By Annie McDonough | November 13, 2023 Inside midtown Manhattan’s grandly appointed Roosevelt Hotel – New York City’s central intake center for migrants – sit rows and rows of chairs. Lightly padded, a couple steps more comfortable than a plastic folding chair, they’re lined up under the chandelier in the hotel’s sprawling lobby. And on […]
Editorial credit: Ruben2533 / Shutterstock.com By Will Freeman | October 5, 2023 What’s the scale of the current migrant crisis in New York City? The city typically receives tens of thousands of new arrivals each year. But since spring 2022, numbers have been rising especially quickly. More than 118,000 migrants and asylum seekers, most of […]
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 […]
Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico 17-10-2022 Nearly 600 Venezuelan migrants are stranded in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua after being expelled from the United States under title 42. (Shutterstock) By Ariane de Vogue and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN CNN — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that the controversial Trump-era border restriction known as Title 42 will remain in effect while […]
Members of Black Lives Matter protest outside Federal Building to denounce the segregationist immigration policies of the Biden administration, Tuesday, Step. 21, 2021 in Los Angeles. (Shutterstock) Brooklyn, NY: The Haitian American Caucus vehemently condemns the ongoing mistreatment of Haitian migrants by federal officials, and the lack of action taken by our elected officials to […]
There were lots of Venezuelans crossing the border into the land of Colombia. This was captured on 61222 in La Parada, Colombia. (Shutterstock) By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigration Impact Faced with rising numbers of Venezuelans coming to the border and seeking asylum, the Biden administration has initiated what could be its most extensive crackdown on migrants […]
This photo was taken in La Parada, Colombia on June 12th, 2022. This family walked for 15 days to get to the border between Colombia and Venezuela. (Shutterstock) Geneva: Some 4.3 million refugees and migrants from Venezuela face challenges accessing food, housing, and stable employment, a recent assessment concludes. Despite the progress achieved through various […]
Dallas, TX USA – April 9, 2017: American Flags Waved During Immigration Reform March (Shutterstock) By Michael D. Shear and Miriam Jordan, The New York Times WASHINGTON — Even before the political spectacle of a Republican governor flying migrants to a tiny resort island in Massachusetts, President Biden’s top border officials decided there had to […]
Foley Square, New York, NY, USA – September 23, 2021: “National ‘Communities Not Cages’ Day of Action” demonstration to end deportations, close detention centers, and free detainees. (Shutterstock) By Luisa Farah Schwartzman, The Conversation The first protected category of the United Nations refugee convention is race. The 1951 convention defines a refugee as a person […]
Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico 03-20-2021 80 migrants, mostly Hondurans, live in the Good Samaritan shelter in Ciudad Juárez, they were expelled from the United States under title 42. (Shutterstock) By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigration Impact Just three days before Title 42 was set to end on May 23, a federal judge in Louisiana blocked the Centers for […]