Days before New York City’s final budget for the next fiscal year is due, both advocates and City Council members are urging that funding be maintained to reach a similar number of students served in the fiscal year that is about to end on July 1.
El pasado 3 de mayo el presidente Biden anunció un cambio en la definición de “legalmente presente” aplicable a la elegibilidad para cobertura de Ley del Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio, creada por el expresidente Barack Obama.
El programa de “minutos gratis” se remonta a principios de la pandemia del COVID-19, cuando los centros de detención de todo el país cerraron sus puertas a las visitas. “Las llamadas telefónicas son un instrumento vital para las personas detenidas”, afirma Rosa Santana, de Envision Freedom Fund.
The “free minutes” program dates back to early in the COVID-19 pandemic, when detention centers across the country closed their doors to visitors. “The phone calls are a lifeline to people in detention,” said Rosa Santana of Envision Freedom Fund.
“President Biden’s failure to divest from for-profit detention centers during his presidential term should urge New York leaders to use their constitutional powers to stop state and local facilities from continuing to profit from ICE detention.”
Para estas elecciones, la Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles (American Civil Liberties Union o ACLU por su siglas en inglés) ha empezado a analizar los planes para un segundo mandato de Trump y Biden centrándose en varios temas específicos. El primer reporte es sobre los planes de Trump en inmigración.
“There were a lot of systems that weren’t working perfectly before COVID, and then during COVID really broke down and haven’t necessarily come back all the way,” Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park told City Limits in an interview Thursday.
El 4 de junio el presidente Joe Biden anunció una orden ejecutiva que suspende el procesamiento de solicitudes de asilo entre los puntos de entrada oficiales a lo largo de la frontera sur, y autoriza a los funcionarios de inmigración a deportar inmigrantes sin procesar sus solicitudes de asilo.
“Debemos recoger datos para entender cómo la ciudad ha apoyado las solicitudes para los permisos de trabajo, el espíritu empresarial, los programas de formación laboral y el acceso a la atención médica con el fin de identificar las lagunas en nuestros esfuerzos”, dijo la promotora de los proyectos de ley, la concejal Carlina Rivera.
“We must accumulate data to understand how the city has supported work permit applications, entrepreneurship, workforce development initiatives, and access to health care in order to identify the gaps in our efforts,” said the bill’s sponsor, Councilwoman Carlina Rivera.
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