Tuesday, May 5, 2015

NYC's De Blasio is Screening ILLEGALS for Options as Obama's Immigration Plan is in Court ...

The week-long Daily News/CUNY Citizenship NOW! 
call-in provides free and confidential immigration 
and citizenship help by phone.
He's so anxious to help ILLEGALS and to spend your taxpayer dollars that he's readying ahead of time:
Even as President Obama’s latest immigration programs are held up in a court battle, New Yorkers are getting screened to see if they can apply for them — and large numbers are learning they might already qualify for visas and other benefits.
Volunteers answer immigration questions Thursday 
during the 13th annual Daily News/CUNY Citizenship 
NOW! call-in.
“That by itself is game-changing, regardless of the lawsuit,” city Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Nisha Agarwal said Thursday, as she visited the 13th annual Daily News/CUNY Citizenship NOW! call-in.
About 54% of the nearly 600 people who recently shared their immigration situations at a legal screening hosted by the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs event learned they will potentially qualify if a court fight ends in the Obama administration’s favor and benefits go forward for undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and a greater number of immigrants who came to this country as children.
Even more striking: 40% of those screened learned they might be eligible for other types of relief, according to city officials.
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“It’s a very large number if you think of all the undocumented people that are in New York City,” said Wernick, adding that an estimated 750,000 immigrants in New York City are here illegally. “If you say 20% of them qualify for some kind of immigration benefit, if they could get legal status, that’s an astounding number.”
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