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Mekong NYC – Pass NY’s #ClemencyJusticeAct Now!

Transparency and efficiency in our immigration and criminal legal systems is vital to us surviving. So many families who face deportation and incarceration – overwhelmingly immigrant families and families of color – slip into poverty conditions while enduring forced separation, detention, and incarceration.

The #ClemencyJusticeAct is the bare minimum our community deserves: a fair, transparent, accessible clemency application process. Instead, our immigrant women, queer folks, and elderly who are in detention centers and prisons endure violence and neglect.

From 2017-2020, New York received over 6,400 immigrant clemency applications and granted only 1.5% of those. Even when clemency applications are submitted, our families often wait years for an update.

We desperately need the #ClemencyJusticeAct, which creates more transparency and relief from forced separation.

Sign our petition today!