Photo Credit: Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) NEW YORK, NY – The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) Commissioner Manuel Castro, NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue, NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez and diverse immigrant communities today announced the naming of the historic Immigrant Heritage Plaza located south of Bowling Green Park. […]
New York City, NY/ USA- 11-18-18: NYC Subway Employee Workers Repair Work Underground Train Tracks New York City Subway Jobs. (Shutterstock) Local 100 President Richard Davis attacked the MTA for planning to cut subway service in an Op-Ed. Davis says service cuts will force riders to wait longer for trains, experience more crowding, and lead […]
According to new figures from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the countries where most of these new citizens came from were Cuba, the Philippines, India, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, interviews and ceremonies were suspended, resulting in a backlog of applications that got approved only […]
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on preserving and protecting Democracy at Union Station on November 2, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Shutterstock) By JR Holguin On Thursday, January 5, President Biden unveiled a new strategy that includes extending Title 42 expulsions of people who enter the U.S. through the southern border while granting humanitarian parole […]
By Linda Nwoke Drug convictions can have life-altering consequences for any individual, but the results can be even more severe for immigrants. Many immigrants are unaware that a drug conviction can affect their immigration status. Federal immigration laws detail severe immigration penalties on most controlled substance offenses, including minor ones. In California, a conviction based […]
El Paso, Texas / USA – March 7, 2020: A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol vehicle drives along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Shutterstock) By Raul Pinto, Immigration Impact On January 5, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced new measures to process people seeking asylum at ports of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border who are asking to […]
By Lukas I. Alpert, MarketWatch “I’m everything you imagine me to be, as long as it’s good and it’s Godly.” That’s how Dennis Jali, a South African self-proclaimed finance guru sold his Christian-themed program of financial success to crowds of mainly African immigrants at churches and banquet halls in and around Baltimore and Washington, D.C. […]
By David Leopold, America’s Voice Washington, DC: The following is an assessment previewing the Supreme Court and 2023: Today, [January 9] the United States Supreme Court will hold its first arguments of 2023. Over their break, the Court again showed it is a willing accomplice to Republican politicians when it stayed the implementation of Title […]
Managua, Nicaragua – June 15, 2019: A Nicaraguan woman holds her child as he sits in the window of a barrio church. Happy mother and son enjoy a visit from American missionaries. (Shutterstock) On Jan. 5, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a safe and lawful way for qualifying Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans with U.S.-based […]
NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 9: A Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) medallion seen on a parked New York City yellow taxi in Queens on March 9, 2021 in New York City. (Shutterstock) By Amir Khafagy, Documented NY It was an unusually mild August day in 2021, when immigrant Jamaican-American Stanford Miller, 49, who was […]