The state legislature—which officially ended its session last week, though the Assembly is expected to return briefly before the end of the month—has so far failed to pass major legislation that advocates say would have a direct impact on the state’s growing immigrant communities.
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has embarked on a decompression strategy to free up space in the city’s local shelters by sending immigrants to other New York State localities. In Albany, where more than 230 migrants were relocated in recent weeks, community-based organizations say they are already stretched thin.
Según un reporte del Brennan Center for Justice de la facultad de derecho de la Universidad de Nueva York, la representación latina en todas las cortes supremas estatales del país es de menos del 6 por ciento, a pesar de constituir el 19 por ciento de su población, según el censo de 2020.
“No student deserves to be effectively expelled for bringing a bottle opener to school. There is no disciplinary reason to do so. In the very rare case that students do act out violently and pose a continuing risk to other students, school officials still have the possibility to expel students.”
Brooklyn tenants are trying to dismantle barriers around a seldom-used 1960s-era law that can prohibit landlords from collecting rent when they fail to fix dangerous building conditions for months on end. The campaign just had its first breakthrough.
Liego de que se levantara el Título 42, según el subsecretario de Política Fronteriza e Inmigración del DHS, Blas Núñez-Neto, las autoridades fronterizas han registrado una disminución del número de cruces de migrantes de todas las nacionalidades de más del 56 por ciento.
“These searches enable government agencies to track the whereabouts of thousands of individuals without any specific suspicion of their involvement in criminal activities.”
“Over 600 union retail workers worked at the department store across the street from the World Trade Center. Many of them are now facing health challenges related to their toxic exposure…They, and so many others who were present there during and after the 9/11 attacks, need to be notified of their rights.”
El pasado 10 de mayo, el gobernador de Florida Ron DeSantis firmó la ley 1718, centrada en inmigracino en el estado y que pide ahora chequear los requisitos de empleo, que los los hospitales pregunten por estatus migratorio en hospitales que aceptan Medicaid y destinar $12 millones de dólares para “programa de transporte de extranjeros”.
Reactions to the news were subdued in City Hall Park Thursday, where the organization VOCAL-NY had gathered to mourn not only Neely, who had been unhoused, but the at least 815 other unhoused New Yorkers who, according to city data, died in the year ending last July.
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