Issue Position: Immigrant Rights

Issue Position

During his tenure in the New York State Assembly, Nick Perry, an immigrant himself, has assisted thousands of immigrants in obtaining permanent status. Thanks to the hard work of Assemblyman Perry, many families can now buy homes and work legally and share in the American dream. Assemblyman Perry has legislation pending in Albany which would allow legal non-citizen immigrants to work as Firefighters and Police Officers in New York City.Assemblyman Perry believes it to be absurd that non-citizens are allowed to go fight and die under the US Flag in a senseless war in Iraq, but cannot fight fires in the FDNY or crime with the NYPD.

Assemblyman Perry has also introduced legislation which would extend the right to vote in local elections to alien residents who have earned permanent legal status in this country and have been residents of New York for at least three years and who have filed an application for citizenship. Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Assemblyman Nick Perry became the first Brooklyn politician to call for total amnesty for undocumented Haitiansliving in the U.S., believing that the much touted 18-month TPS program wasn't enough to properly assist the ravaged nation.

Assemblyman Perry has introduced legislation which would establish a Haitian Earthquake Victims Survivor College Scholarship for persons and children or spouses of persons who survived the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

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