Did you know that NYC collaborates with ICE (Immigration) to facilitate the deportation of immigrants?
NYC shares information with ICE (Immigration) about every person that it incarcerates, including their name and place of birth. NYC detains the people who Immigration wants to deport for extra time and then turns them over to Immigration when they get out of jail. Each year NYC turns thousands of people over to Immigration to begin deportation proceedings.
If you or someone you know is incarcerated for any reason, you could end up being deported:
•Regardless of what crime you are accused of
•Whether you are innocent or guilty
•Regardless of how much time you spend in jail
Because of this collaboration - more than 3,000 people
are placed in deportation proceedings each year!
The majority of these people are declared innocent or guilty of misdemeanors
The collaboration between Immigration and NYC tears families apart, uses scarce City resources, and puts public security at risk because immigrants do not trust the authorities.
NYC should not be helping ICE (Immigration) deport people!
On October 19, Make the Road NY will present a proposal for a local law to end the collaboration between ICE (Immigration) and NYC. If this law is passed, NYC will become a national leader in the fight for immigrants’ rights. It would be the first time a local municipality has kicked out Immigration! This law would act as a counter-weight to SB1070 in Arizona and would give the national movement for just immigration reform new energy.
Make the Road NY is organizing a mass march to support this law and demand that New York be a city that truly values immigrants.
We will march over the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall.
When? October 19, 2010
What time? Meeting at 9:00 a.m.
Where? in each of the Make the Road NY offices
BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN: 301 GROVE ST, t: (718) 418-7690
JACKSON HEIGHTS, QUEENS: 92-10 ROOSEVELT AVE, t: (718) 565-8500
PORT RICHMOND, STATEN ISLAND: 479 PORT RICHMOND AVE, t: (718) 727-1222
