As NYC celebrates Irish immigrants, Irish-American and NYC racial justice groups protest NYPD’s role in deporting immigrants of color

PRESS RELEASE Despite “Sanctuary City”, groups charge that aggressive Broken Windows policing feeds immigrants to ICE – while NYPD avoids targeting white immigrants. New York – Irish American and NYC racial justice groups protested today at the NYPD Emerald Society’s post-parade party. Protesters demanded that the NYPD stop helping federal ICE agents deport New York’s immigrants by aggressively making arrests for tiny, non-criminal infractions. Groups included Irish Queers, Black...

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3/17: Irish cops should GET immigrant rights. Protest NYPD criminalization of immigrants.

Friday March 17, 1-2:30pm 50th St/West Side Highway, at Pier 90 Protest outside NYPD Emerald Society's St. Patrick’s Day party.  This St. Patrick's Day, tell the NYPD to celebrate ALL of New York's immigrants. Stop targeting communities of color. Stop helping ICE deport New Yorkers. Please RSVP if possible, thanks! https://www.facebook.com/events/681203075395042 ---- The NYPD officers’ union says they’re eager to...

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#NoShamrocks: Petition to Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Irish American Members of Congress  Irishmen, Irishwomen, and Fellow Americans: The enduring symbol of the United States of America is not the barbed wire fence, it is the Statue of Liberty. So please, "in the name of God and of the dead generations from which Ireland receives her old tradition of nationhood," boycott Trump's St. Patrick's Day gathering at the White House on Thursday,...

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Sorry not sorry! (Join us this St. Patrick's Day!)

This year on St. Patrick’s Day, we’ll be repping Irish America at a protest for immigrants’ rights, rather than at the NYC parade. Please join us! We’ll post details here, or you can email us for an update. Irish Queers marched last year in the 2016 NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade. We were thrilled that, after 25 years of protest, we broke the ban on LGBTQ Irish groups. Still, it was much the same parade as before. Simply adding queers to the...

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