Posted by Dara Lind // The ImmirationImpact.com An internal investigation into the death of a medically vulnerable eight-year-old girl after over a week in Border Patrol custody continues to reveal shocking negligence on the part of medical contractors and Border Patrol employees. It’s becoming increasingly clear that the May 17 death of Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, an […]
Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By JR Holguin Mayor Eric Adams and his administration are attempting to tackle the asylum seeker issue from all angles; Adams requested a change be made to the consent accordance that had been in place for 40 years and had established the city’s entitlement to provide shelter for people […]
AV PRESS RELEASES Washington, DC – In a new analysis for CNN, columnist Ronald Brownstein assesses, “How legal immigration might solve two of America’s toughest problems,” underscoring the importance of legal immigration pathways to both strengthening our economy and alleviating pressures at the border. According to Douglas Rivlin, Director of Communication for America’s Voice: “At a […]
Posted by Gianna Borroto // Immigration Impact In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled last week that a transgender woman from Guatemala did not need to jump through an additional hoop—filing a new motion with the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)—before she could take her case to federal court to challenge her deportation order. The Court ruled […]
Mothers with small children — and some tykes by themselves — have become common in the subway system. BY JOSE MARTINEZ // TheCity.nyc Editorial credit: Kits Pix / Shutterstock.com As evening-rush commuters zipped through the 42nd Street subway passageway that links the Times Square and Port Authority stations last week, a mother of four young sons […]
New York—Today, the New York Immigration Coalition, Local Progress, and the NYC Council Progressive Caucus released a sign-on letter from 55 municipal, town, county and school district elected officials from all over New York State calling on the NYS Legislature to pass the New York For All Act before the end of the legislative session. The New York […]
Photo by Oscar B. Castillo The New York for All Act prohibits local law enforcement and state agencies from colluding with federal immigration authorities The livestream is here. Photos and videos are here. High-res photos by Oscar B. Castillo are here. New York—On Thursday, June 1 the New York For All Coalition, elected officials, immigrant rights advocates, allies and impacted […]
By Linda Nwoke Editorial credit: Darwin Brandis / Shutterstock.com In 2014, the Civil Rights Project at UCLA reported that New York State was the most segregated state in the nation for Black students. The problem persists. In an updated analysis using 2018 data, a new report released in June 2022 from the Civil Rights Project finds that […]
Posted by Dara Lind// ImmigrationImpact.com Back in February, when the Biden administration proposed a new regulation that would essentially restrict the vast majority of border crossers from qualifying for asylum, we broke it down with a guide to qualifying for asylum in the United States in 12 not-so-easy steps. The final regulation, published Wednesday, will go into […]
By AV PRESS RELEASES Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings and David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: This week the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, announced his intention of seeking the Republican presidential nomination in […]