Los afrolatinos tienen tasas de pobreza más altas, 23 por ciento en 2019, en comparación con los latinos y la población general de los Estados Unidos, con una tasa de 20 por ciento.
La palabra “inmigración” solo se mencionó una sola vez en el discurso, cuando dijo “Y unámonos también en cuanto a la inmigración. Hagámoslo un asunto bipartidista como solía serlo”.
En la actualidad hay 38 miembros latinos en la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos: 28 demócratas y 10 republicanos. Antes de las contiendas, organizaciones como la Asociación Nacional de Funcionarios Latinos Elegidos y Nombrados (NALEO por sus siglas en inglés) proyectaban un aumento histórico de la representación latina.
Immigrant advocates say they would prefer to continue to work with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, citing past accomplishments like the Excluded Workers Fund, and worry what a potential Lee Zeldin governorship would mean for their causes.
Length of stay at the cavernous barracks on Randall’s Island will depend on the availability of other housing options, and the efforts of New York City officials who have pledged to streamline exits from the emergency shelter facility.
City Limits used the Freedom of Information Law to obtain data from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on weekly COVID-19 deaths by race/ethnicity from September 2020—after the first wave had just passed—to the end of July of 2022.
The city estimates that around 6,300 asylum seekers have arrived via buses from the border in recent months. In addition to finding a safe place to stay, they must navigate access to medical care, keep tabs on their ongoing immigration cases and in some cases, attempt to reunite with family members they were separated from during their journeys. Some have left the shelter system altogether, citing safety concerns.
Más de un mes después de que la Corte Suprema permitiera a la administración Biden poner fin al programa de los Protocolos de Protección al Migrante, mejor conocido como “Permanecer en México” o MPP por sus siglas, la administración Biden procede a dar de baja a los inmigrantes que todavía estaban inscritos en el MPP y con ello finalmente se empieza a desmantelar dicho programa.
After a two-month journey from South America to the U.S. Border and a two-day bus ride from Texas to New York City, immigrants who spoke with City Limits just wanted a bite to eat and a place to rest. “I just want to work and get ahead,” one recently-arrived man said.
Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday doubled down on his claim that thousands of asylum-seekers have strained New York City’s homeless shelter system, causing his administration to break state law by keeping at least four families in an intake facility overnight.
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