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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 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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Membership Highlight: Northern Manhattan Coalition For Immigrant Rights
Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights
I feel really privileged to be able to come into a space and work with a team thats dedicated to promoting, protecting, and elevating the work of our immigrant families were taking journeys with people. – Cynthia Carrion, Deputy Director,
Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights
A client receiving immigration services at the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights offices
In 1982, a group of community activists and professionals in northern Manhattan identified a challenge: the stark lack of culturally competent, Spanish-language immigration services. Dominican immigrants had been pouring into the area since the 1960s and 70s, creating a desperate need for Spanish-speaking lawyers and immigration specialists. The Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights was formed out of this moment to provide the necessary services. The coalition began with volunteer attorneys, and after a few years began to receive funding from the city. From there, the group expanded, focusing on citizenship and anti-deportation work, and civics and English classes.
Left to right: Cynthia Carrion, Deputy Director Angela Fernandez, Executive Director and Anthony Alba, Staff Attorney, with the Coalitions original sign.
One of the coalitions greatest successes was helping to create the court-appointed counsel program that matches all NYC immigrants in detention with attorneys.
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Nmcir Campaign To Expand Judicial Discretion In Immigration Court
The Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 bars immigration judges from taking into account case specific and extenuating circumstances when handing down rulings in cases involving legal permanent residents being charged of deportable crimes.
Through educational clinics, media outreach, and negotiations with government officials, NMCIR has been active in the fight to expand judicial discretion for immigration judges.
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Changing Policy Changing Lives
To advocate for long-term change, NMCIR, in conjunction with immigrant justice groups citywide, including Families for Freedom and the New York Immigration Coalition, mobilizes its members to testify before City Hall, in Albany, and Washington D.C., before public officials and the community at large. This serves to put a human face on the immigration struggle, and fosters leadership and outreach capacities among our base population.
At a Bronx Town Hall meeting, for example, the testimony of a US-born child Julio Beltre regarding the deportation of his father, garnered support from Congressman Jose Serrano, who endorsed the Child Citizenship Protection Act, which provides protection for the American-born children of immigrant parents.
New York Immigrant Family Unity Project Whole Families For A Stronger New York
The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project seeks to create the nations first institutionally-provided universal-representation program for detained immigrants facing deportation.
NYIFUP would be the nations first government-funded deportation defense system, providing a basic measure of justice for New Yorkers and helping to ensure the unity of New York families. In time, NYIFUP would become a model for other jurisdictions that value their immigrants and counterbalance overtly hostile immigration policies enacted in states like Arizona and Alabama.New York State has an opportunity to lead by making resources available to address a critically important unmet need and to keep New York families together. NYIFUP would provide a system of representation for detained New Yorkers facing removal that functions through a universal-representation, institutional-provider model with screening only for income eligibility. By contracting with a small group of institutional immigration legal service providers and by working in cooperation with key institutional actors such as the Department of Homeland Security and the Executive Office for Immigration Review , NYIFUP would capture efficiencies of scale and minimize administrative complexities.
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Careers At The Coalition For Immigrant Freedom
We are looking for the following team members to join the Coalition.
To Apply:All submissions must be emailed and indicate the position they are applying for in the subject line. Please email your resume and cover letter to
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The Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights is a non-profit organization founded in 1982 to educate, defend, and protect the rights of immigrants. Recognized by the Department of Justice , NMCIR is committed to expanding access to legal immigration services, participating in policy making and community organizing. Most of the individuals who walk through the doors of the Coalition are low-income, non-citizen immigrants from the Caribbean, Latin America, and increasingly Africa and the Middle East. Some have lived in the U.S. for decades, others are recent immigrants. The Coalition is often their first entrée into accessing legal aid or basic social services.
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Support The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project
The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project seeks to create the nations first institutionally provided universal representation program for detained immigrants facing deportation.
Unlike in criminal proceedings, immigrants in deportation proceedings can be held in jail and forced to proceed against trained government lawyers alone, without any legal assistance whatsoever indeed 60% of detained immigrants in NY have no lawyers. The data we have uncovered demonstrates that it is virtually impossible to win your deportation proceeding if you are detained and unrepresented . But lawyers make a huge difference lawyers can increase success rates by approximately 500% . In the last five years, over 7,000 New York City children lost a parent to deportation. With a program for appointed counsel, far fewer families would be torn apart.
The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project would be the nations first government-funded deportation defense system. It would provide a basic measure of justice for New York immigrants, helping to ensure the unity of New York families. In time, it would become a model for other jurisdictions that value their immigrants and provide a desperately needed counterbalance to the overtly hostile immigration policies coming out of places like Arizona and Alabama.
Functions through a universal-representation, institutional-provider model with screening only for income eligibility.
Northern Manhattan Coalition For Immigrants Rights
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Immigrant Rights Clinic Students Draft Report On Dominicans And Deportation
On April 30, the Immigrant Rights Clinic and the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigration Rights released a special report, Deportado, Dominicano, y Humano: The Realities of Dominican Deportation and Related Policy Recommendations. Drafted by Ryan Shanovich ’09 and Connie Tse ’10 on behalf of the NMCIR, the report examines the history and causes of the seemingly disproportionate deportation of Dominicans and offers policy recommendations to the New York City, United States and Dominican Republic governments.
“Deportado, Dominicano, y Humano” argues that since the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act was enacted in 1996, more than 36,000 Dominicans have been deported, causing a severe crisis in Dominican communities in the United States. “In effect,” the reports says, “most deported Dominicans face a triple punishment that is grossly disproportionate to their crimes. After repaying their debt to society by serving their sentences, individuals are again subject to prison-like conditions under ICE detention, only to be punished a third time when they are removed to the Dominican Republic, where they must confront the stigma and persecution of being a deportee. Current practices can also split families apart, and the NMCIR urges the federal government to pass the Child Citizen Protection Act, which would allow judges to consider the children of immigrants in deportation cases, something that the IIRAIRA prevents.