Photo Editorial credit: lev radin May 13, 2023 NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the launch of the city’s first asylum seeker arrival center and the placement of what will be the city’s ninth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center as hundreds of asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York […]
NYSNA nurses rally at Foley Square for safe staffing and pay parity. Photo credit: Rochni Khatri Public hospital and Mayoral agency nurses and supporters sounded the alarm on the crisis of high turnover and understaffing that harms patient care 25% of staff nurse positions remain vacant in NYC public hospitals and the city spent a […]
NEW YORK—Unions and worker justice organizations are joining the call for lawmakers in Albany to pass the New York for All Act, which would broadly prohibit local and state agencies from assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) in searching for, arresting and deporting immigrant New Yorkers. Twenty-five labor unions […]
By Simon Nicholas Williams// The Conversation.com World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic). This coincides with the WHO’s new strategy to transition from an emergency response to longer-term sustained COVID disease management. This may not change too much practically. COVID will still have pandemic status, and countries […]
Photo Editorial credit: Whitney Welshimer BY Ruby Mendenhall and Loren Henderson Black mothers are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to the mental and physical harms of stress from living with gun violence in America. In the U.S., Black people are likelier than white people to reside in impoverished, racially segregated communities with high […]
BY JOSE MARTINEZ AND KATIE HONAN Two days after one subway rider killed another using a deadly chokehold, dozens of people gathered on a crowded Manhattan subway platform to demand justice and for more social services for people in need. The identity of the man who fatally strangled Jordan Neely, 30, is still unknown, as […]
Editorial photo credit: Mike Hardiman Washington, DC – The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the Biden administration’s “sweeping new actions to manage regional migration,” announced yesterday: “We welcome the Biden’s administration’s announcement to expand legal pathways, create new regional refugee processing centers, and expand family reunification […]
Posted by Suchita Mathur, Immigration Impact A family with a baby, waiting outside in the cold overnight. A pregnant woman, enduring the elements for multiple days. An Afghan who worked for the U.S. Army as a translator, hoping for food and water. Asylum seekers who traveled from as far as Africa and Asia, looking for protection. […]
By Gianna Borroto, Immigration Impact The Departments of State and Homeland Security announced recently that the Central American Minors (CAM) Program is being expanded, which will allow more children from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala to safely reunite with parents and guardians already living in the United States. The expansion makes children eligible for CAM if their […]
Listen to a special podcast Article: By Samantha Max, Gothamist.com Police found a weapon in about one out of six pedestrian stops last year and found a firearm in about one out of 13 stops, a Gothamist analysis of NYPD data shows. The majority of stops resulted in no arrest or summons. This as […]