Take Action: Access to Representation
Strengthening and expanding immigration legal services is critical to protect families, support unaccompanied children who are being fast-tracked through court, and safeguard the state’s economic future. Our elected leaders can fix this. NYS must invest $175M in immigration legal services and pass the Access to Representation Act (A270/S141) and Building Up Immigrant Legal Defense Act (A2689/S4538) to stand up for immigrant families in the face of Trump’s mass deportation crackdown
New York’s immigrant communities are under unprecedented attacks from the Trump administration, funded by billions of federal dollars. Immigration legal representation can mean the difference between staying at home or permanent family separation, and even the difference between life or death. As ICE arrests have tripled across the nation, New York ICE detained nearly 5,000 New Yorkers, arresting more people in the past few months than in all of last year. The time to act is now!
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