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PRESS ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, October 26, 2007
Contact: Shuya Ohno, Communications, MIRA Coalition: (617) 821-8990
Ali Noorani, Executive Director. MIRA Coalition: (617) 835-1402
IMMIGRATION RAID OF NEW BEDFORD FACTORY
AFFECTS MASSACHUSETTS’ CHILDREN
Local Briefing on New Report Released by Urban Institute and NCLR Addresses
Impact of Immigration Raids on Children in America
WHEN: Wednesday, October 31, 1:00 pm
WHERE: National Association of Social Workers, MA Chapter, 14 Beacon St. Boston
WHO: New Bedford immigrant community members and leaders, clergy, child psychology experts
WHAT: Press conference and briefing on new national report on the effects of immigration raids on children
Boston, MA - The Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) and the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers will hold a press conference on Wednesday, October 31, to provide a local perspective on a new report to be released that day by the Urban Institute and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) which examines how recent immigration enforcement actions have affected the well-being of children of immigrants in the U.S. The briefing will be held at 1:00 a.m. at the office of the National Association of Social Workers, MA Chapter at 14 Beacon Street, and will feature speakers who will address their experiences after an immigration raid in New Bedford last March.
The report, Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children, profiles three communities that have recently experienced large-scale worksite raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency within the past year, including New Bedford; the other sites are Greeley, Colorado, and Grand Island, Nebraska. On March 6, 2007, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials staged a worksite raid at a Michael Bianco, Inc. factory in New Bedford.
Commissioned by NCLR, the Urban Institute report is the first comprehensive assessment of the social, economic, and psychological effects that immigration raids have had on children, families, and the institutions that support them, including community-based and religious organizations, child care providers, and school systems.
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