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04-30-2010, 12:59 PM #1
New York City Council slams new Arizona immigration law
New York City Council slams new Arizona immigration law
BY Erin Einhorn
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU
Friday, April 30th 2010, 4:00 AM
Add the City Council to the list of New Yorkers harshly condemning the new Arizona immigration law.
Council members vowed to prevent anything similar from coming to New York - and passed a resolution urging President Obama and Congress pass comprehensive immigration reform.
"What [Arizona] did is a disgrace. It is un-American," said Council Speaker Christine Quinn. "It strikes against everything the founders of this country had in mind."
The Council's condemnation came as the cities of San Francisco and St. Paul, Minn., as well as the Denver school system, banned employee travel to Arizona using public funds.
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04-30-2010, 03:06 PM #2
Recklessness is not an admirable quality.
Decisions based upon false information and inuendo, hysterical national gang-banging, and the deliberate biased reporting of American mainstream media are concrete examples of TOTAL RECKLESSNESS.
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04-30-2010, 03:23 PM #3
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04-30-2010, 03:25 PM #4
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
City Hall
New York, NY 10007
April 29, 2010
Release # 049-2010
New York City Council, Citywide Leaders and Advocates Denounce Arizona Immigration Law
Council Passes Resolution Calling for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
City Hall – Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, together with the Chung Wha-Hong, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition, Immigration Chair, Council Member Daniel Dromm, Council Members Melissa Mark-Viverito, Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez and a number of immigration and civil rights advocates, today gathered to denounce Arizona’s Law SB1070 which will allow law enforcement officials to stop and question a person they suspect may be undocumented, makes undocumented status a state crime, and opens the door to racial and ethnic profiling. Council Members also announced the passing of Resolution 162-A, which calls for Congress and the President to come up with a comprehensive immigration reform bill and sign it into law. Also joining the Speaker were Comptroller John Liu, Tamika Mallory representing Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network, State Senator Jose Peralta, State Senator Jose M. Serrano, Assemblymember Adriano Espaillat, Ana Maria Archila, Co-Executive Director of Make the Road New York, Sussie Lozada from the NY Civic Participation Project, SJ Jung from the Minkwon Center for Community Action, Leticia Alanis from La Union de la Comunidad Latina, and Sonia Ivany from the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and Co-Chair of the May Day Rally at Foley Square.
"I am deeply troubled by the recent law signed by Arizona Governor Brewer and the message it sends to those who believe that immigrants have no place, protection or rights here in the U.S.,â€
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