Last week, Trump issued an Executive Order to ban new immigrant visas in the United States for 60 days. The following is a statement from Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF:
For Immediate Release
July 22, 2020
For more information contact:
Rachel Cohen, [email protected], Immigrant Defense Project
Elianne Ramos, [email protected], LatinoJustice
Immigrant Defense Project Celebrates the Passage of the Protect Our Courts Act
New York State Legislature Passes Momentous Legislation: ICE Cannot Use Courts to Trap Immigrant New Yorkers
CONTACT: Christiaan Perez, cperez[@]latinojustice.org, 212-739-7581
LatinoJustice is Monitoring Upstate County Clerk’s Processing of Immigrant New Yorkers Applications for Drivers Licenses to Ensure Compliance with the Law
New York, NY – Friday, Judge Elizabeth Wolford of the Federal District Court for the Western District of New York issued a 32-page Decision and Order dismissing Erie County’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionally of New York’s newly enacted Green Light Law which would permit non-citizen residents to obtain a drivers’ license in the case of Kearns v. Cuomo et al. Judge Wolford dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds noting that Kearns as a county clerk failed to establish requisite legal standing to challenge the GreenLight Law.
El Paso: A Reason for the Latinx Community to Push for Impeachment was originally pubished in Latino Rebels. you can read the full op-ed here or below.