Welcome to the official BLOG of Immigrant Communities in Action!

Who we are:

Immigrant Communities in Action formed in January 2005 as the Queens Drivers License Coalition to build the power of diverse immigrant communities in Queens & citywide to drive back the attack on immigrants in New York and around the country. The coalition is made up of over 20 organizations of immigrants affected by this issue and non-immigrants concerned with the rights of immigrants

Organizational Members:

Adhikaar * La Aurora * CAAAV-Organizing Asian Communities * CAUSA * Centro Hispano "Cuzcatlan" (Steering Committee Member) * DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association * Domestic Workers United * Domenico American Society * DRUM--Desis Rising Up and Moving (Steering Committee Member) * Forest Hills Community House*Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project *Justice 4 Immigrants Filipino Coalition (Philippine Forum, New York Committee for Human Rights in the Phillippines, Anakbayan NY/NJ, MIGRANTE-NY, SANDIWA National Filipino American Youth Organization, Movement for a Free Philippines, Critical Filipino/a Studies Collective) * Humanist Center of Cultures * National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities * Organizacion Negra Centro Americana * ROC-NY * Salvadorian American National Network * Ugnayan

Our Platform:

Immigrant Communities in Action supports and calls for Congress to pass genuine “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” that includes the following:

1. Legalization for individual workers and families who are actively contributing to our country and a path to legalization for future flows. No guest-worker program of work & leave that has no path to legal status;
2. Improved and faster family reunification opportunities for all;
3. Enforce the protection of human and civil rights by reducing detention & deportation, ending collaboration between the DHS and public agencies, and ending deaths & abuses of migrants at the borders;
4. Non-compliance with the REAL ID Act by New York State and the guarantee of equal access to driver’s licenses for immigrants;
5. Equal protection of labor rights of undocumented workers.