White House Announces New Steps on Work Authorization for Eligible Individuals Following Conversation Between President Biden and Governor Hochul New York State Department of Labor Will Connect Work-Eligible Asylum Seekers and Migrants with Employers Looking for Workers State Has Allocated More Than $30 Million To Help Migrants File Paperwork to Receive Work Authorization Traducción al […]
By Germania Rodriguez Poleo | Dailymail New York governor Kathy Hochul welcomed asylum seekers with ‘open arms’ and pledged to house them just three years before telling migrants to ‘go elsewhere’ because the city is at its limit. The Democrat addressed the migrant crisis on Wednesday, warning that asylum seekers who arrive in New York City will not be housed in hotel rooms […]
Earlier this week, an op-ed by Speaker Adams and NYIC Executive Director Murad Awawdeh urging the designation, re-designation, and renewal of TPS for several countries was published in amNY. Statement by New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams: “I applaud the Biden administration for re-designating Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela to chart a path towards expedited work […]
New York, NY—Today, the Biden administration announced it will be extending and re-designating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans who arrived in the United States before July 31, 2023. Temporary Protected Status is a temporary immigration status granted by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to individuals who are unable to return home safely […]
By Jon Campbell | Gothamist | September 20, 2023 An estimated 472,000 Venezuelan migrants — including tens of thousands in New York City — will receive protection from deportation and be eligible to receive work permits under a new action announced Wednesday evening by the Biden administration. The Department of Homeland Security will extend and re-designate […]
Editorial credit: Leonard Zhukovsky / Shutterstock.com By Scott R. Axelrod, Staten Island Advance Sep. 19—STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Several dozen people from Staten Island and other boroughs gathered in Port Richmond Monday evening for a pro-migrant rally, standing in direct contrast to multiple anti-migrant housing protests held over the last several weeks outside the former […]
Migrants outside of a shelter in Brooklyn. Alex Krales/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | SEP 19, 2023 Adults who reapply for shelter will have just 30 days, and families with children may be given their own deadline for the first time. Adult migrants reentering city shelters will have just 30 days for that stay, an […]
By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Sep 14, 2023 Since President Biden took office, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been escalating both rhetoric and action in response to a rise in migration across the Rio Grande. Right now, challenges to his latest maneuver—installing 1,000 feet of “marine barrier” in the middle of the Rio Grande—are making their way through the […]
By Emily Ngo, Jeff Coltin and Nick Reisman | 09/05/2023 Expediting work authorization for migrants won’t be quick. And in this political climate, it won’t be easy. There’s actually only so much that President Joe Biden can change, making the pressure from Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams and others limited in its ability to lead to change. So how could work eligibility be […]
Editorial credit: Sergei Bachlakov / Shutterstock.com New York City is home to people from all over the world. We may eat different foods and speak different languages, but in the end, we all want things: jobs, good schools for our children, public safety, and a chance to live the American Dream. A central part of […]
