part of why the organization has been organizing “know ...
Gender Justice Initiative: This upholds the rights of immigrant women, and helps those who are victims of domestic violence and crime. [7] Detention, Democracy and Due Process Project: This aims to uphold the due process rights of immigrants held in detention or subject to deportation. [8]
The term immigration was coined in the 17th century, referring to non-warlike population movements between the emerging nation states. When people cross national borders during their migration, they are called migrants or immigrants (from Latin: migrare, 'wanderer') from the perspective of the destination country.
The Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) [1] is a grassroots movement that supports comprehensive immigration reform and the civil rights of immigrants in the United States. It was started in 2004 by the Community Change, formerly The Center for Community Change. It includes a coalition of 30 immigration rights movement organizations across ...
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