Immigrant Justice

Roman Catholic activists are calling on the Archdiocese of New York to take a stronger stance against deportation. While dozens of churches, mosques and synagogues across the city are opening their doors to immigrants, providing everything from know-your-rights training to physical sanctuary from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, they say Cardinal Timothy Dolan isn’t doing his…

Demonstrators gathered in Greenwich Village Thursday evening to stand in solidarity with immigrants. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/03/16/washington-square-park-immigrant-rally/

A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban hours before it was to take effect, marking the second time courts have thwarted Trump’s efforts to freeze immigration by refugees and citizens of some predominantly Muslim nations. https://longislandtechnologynews.com/2017/03/rally-in-washington-square-park-planned-trump-suffers-second-travel-ban-defeat/

LOWER MANHATTAN — A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban hours before it was to take effect, marking the second time courts have thwarted Trump’s efforts to freeze immigration by refugees and citizens of some predominantly Muslim nations. http://abc7ny.com/politics/rally-in-nyc-planned-after-trump-suffers-second-travel-ban-defeat/1803269/

EVA YORK.- Decenas de manifestantes bloquearon la noche de este jueves el tráfico en un declarado acto de desobediencia civil al arrodillarse frente al centro de detención de Inmigración y Aduanas localizado en la calle Varick, en el Bajo Manhattan. http://eldiariony.com/2017/03/16/lideres-religiosos-en-desobediencia-civil-por-defender-a-inmigrantes/

Como directora de Fe en Nueva York, que representa a miles de neoyorquinos de fe, sabemos que nuestros textos sagrados nos mandan a tratar a los inmigrantes con dignidad. http://eldiariony.com/2017/03/15/hay-que-mejorar-el-proyecto-de-unidad-familiar-para-inmigrantes-de-nueva-york/

The two swastikas, barely visible to a passerby but resonating broadly throughout the city, were carved crudely into the front door of the Fourth Universalist Society on Central Park West on Feb. 28. But they hit at the heart of a Reconstructionist synagogue a few blocks away. View full article here: http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/interfaith-solidarity-in-wake-of-swastika-attack/

In the midst of a national and citywide spike in anti-Semitic acts, an Upper West Side church, which recently announced its status as a sanctuary for the undocumented, discovered a series of swastikas carved into its front door. The Fourth Universalist Society, a Unitarian Universalist church, learned of the vandalism on the morning of Feb.…