NEW YORK, Jan 9, CMC – Two Caribbean immigrant advocacy groups have urged the Senate to flatly reject a bill passed expected to be passed on Friday in the US House of Representatives that would allow the deportation of undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants who are charged with nonviolent crimes, including burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting,
Make the Road New York (MRNY) and the San Diego, California-based Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) on Wednesday joined the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella policy and advocacy organization that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York, in strongly condemning the Laken Riley Act (H.R. 29), describing it as “an overreach.”
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