The mission of the ICE Out! NYC Coalition is to stop the pipeline to deportation in New York City by passing and strengthening legislation and policies that restrict the City from colluding with ICE and from using our own city resources to funnel people to detention and deportation.
Current steering committee members include: Immigrant Defense Project, Bronx Defenders, Families for Freedom, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the New York Immigration Coalition, Make the Road NY, Asian American Federation, New Yorkers for the Public Interest
The NYC Trust Act (Int 214, Council Member Shahana Hanif)
New York City has long-standing values around how we as a city treat, support and respect immigrants within our community, who are an inseparable part of the fabric of our city. As a result, over the course of many years our city has codified these values in local legislation that protects our communities from having their information shared with federal immigration enforcement agencies. This is key for fostering trust between immigrant communities and our local agencies, and to protect from racial profiling and abuses of power. Despite critical laws we have passed over the past dozen years to preserve our city resources to serve New Yorkers, not put them in harms’ way, there is currently no way to hold city agencies accountable for infringing on the rights of New Yorkers.
However, the NYC Trust Act (Int 214, Council Memer Shahana Hanif) would protect our longstanding sanctuary laws in NYC from being undermined – whether by the federal administration or any mayoral administration – and ensure compliance that New Yorkers deserve, by creating a private right of action to hold the City accountable.
To learn more about the NYC Trust Act, see our explainer here.
To contact your Council Member and tell them they must get #ICEOutNYC and pass the NYC Trust Act, click here.
Thank you to our sponsors on the bill as well as our additional local elected supporters, listed below!
Council Members who have sponsored the NYC Trust Act!
Shahana K. Hanif
Shekar Krishnan
Keith Powers
Lincoln Restler
Alexa Avilés
Crystal Hudson
Gale A. Brewer
Chris Banks
Tiffany Cabán
Sandy Nurse
Julie Won
Shaun Abreu
Chi A. Ossé
Pierina Ana Sanchez
Nantasha M. Williams
Christopher Marte
Jennifer Gutiérrez
Carmen N. De La Rosa
Justin L. Brannan
Diana I. Ayala
Amanda Farías
Rita C. Joseph
Yusef Salaam
Oswald Feliz
Erik D. Bottcher
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
Farah N. Louis
Kevin C. Riley
Additional supporters:
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards
Comptroller Brad Lander – see here.