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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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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

The Immigration 101 series was started to increase awareness of immigration issues. It tracks my course in immigration law at Hofstra University School of Law in Hempstead. It does not attempt to recreate lectures I give in the course, but instead it uses the structure of the course to organize the often disparate-seeming elements of immigration law. The series is informed by my students' comments and by the work of my deeply valued teaching partner Lauris Wren.

Read other parts of this series:

Immigration 101 is a comprehensive series on American immigration law for the layperson. This series tracks my course on immigration law at Hofstra Law School and answers many of your questions about immigration policy.

Here is the current list of articles in this series.

What is Immigration 101?

Immigration 101 Overview of the Immigration System

Immigration 101 Employment Based

Immigration 101 Family Based Immigration

Immigration 101 So what makes up a family

Immigration 101 History We need a new Ellis Island

Immigration 101 NonImmigrants

Immigration 101 Coming to the U.S.

Immigration 101 Stopping 'em at the border

Immigration 101 Don't Give Me Your Poor

Immigration 101 Free Speech Part 1