We applaud @SenatorMenendez & @RepLindaSanchez for introducing the #USCitizenshipAct today. This bill is a significant step toward a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants—including a fast track for #DACA recipients, #TPS holders & farmworkers.

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#USCitizenshipAct would:
✅Create a path to citizenship for 11 mil. immigrants
✅Begin to address root causes
✅Fortify worker protections
✅Remove barriers to family-based immig.
✅Put limits on exec. authority to issue bans
✅Restore asylum
✅Replace "alien” w/ “noncitizen”
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.@MarielenaNILC: "Millions of immigrants are doing essential work to help us through the pandemic & are in urgent need of stability & relief. We urge members of Congress to swiftly provide undocumented members of our communities a path to citizenship." #ImmigrantsAreEssential 3/5
.@MarielenaNILC: “While there is much to celebrate in this bill, we are disappointed the bill excludes immigrants from access to health care & other vital services. Our collective health and well-being depends on full immigrant inclusion.” 4/5
📄Read our full statement here: ow.ly/ZKtK50DDZja

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11 Feb
🚨HAPPENING NOW: @MarielenaNILC is testifying before @HouseJudiciary.

Join us as we live tweet — we'll be here to remind you that #ImmigrantsAreEssential & that we need bold immigration reforms, starting with a path to citizenship.

📺TUNE IN HERE: ow.ly/mNcw50Dw2ue
“It is estimated that 3 in 4 undocumented workers are engaged in work that is deemed essential.” -@RepJerryNadler

#ImmigrantsAreEssential
“I am here today because my parents moved from Colombia to work in Rhode Island’s textile factories to give their 10 children better opportunities.” -@MarielenaNILC
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11 Feb
NILC forcefully denounces the ongoing hate crimes & bigotry targeting Asian Americans, and the recent rise in attacks on AAPI elders.

We stand in solidarity with AAPI communities in their pursuit of equity & justice. 1/4

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Since the start of COVID, Asian Americans have increasingly become targets of racially-motivated attacks & racist rhetoric. All the while, they're disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, grappling with unemployment, high-risk health care work & economic instability. 2/4
In 2020 alone, @StopAAPIHate documented 2,808 racially-motivated hate incidents against Asian Americans across the country. 700 of those were in the San Francisco Bay Area. 3/4
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3 Feb
🚨BREAKING: @POTUS has begun the process of undoing the #PublicCharge immigrant ‘wealth test.’ This commitment to reverse one of the most harmful policies of the Trump administration is a colossal step toward ensuring we all have the freedom to thrive. 1/4
The public charge ‘wealth test’ stoked fear & confusion in our communities, causing many immigrants to choose between feeding their loved ones and accessing essential health care during a global pandemic. The rule is harmful & racist. 2/4
Over the last 4 years, NILC has worked alongside our partners to fight back against public charge. We co-led & founded the #ProtectFamilies campaign, driving in more than 250,000 public comments opposing the rule. 3/4
Read 4 tweets
3 Feb
🚨BREAKING: @POTUS took a number of positive immigration-related actions today, including:
✅Began the process of undoing the Public Charge “wealth test”
✅Created a Task Force to Reunify Separated Families
✅Addressed the “Remain in Mexico” Policy

1/4
.@POTUS also took action on the following today:
✅Ensured more protections and legal avenues as part of a more robust regional migration strategy
✅Reestablished the Taskforce on New Americans

2/4
We're grateful the Biden administration is prioritizing undoing the harm of the last four years & we'll continue to fight until everyone in this country has the freedom to thrive. 3/4
Read 4 tweets
2 Feb
🚨BREAKING: A federal court has largely allowed our case with @splcenter challenging a 2018 workplace raid to proceed. The raid took place at an East Tennessee meat processing plant where federal agents illegally targeted Latinx workers.👇1/6

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In April 2018, dozens of DHS & IRS agents descended on the Tennessee meat processing plant, detaining approx. 100 Latinx workers. This created chaos & deep pain in the lives of these families, forever changing the community. @tnimmigrant has worked to support & empower them. 2/6
The court denied the government's request to dismiss claims alleging the IRS and DHS conspired with the Tennessee highway patrol to violate the immigrant workers’ rights to be free from unconstitutional detention. 3/6
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14 Nov 20
🎉 VICTORY! A Brooklyn court ruled in our case with @MaketheRoadNY and @WIRACYls on DACA that Chad Wolf was not lawfully serving, and his memo was not lawfully issued. We are still reading the opinion and will provide more details soon.
@MaketheRoadNY @WiracYls We knew the memo issued by Chad Wolf was another cruel and divisive move that sought to upend the lives of over a million immigrant youth while Trump schemes to dismantle #DACA. This decision confirms that the Wolf Memorandum was not lawfully issued in the first place. 2/
@MaketheRoadNY @WiracYls The judge also granted a class certification in our case. What this means is that our suit with @MaketheRoadNY and @WIRACYls now represents #DACA recipients across the country who are eligible for DACA under the 2012 DACA memorandum — approximately one million immigrant youth. 3/
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