By: Dara Lind Editorial credit: Poetra.RH / Shutterstock.com On April 8, a family came to the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana and asked to be let into the United States to seek asylum. The husband’s arm was bleeding. He’d been shot. The cartel that had driven him and his family from Jalisco the […]
By: Gwynne Hogan and Haidee Chu / thecity.nyc Editorial Credit: John Gomez / Shutterstock.com The Sunset Park Recreation Center is blocks north of a newly-carved majority Asian City Council district in Brooklyn, City Council but that didn’t stop candidates Ying Tan and Susan Zhuang from holding competing rallies on a recent Sunday objecting to the use of […]
By: AmericasVoice.Org Photo Contributor: Stuart Miles/ Shutterstock.com Washington, DC – Tomorrow – August 15, 2023 – marks the 11th anniversary of the first day certain Dreamers could sign up for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Created under President Obama, DACA has been one of the few safeguards for undocumented migrants who face increasing threats from Republican-led policies […]
Posted by American Immigration Council Staff// ImmigrationImpact.com My first Fourth of July was in the Texas country. Fireworks, lawn games, little American flags, burgers, and Old Navy tees—I got the full experience. As a young immigrant, I was slowly growing accustomed to the culture. I knew that the Fourth of July was a big deal because […]
by Raul Pinto// ImmigrationImpact.com Editorial credit: Smiling Satsuma / Shutterstock.com Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in U.S. v. Texas, which allows the Biden administration to resume its implementation of guidelines for immigration enforcement within the interior of the United States, otherwise known as enforcement priorities. The Court held that the states challenging the legality […]
African women trafficked into the UAE are forced into debt and subjected to threats and violence, as they are kept in sexual slavery. The case of Christy Gold, who has been charged with sex trafficking in Nigeria, highlights the torment endured by these women in the UAE. By MAGGIE MICHAEL // Reuters.com On a pleasure boat […]
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 […]
AV PRESS RELEASES Editorial credit: William Hunton / Shutterstock.com Washington, DC – Yesterday, Ron DeSantis traveled to Arizona for an anti-immigration speech and garnered more attention for his latest dehumanizing political stunt to fly migrants to California. As the New York Times correctly noted, “stoking outrage is the point.” While Gov. DeSantis is clearly trying […]
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 […]