Dozens of people rallied outside city hall Wednesday morning to support a series of bills that aim to protect undocumented immigrants from being deported.
“I’m so proud to be working with councilmember Powers and the chair of this hearing councilmember Rivera,” Hanif said at the rally. “I know this is many months in the making, and I’m so, so thrilled to go face to face with the Department of Corrections, Department of Probation, the NYPD, and our Mayor’s office of Immigrant Affairs and asking the tough questions,” Hanif said.
“The deportation machine continues to exist,” she added, “wherein our city agencies, local authorities are continuing to work with ICE and fast tracking the federal mass deportation machine, and that is not right.”One of the bills would restrict the DOC from communicating with ICE in most circumstances.
Another bill would also limit the ability of the NYPD to hold an undocumented immigrant in custody beyond the normal period– unless in clearly defined circumstances. These include federal immigration authorities presenting the department with a judicial warrant.“We need to repeal immigration law because of the harm it causes,” said Ravi Ragbir executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City said. “We are here to fight ICE. We are here to stop ICE.
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