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Press Release from Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform – Feb 23, 2008

The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform scored a PR coup in the Democratic Debate on Thursday night when presidential contender Senator Hillary Clinton vowed to introduce immigration reform within the first 100 days of her presidency.

ILIR chairman Niall O'Dowd and Vice-Chairman Ciaran Staunton met with Senator Clinton on Wednesday and urged her to announce a 100-day strategy at the debate after earlier submitting the same message to the campaign.

Speaking in New York on Wednesday, Mr O'Dowd said he was delighted that Senator Clinton had ramped up her support for immigration reform.

On Thursday night, Senator Clinton earned a huge cheer from the audience in the University of Texas when she said: "We need a path to legalization, to bring the immigrants out of the shadows. ... If they had committed a crime in our country or the country they came from, then they should be deported. But for everyone else, there must be a path to legalization. I would introduce that in the first 100 days of my presidency."

ILIR Rally in Dublin - April 2007

Fr. Alan Hilliard, Director of the Irish Episcopal Commission for Emigrants, was one of the speakers at the ILIR Rally for Friends and Family at Jurys Hotel Ballsbridge on April 14th.  More than 1,500 friends and families of the Irish undocumented in the US packed one of Dublin's biggest function rooms to show their support for their family and friends in the United States.

The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform has been established to make sure there is an Irish voice in the nationwide immigration debate. This debate affects some 11 million people, an estimated 50,000 of whom are Irish undocumented.  This site has been established to further the aims of the ILIR and to help our supporters lobby the US Government. Please sign up to ILIR and help us help the undocumented.


ILIR City Organizers
New York (Bronx/Yonkers)
Mary
ilirnewyork@gmail.com
914-420-5894


New York (Queens)
Steve
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Siobhan
917-306-1413
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Boston (All Areas)
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Florida
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Philadelphia
Eamon
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Tom
610-613-2389


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Celine
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