Check out this newsletter for information on 3 new campaigns IDP launched this month! Also featured: the 2021 Edition of the New York Chart!

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* New York for All: Stopping Collusion Between ICE and Local Police
* New Way Forward: Rooting Racism out of Immigration Laws
* Ban the Scan: Outlaw Facial Recognition in New York
* 2021 Edition of IDP's New York Quick Reference Chart, now available for purchase!



** New York for All: Stopping Collusion Between ICE and Local Police
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For years, IDP has documented ([link removed]) the many ways that ICE leans on local law enforcement and state agencies to search for, arrest, and deport immigrant New Yorkers. This week, we launched ([link removed]) a campaign with the New York Civil Liberties Union and the New York Immigration Coalition to pass the New York for All Act—a bill that would finally prohibit local police and state agencies from working with ICE. When local agencies conspire with ICE, it magnifies the injustices of the racially biased criminal-legal system and discriminatory policing. This entanglement also jeopardizes the safety of our communities—forcing immigrant New Yorkers to live with the daily anxiety that a routine traffic stop or a trip to the hospital could lead to being torn away from family.

TAKE ACTION TODAY: Learn more about The New York for All Act (S3076/A2328) here ([link removed]) .


** New Way Forward: Rooting Racism out of Immigration Laws
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With immigration reform finally on the horizon, IDP is fighting for transformative change that is rooted in compassion and respect for everyone’s rights. Just a week after the inauguration, IDP played a key role in the reintroduction of the New Way Forward Act in Congress. This crucial piece of legislation would help dismantle the prison-to-deportation pipeline, repealing notorious anti-immigrant laws that have fueled the criminalization, detention, and deportation of immigrants for decades. On a livestream ([link removed]) to reintroduce New Way Forward, we were joined by a trio of progressive legislators—Reps Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)—as well as advocates, community members, and directly impacted people across the country. Already, this legislation is backed by 39 members of congress.

Critically, New Way Forward Act would roll back core provisions of the 1996 laws, which have fueled the mass detention and deportation of Black and brown immigrants, as well as a law passed by a white supremacist Senator in 1929, which criminalizes people who cross the border. Key provisions include restricting the type of criminal system contacts that trigger deportation, ending mandatory detention and for-profit detention, ending local entanglement with ICE, providing people who have been deported the opportunity to apply to come home, and restoring some due process protections in immigration courts.

New Way Forward is already having a positive impact on immigration discussions in Washington DC and has been covered by several news outlets, including NBC News ([link removed]) , the Huffington Post ([link removed]) , Injustice Watch ([link removed]) , and others.

TAKE ACTION TODAY: Support The #NewWayForward Act, by joining the conversation ([link removed]) on social media.


** Ban the Scan: Outlaw Facial Recognition in New York
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On January 26, IDP joined Amnesty International and other partners across the globe to launch the "Ban the Scan ([link removed]) " campaign, calling on New York City and the State to outlaw government use of facial recognition technology. Increasingly used by ICE and local police like the NYPD, facial recognition technology relies on databases that amass millions of images from social media. Because BIPOC communities are at particular risk of being misidentified, the technology threatens to amplify already racist policing practices. It’s also been used to conduct mass surveillance on protesters, including during last summer’s uprisings ([link removed]) .

Together with other advocates, IDP is pushing the New York Senate to pass Senate Bill S79 ([link removed]) , which would ban the use of facial recognition software. IDP's Senior Policy Associate, Jose Chapa, spoke at the Ban the Scan press conference ([link removed]) highlighting that ICE is increasingly investing in surveillance technology like facial recognition software to target and deport immigrants. The ban the scan campaign is part of IDP's new Project on Surveillance, Tech and Immigration Policing ([link removed]) , which monitors how the government and big tech collude to identify, track and surveil immigrants.

For videos and graphic resources (like the image above), as well as a toolkit ([link removed]) on how to protect your phone at protests, visit the Ban the Scan campaign website ([link removed]) .

TAKE ACTION TODAY: Call on New York City and State to ban the use of facial recognition by signing our petition here ([link removed]) .


** 2021 Edition of IDP's New York Quick Reference Chart, now available for purchase!
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The 2021 edition of IDP's widely-used New York Quick Reference Chart is now available for purchase! This resource is a critical tool for attorneys to assess the impact New York state convictions can have on immigrants. This edition reflects changes in law impacting a wide range of New York offenses including assault, controlled substances, firearms offenses, and larceny. IDP has also expanded coverage to analysis of fraud offenses not previously included.

TAKE ACTION TODAY: Purchase the 2021 Edition of the New York Quick Reference Chart through IDP’s website ([link removed]) .
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