June 7, 2023 By: nyc.gov New York City Seeks to Invalidate Unlawful Executive Orders Seeking to Prohibit City from Providing Temporary Housing to Small Number of Asylum Seekers During Statewide Emergency NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Corporation Counsel Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix today announced that the City of New […]
The city’s allocation through the new federal Shelter and Services Program constitutes around 30 percent of the money announced Wednesday and is much larger than payments to other cities. By JOE ANUTA // Politico.com Editorial credit: DCStockPhotography / Shutterstock.com NEW YORK — New York City is set to receive $104.6 million in federal funds to help […]
From the Irish potato famine to the 1970s fiscal crisis, immigration has been key to the city’s growth in ways that are playing out again as asylum-seekers arrive. BY GREG DAVID // TheCity.nyc Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com New York has been “destroyed by the migrant crisis,” Mayor Eric Adams claimed in April at a […]
Posted by Alex Miller // ImmigrationImpact.com Editorial credit: Procyk Radek / Shutterstock.com Time was running out for many Afghan refugees living and working in the United States after American troops withdrew from Afghanistan. Thanks to the Biden administration’s recent decision to extend what is known as “parole,” many Afghans will now be given the opportunity to […]
Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By JR Holguin Mayor Eric Adams and his administration are attempting to tackle the asylum seeker issue from all angles; Adams requested a change be made to the consent accordance that had been in place for 40 years and had established the city’s entitlement to provide shelter for people […]
On May 21, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a statement reporting on the investigation into the death of an 8-year-old girl in Border Patrol custody on May 17. According to media reports, the girl’s mother, Mabel Alvarez Benedicks, a Honduran Garífuna, claims that Border Patrol agents ignored her constant pleas for her daughter Anadith to be hospitalized. In […]
Posted by Dara Lind// ImmigrationImpact.com Back in February, when the Biden administration proposed a new regulation that would essentially restrict the vast majority of border crossers from qualifying for asylum, we broke it down with a guide to qualifying for asylum in the United States in 12 not-so-easy steps. The final regulation, published Wednesday, will go into […]
The U.S. government is granting advance travel authorization for up to 30,000 noncitizens each month to come to the United States to seek parole on a case-by-case basis under the processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. Due to high interest in these processes, USCIS is updating the review process effective May 17, 2023. We are updating […]
Through Legal Action, City & State Leaders Could Open Up Tens of Thousands Vacant Apartments to New Yorkers Experiencing Homelessness and Compel Other Municipal Governments Outside of New York City to Contribute Housing and Shelter 80,000 New Yorkers Currently Live in City Shelters, Nearly Two-Thirds of Shelter Populations Are Families with Children Over 41,000 Asylum Seekers Are in […]
By Linda Nwoke Immigration has always been a contentious subject of discussion in the US. Many people seek sanctuary in the country worldwide due to the rise in political turmoil and economic prospects. Just recently, on May 11th, Title 42 was ended, a policy that prevented asylum seekers from entering the United States, specifically from […]