Long Island Wins

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Highlights
  • Standing While Latino is not a Crime The Long Island Immigrant Alliance recently spearheaded a campaign to defeat an anti-immigrant ordinance under consideration by the Suffolk County legislature. The bill criminalizes "standing while Latino" by unfairly targeting day laborers seeking work.
  • The defeat of Suffolk County's "standing while Latino" legislation was huge victory for Immigrant rights activists in Long Island. The legislation was a forerunner for the current enforcement only approach to immigration sweeping the country.
  • The Long Island Immigrant Alliance proved that through coalition building with Unions, community organizations, and progressive activists we can roll back the enforcement agenda that will prove ineffective and harmful to our local economy.
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  1. In the News Immigration 101 Becoming a Citizen-Part 5 What does an American believe?

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director August 13, 2008 10:10 AM

    "We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident" Read more »

  2. In the News CARECEN25-Detained, Denied, Deported

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director August 6, 2008 9:55 AM

    Politics trumped human rights Read more »

  3. In the News Immigration 101 Becoming a Citizen-Part 3: English

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director August 4, 2008 1:06 PM

    Who becomes president if the president and the vice-president both die? Read more »

  4. In the News Immigration 101 Becoming a Citizen Part 2-Good Moral Character

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director July 29, 2008 3:20 PM

    How moral are U.S. citizens, anyway? Read more »

  5. In the News Immigration 101 Becoming a Citizen

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director July 24, 2008 9:59 AM

    "Why don't they all become citizens if they want to live here?" Read more »

  6. In the News Immigration Reform: The Sharry Prescription

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director July 21, 2008 11:00 AM

    Don't mourn. Mobilize? Read more »

  7. Federal Immigration Policy Free Video Seminars on immigration policy!

    By Pat Young July 15, 2008 4:04 PM

    Attend a national conference from the comfort of home! Read more »

  8. In the News ICE detention abuse

    By Pat Young CARECEN July 15, 2008 3:42 PM

    Standards suffer as detentions increase Read more »

  9. Federal Immigration Policy Immigration 101 Index

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director and Special Professor of Immigration Law at Hofstra July 15, 2008 3:28 PM

    I've updated the index for accessing this series Read more »

  10. In the News Immigration Reform: Elements of defeat

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director July 15, 2008 12:31 PM

    The Sharry Thesis Read more »

  11. In the News e-verify and discrimination

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director May 21, 2008 9:53 AM

    The last of a three-part series Read more »

  12. In the News e-verify: Overwhelming, Inaccurate, Discriminatory

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director May 20, 2008 4:14 PM

    Mistakes abound Read more »

  13. In the News Immigration 101 September 11 and Immigration

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director May 19, 2008 9:27 AM

    9-11 has been used to justify anti-immigrant policies Read more »

  14. In the News Immigration 101-Raid!

    By Patrick Young, Esq CARECEN Program Director May 7, 2008 10:50 AM

    Raids grab headlines and terrify communities Read more »

  15. In the News Immigration 101 Deportations

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director May 4, 2008 7:05 PM

    Are we really not enforcing our immigration laws? Read more »

  16. In the News Immigration 101 Why can't we just round 'em up and ship 'em home?

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director May 1, 2008 6:51 PM

    Being brown isn't illegal. Read more »

  17. In the News Immigration 101 The impact of Employer Sanctions on Immigrants

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director April 24, 2008 3:00 PM

    Employer Sanctions have depressed immigrants' wages, increased exploitation and discrimination, all without halting illegal immigration. Read more »

  18. Federal Immigration Policy Immigration 101 How employers evade Employer Sanctions

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director April 24, 2008 9:11 AM

    Employers aren't dumb. They need the labor. They find a way to get it. Read more »

  19. Federal Immigration Policy Immigration 101 "Let's go after the employers"

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director April 23, 2008 9:45 AM

    With Suffolk considering a local employer sanctions law, here is a look at problems with the Federal law. Read more »

  20. In the News SAVE Act could cost your job

    By Pat Young April 17, 2008 3:15 PM

    Bill makes your job dependent on a faulty data base. Read more »

  21. In the News Immigration 101 The Chinese Exclusion Act Cases

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director April 17, 2008 9:23 AM

    This is the most important case in immigration history. In service of the cause of White Supremacy, it gave broad powers to Congress to exclude and deport immigrants because of their race, political opinion, and religion. Read more »

  22. In the News Immigration 101 Keeping the Chinese Out

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director April 14, 2008 10:33 AM

    The Immigration 101 series tracks my course in immigration law at Hofstra University School of Law. Reading some of my previous posts, it may strike you that immigration law sometimes seems to conflict with rights protected under various parts of... Read more »

  23. In the News Police into Immigration Cops?

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director April 9, 2008 9:27 AM

    The New York Times has a great editorial today on the outsourcing by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of immigration enforcement. Local police around the country are being deputized to enforce immigration laws and the record of their behavior... Read more »

  24. In the News Immigration 101 Free Speech Part II

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director April 8, 2008 11:49 AM

    This is the second part of a two part article on Immigration and Free Speech. During the half-century after the Harrisiades case established Congress' power to deport immigrants for exercising their right to free speech, a number of embarrassing cases... Read more »

  25. In the News Immigration 101 Immigrants and Free Speech

    By Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN Program Director April 8, 2008 9:37 AM

    This series tracks my Immigration Law course at Hofstra Law School. Many of my students have had the experience of meeting foreign students when they were in college. The exchange students are often reticent to talk about politics or to... Read more »

  26. Federal Immigration Policy Big Numbers Caught, Big Numbers Here

    By Pat Young
    Program Director, CARECEN
     November 5, 2007 12:25 PM

    A change in immigration policy has resulted in a massive increase in immigration detentions. The increase in detainees came after Homeland Security changed its so-called "catch and release" policy, which set most detainees free to await their trials. Two weeks... Read more »