Senate Democrats Roll Out 'Resistance Agenda'

By Katherine Carroll

The Senate Democratic Conference has introduced their “resistance agenda,” to counter what they call “an assault on American values” by the Trump administration. The agenda includes two bills that harness protections for international SUNY and CUNY students, and prohibiting the Port Authority from manning the roll out of President Donald Trump’s immigration ban via executive order.

“We are standing with the majority of Americans. As President Woodrow Wilson once said ‘the history of liberty is a history of resistance,’” Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, said. “Now it is more imperative than ever that New York leads this resistance.”

Senate Democrats are proposing several initiatives to protect refugees, immigrants and foreign students from the provisions of Trump’s executive order on immigration signed recently. The order freezes refugee resettlement and entry into the U.S. from seven majority-muslim nations: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. 

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Source: The Legislative Gazette (via The Empire Report)