The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), has joined national partners in calling for United States Senate Majority Leader Charles “Chuck” Schumer to include a roadmap to citizenship for millions of immigrants, including Caribbean nationals.

The US House of Representatives last Friday passed the US$1.75 trillion Build Back Better reconciliation package.

NYIC, which is a coalition of over 200 immigrant groups in New York, said the House’s spending plan includes immigration provisions that would grant temporary and time-limited immigration and work benefits to immigrants who entered the country before 2011 but would not provide any roadmap to citizenship.

“This is yet another blow to immigrant communities, who need and deserve more than the temporary solutions and half-measures offered by House Democrats,” NYIC’S executive director, Murad Awawdeh told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).

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