Ana Maria Archila, center, from Make the Road New York, an advocacy group, and Assemblyman Francisco P. Moya, a Democrat, addressed reporters on Wednesday outside a federal immigration office in Queens. It was the first day people could apply for a new program granting temporary reprieve from deportation to some illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children.
"Today, with 12,600 dues-paying members, MRNY is a unique amalgam of worker center, legal clinic, citizenship school, mutual aid society, policy shop, protest factory and church. Its four offices in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island are an egalitarian oasis for members, who gather there for conversation and classes..."
