The Authorized Assist Society on Tuesday introduced new assets to assist undocumented New Yorkers and households of blended immigration standing amid sweeping and aggressive deportation efforts by the Trump administration.
A brand new part on Authorized Assist’s web site — the Know Your Rights Hub — supplies info for folks whose mother and father or different relations are undocumented and what to do if a liked one is taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Individuals vulnerable to being deported may also find out about how you can plan for the care and custody of their kids of their absence. The location contains varieties folks can fill out to grant somebody energy of lawyer, standby guardianship, and the flexibility to make faculty and well being selections for his or her baby.
“It is critical that all New Yorkers know their rights and are as prepared as possible,” Deborah Lee, who heads Authorized Assist’s Immigration Legislation Unit, mentioned.
Authorized Assist mentioned it could additionally launch month-to-month in-person info classes designed for community-based organizations that can be attended by invitation solely in the interim.
The nonprofit introduced the slate of recent assets following the primary set of raids to happen underneath Trump in New York Metropolis early Tuesday. Armed brokers in tactical gear focused at the least three addresses within the Bronx with sign-off from Mayor Adams and help from the NYPD, which has mentioned it should solely cooperate with the feds on immigration issues the place criminality is alleged.
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Federal brokers within the Bronx on Tuesday. (DEA New York / X)
In Trump’s first week as president, ICE brokers arrested greater than 3,550 undocumented immigrants — together with 1,179 folks on Monday — in cities like Chicago, Atlanta, Denver and Dallas, together with different Division of Justice companies and Homeland Safety Investigations from the Division of Homeland Safety.
Although the enforcement actions have been initially mentioned to be prioritizing undocumented immigrants accused of breaking the regulation, ICE has swept up folks they’ve come throughout within the course of as “collateral,” a way banned underneath President Joe Biden.
It’s unclear whether or not Tuesday’s raids portend extra ramped-up enforcement actions within the Empire State, house to an estimated 670,000 undocumented immigrants, in response to a report launched final week by the Fiscal Coverage Institute. The identical report discovered New York’s undocumented inhabitants contributed $3.1 billion in state and native taxes in 2022.
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