Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Local advocates say immigrants becoming afraid

Immigration reform is needed NOW. States must have federal help with this problem or every state will pass their own laws and there could be a bigger problem before long. - - Donna Poisl

By Keith Goldberg, Times Herald-Record

KINGSTON — Milan Bhatt heard a couple of tales of substandard housing conditions, of troubling interactions with police.

But Bhatt didn't hear much else at the Workers' Rights Law Center's community forum last Monday — attendance was sparse.

And Bhatt, executive director of the Kingston-based organization that advocates on behalf of low-wage and immigrant workers, believes the current atmosphere over immigration is keeping people away.
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