With the kickoff of the New York legislative session weeks away, immigrant rights advocates are calling on state lawmakers to guarantee the right to a lawyer for low-income migrants facing deportation or detention.
“I don’t think people understood the need until they were faced literally at our New York doorstep with an immigrant crisis,” she said.
“The need for universal representation is higher than ever,” said state Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan, the other bill co-sponsor and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hundreds of immigrants line up before dawn outside the city’s main immigration courthouse – some warming themselves over steam grates or swaddling themselves in cardboard boxes for warmth – for mandatory check-ins with immigration officers, only to be turned away after the 500-person quota is met.
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