Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com As mayor, it is my sacred duty to keep New Yorkers safe. I campaigned on making New York City a safer place to live, work, and raise a family, and now, after a little over a year and a half in office, we continue to see the results. Shootings […]
Written By: Greg B. Smith Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday announced new leadership for the New York City Housing Authority at a moment when the nation’s biggest public housing authority is facing a near-existential crisis, forced to squeeze every penny out of some households while also confronting tenants who have simply […]
By JR Holguin Editorial credit: Sheila Fitzgerald / Shutterstock.com Eleven years since the creation of DACA, Dreamers continue facing the uncertainty of deportation due to the 2021 ruling by a Texas judge declaring it illegal, barring new recipients from applying and leaving the fate of DACA uncertain. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen […]
Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By CAW Editorial Staff New York politician and House of Representatives member for District 9, Yvette Clarke, is a Democratic member who strongly advocates for comprehensive immigration reform and policies that support immigrant communities. As the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, Congresswoman Clarke personally understands immigrants’ contributions to American society […]
Posted by Kate Goettel // ImmigrationImpact.com Usurping the role of the federal government, state legislatures in Florida and Texas have proposed multiple harmful immigration bills during this year’s legislative session. Several Florida immigration bills passed while the Texas bills have—for now—not moved off the legislative floor. Florida’s Immigration Bills On May 8, 2023, Florida Governor Ron […]
By: Alan Rice and Jack Hepworth // TheConversation.com From the earliest arrivals of what would become Preston’s “Windrush generation”, the status of the Caribbean diaspora was hotly contested in this post-industrial Lancashire town, as elsewhere. Discrimination and prejudice dogged the daily lives of people from the Caribbean who made their home here. In 1955, the […]
Photo by Oscar B. Castillo The New York for All Act prohibits local law enforcement and state agencies from colluding with federal immigration authorities The livestream is here. Photos and videos are here. High-res photos by Oscar B. Castillo are here. New York—On Thursday, June 1 the New York For All Coalition, elected officials, immigrant rights advocates, allies and impacted […]
Editorial credit: Vlad Ispas / Shutterstock.com When Mayor Adams and city leaders unveiled the nation’s first proposed minimum pay rate for food delivery workers last year, they made a bold promise: New York would finally deliver economic stability for an “essential” workforce. The city was required by Local Law 115 of 2021 to implement a […]
By Emily Mella Pablo and James A. Parrott // centernyc.org New York City’s unemployment rate for the first quarter of this year (January-March) fell to 5.3 percent, down from 6.4 percent in the first quarter of 2022. The city continues to lag national performance, with the overall U.S. unemployment rate for the latest quarter clocking […]
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 […]