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What: Emergency Press Conference and rally for immigrant communities to speak out against the Senate-White House Immigration Deal and demand that our Senators not compromise immigrant lives.
When: 11am on Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Where: Outside Senator Clinton's office (780 Third Ave, between 48th and 49th Streets)
Who: Organized by Immigrant Communities in Action and the American Friends Service Committee.

Immigration "Grand Bargain" = Grand Sellout

With this week's upcoming vote on the Senate's Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (resulting from the bipartisan "Grand Bargain" between Senators and the White House), immigrant communities face one of the most repressive immigration plans in decades: an enormous report-to-deport program, a punitive pseudo-legalization plan, expanded enforcement at the border and interior, a guestworker program with tougher worksite enforcement and minimal worker protections, as well as devastating cutbacks in family immigration to be replaced with merit-based requirements. Community groups in the New York metro area are coming together to challenge the Senate "Grand Bargain" on Tuesday May 22nd as part of a national coordination of press conferences (officially on Wednesday May 23rd throughout the country) with the National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights.

JOIN US in front of Senator Clinton's office to URGENTLY condemn this "bargain" which compromises away our lives.

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