Commentary: An Opportunity for New York to Lead on Immigration Policy

Commentary: An Opportunity for New York to Lead on Immigration Policy

By Murad Awawdeh Gov. Hochul, let’s show the nation how to shape a morally sound, economically beneficial response to the migrant crisis. As 2024 sets in, immigrant communities all over are bracing for a year of attacks and policy proposals that threaten to eliminate crucial protections and resources.  President Joe Biden and congressional leaders are considering cruel […]

How Mayor Adams and President Biden Helped Set the Stage for Immigration Reform, However Unwittingly

How Mayor Adams and President Biden Helped Set the Stage for Immigration Reform, However Unwittingly

By Arun Venugopal | January 12, 2024 | Gothamist The last time Congress enacted immigration reform was 1986. Ronald Reagan was president. Ed Koch was New York mayor. “Platoon” was in the movie theaters. Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on takeoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Since then, Congress and the White House have only known stalemate and […]

Scammers Posing as Immigration Lawyers to Target Asylum Seekers in New York City, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Says

Scammers Posing as Immigration Lawyers to Target Asylum Seekers in New York City, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Says

Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By Doug Williams | January 12, 2024 | CBS News NEW YORK — The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is taking action against scammers posing as immigration lawyers and taking advantage of one of New York City’s most vulnerable populations: asylum seekers. On Friday, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg announced the indictment of a 33-year-old man […]

Denver Mayor’s Faith Guides Him on Immigration Issue as City Grapples with Migrant Crisis: ‘Not Sustainable’

Denver Mayor’s Faith Guides Him on Immigration Issue as City Grapples with Migrant Crisis: ‘Not Sustainable’

By David Rutz | January 12, 2024 | MSN Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston says his city is on an unsustainable fiscal path due to an influx of migrants that’s greater per capita than any other major American city. But he tells conservatives who are angered at the country’s mounting border crisis that his Christian faith […]

State Department Extends Nonimmigrant Visa Interview Waivers Indefinitely

State Department Extends Nonimmigrant Visa Interview Waivers Indefinitely

By Adriel Orozco | January 11, 2024 The State Department announced an update to its discretionary interview waiver policy for nonimmigrant visa applicants on December 21, 2023. It replaces the temporary policies in place for almost three years. Most importantly, the State Department made this a standing policy that will be reviewed annually, which will decrease uncertainty […]

Attorney General James Leads Multistate Coalition to Stop Sales of Military-Grade Ammunition Used in Mass Shootings

Attorney General James Leads Multistate Coalition to Stop Sales of Military-Grade Ammunition Used in Mass Shootings

Federally Funded Factory Produced Ammunition Used at Tops Supermarket Shooting in Buffalo and Other Recent Mass Shootings NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James led a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general calling on the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to investigate recent reports that a federally funded contractor has produced military-grade […]

ICYMI — NEW REPORT: “Asylum-seekers Have Pumped Millions into Long Island’s Economy”

ICYMI — NEW REPORT: “Asylum-seekers Have Pumped Millions into Long Island’s Economy”

By America’s Voice | January 10, 2024 New York, NY — New research highlighted in Newsday found that migrants and asylum seekers are “pumping millions” into Long Island’s economy. The report found that for every thousand migrants that arrive in New York, they contribute $3 million in state and local taxes. As migrants move into more skilled positions in […]

City Hall Scrambles to Send Migrant Families From Tent Shelter to Sleep in a School During Severe Storm

City Hall Scrambles to Send Migrant Families From Tent Shelter to Sleep in a School During Severe Storm

The city evacuated migrants from Floyd Bennett Field while a major storm brought strong rain and winds, Jan. 9, 2023. Credit: Alex Krales/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan and Michael Elsen-Rooney, Chalkbeat | January 10, 2024 Officials hastily moved hundreds of families living at the Floyd Bennett Field migrant shelter in Brooklyn early Tuesday evening as a powerful storm […]

Is It Natural? A Study On Same-Sex Orientation Study Reveals Personality Markers In DNA

Is It Natural? A Study On Same-Sex Orientation Study Reveals Personality Markers In DNA

By Lea Bennette Imagine a world where science meets love – that’s exactly what researchers have been up to in a groundbreaking study on the genetics of same-sex attraction. In a 2019 genome-wide association study found here, (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aat7693), researchers conducted a large-scale study involving massive scale data research of the people from the United Kingdom […]

Weathering a Nationwide Tripledemic

Weathering a Nationwide Tripledemic

By Selen Ozturk | January 9, 2024 | Ethnic Media Services A surging “tripledemic” of COVID-19, flu and RSV threatens to overburden an already burdened U.S. healthcare system. At a Friday, January 5 briefing co-hosted by Ethnic Media Services and Blue Shield of California Foundation, medical experts discussed tripledemic predictions; the newest JN.1 strain of […]