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Birthday Gift: A temporary relief for the Habibfamily

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, September 29, 2011Contact: Sonia at sonia@nysylc.org, or Daniela at 646-472-9565

New York, NY. After two weeks of thousands of online and phone petitions led by theNew York State Youth Leadership Council, Nadia Habib and her mother Nazmin Habibare not being deported today. During their appointment with deportation officers, NYICE Field Office Director Christopher Shanahan informed Aygul Charles, an immigration

lawyer with the New York State Youth Leadership Council who is representing Nadiaand Nazmin, that he will review their case. The attorney has petitioned for deferredaction and stay of removal for Nadia and Nazmin. Nadia and her mother are underorder of supervision until ICE Director Shanahan provides a final decision on their case.Even though their fates still remain unclear, this break provides a temporary respite toNadia and her mom, who were facing a deportation order after they were denied motionto reopen their case due to a mistake of the immigration judge. Now Nadia will be ableto celebrate her 20th birthday tomorrow with her family!

Nadia arrived in the United States, from Bangladesh, in her mothers arms as a one-year old baby. Now as a 19 year old, Nadia has proven to be an outstanding student.

She has attended the second best public high school in New York and is currently a junior at Stony Brook University, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Biology andArt. Nadia aspires to someday make a major contribution to the world of medicine as apharmacist in drug research and discovery. Nadias mother, Nazmin, is the wife of agreen card holder and also the mother of three U.S. citizen children and a contributingmember of her community.

The New York State Youth Leadership Council led a public campaign that gatheredmore than 6,000 signed petitions, hundreds of phone calls to DHS, and rallied dozens atFederal Plaza today. Thanks to the support of the community, elected officials andallies, the Habib family is able to stay together for some time. We thank all the

community members across the country who supported the Habib family, as well as theelected officials who signed letters of support, made phone calls to ICE and stood up forthe Habib family and the immigrant community. Today we witnessed the power ofcommunity organizing and how united we can have more strength.

We now urge all our community members to contact NY ICE Field Office DirectorChristopher Shanahan at 212-264-5085 or 212-264-4213 to urge him to grant Nadia andNazmin deferred action and stay of removal.

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For media inquiries, contact Sonia at sonia@nysylc.org, or Daniela at 646-472-9565

####The NYSYLC is a youth led organization that seeks to improve access to higher education and creating equal opportunity forimmigrant youth and children of immigrants, regardless of immigration status through leadership development, organizing andadvocacy.

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