Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NMCIR) works with over 6,000 families a year on issues such as immigration, citizenship, deportation and voter participation focusing on keeping families together, facilitating integration and building community power.
The Coalition Educates, Organizes and Defends the Immigrant Community.
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A New Two Year Grant for NMCIR
NMCIR is pleased to announce that we are recipients of the FY 2011 Citizenship and Integration Direct Services Grant Program, awarded by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) . This generous funding will enable NMCIR to expand our citizenship education and naturalization application assistance program.
For more information, please contact Rodolfo Estrada, Esq., Executive Director at restrada@nmcir.org.
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We just released the authoritative report of the massive deportation program, Secure Communities.
Click here to download the report.
NO MORE DEPORTATIONS
POLICE SHOULD NOT BE IMMIGRATION AGENTS
Join the coalition fighting to stop Secure Communities in New York.
For more information, please email: lsalmeron@nmcir.org
Find the New York State Working Group Against Deportation toolkit here:
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NMCIR Weekly Column in El Diario
Immigration in the news. Learn about relavent immigration issues in NMCIR's weekly question and answer column dedicated to all issues concerning immigration, written by NMCIR Board Member Maria Navarro Esq.
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Highlight on Immigration Service: TPS
In 1990, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 ("IMMACT"), P.L. 101-649, Congress established a procedure by which the Attorney General may provide Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to immigrants in the United States who are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing armed conflict an environmental disaster, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions. If you are a citizen of the following countries, you may be eligible to apply for TPS:
Burundi
El Salvador
Haiti (NEW)
Honduras
Nicaragua
Sierra Leone
Somaila
Sudan
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NMCIR Deportation Report
On Thursday, April 30th, 2009, NMCIR released a report entitled "Deportado, Dominicano, y Humano: The Realities of Dominican Deportations and Related Policy Recommendations" (downloadable PDF) in order to bring to light the experience of one of the largest immigrant groups in New York and the North East - Dominicans. This report compiles the socio-political realities of deportation and provides policy recommendations to the governments of the United States, New York, and the Dominican Republic on how to alleviate the destruction deportation has caused in our community. This report was produced in collaboration with the New York University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic and received media coverage from El Diario, NY1, and Telemundo.
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