Editorial credit: NYC Russ / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice | February 9, 2024 New York, NY — A recent article in The New York Times highlights how New Yorkers are helping migrant families find housing and ensuring their children have access to basic needs. New Yorkers understand the mutual benefits behind helping migrants and that if the state wants […]
Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is supporting a plan approved earlier this month by the state’s Civil Service Commission that could help fill many of the roughly 10,000 unfilled positions within state agencies. The effort would speed up the process for both qualified New Yorkers and new migrants who have legal permission to work to apply for state […]
Karolynn Diaz, left, and Alejandro Arango return to the Row Hotel after their 60-day evictions, trying to reclaim items the hotel staff said would be stored, Jan. 31, 2024. Credit: Gwynne Hogan/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | February 2, 2024 After nine days waiting at the Roosevelt Hotel migrant intake center to get placed in a new […]
By Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio | January 19, 2024 | Documented The migrant men lay their blankets on the wood floor, where they would spend the night. Many had not been able to shower in more than a week. Others said they felt sick as their coughs echoed through the room. The recent snowstorm added […]
Editorial credit: Mircea Moira / Shutterstock.com By Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio | January 17, 2024 |Documented As snow fell on New York City Tuesday morning, dozens of migrants continued to wait outside the city’s reticketing center at the now-closed St. Brigid’s Catholic School on East 7th Street in below freezing temperatures. They wore beanies, […]
Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By Tim Balk, Evan Simko-Bednarski, and Tea Kvetenadze | NY Daily News ALBANY — Gov. Hochul on Tuesday proposed a $233 billion budget that would include about $2.4 billion for the city’s migrant crisis, vowing not to raise taxes but declaring that the state “must support the City of New York in this […]
Migrant families prepare to leave the Roosevelt Hotel shelter after receiving their 60-day notices, Jan. 16, 2024. Credit: Gwynne Hogan/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | January 17, 2024 Pregnant migrants in their third trimester and women with newborn babies will get a reprieve from shelter evictions until their babies turn six months old, city officials told THE […]
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 […]
Migrant families being moved to and from the Roosevelt Hotel ahead of reaching a 60-day shelter limit. Credit: Alex Krales/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan, Michael Elsen-Rooney, and Chalkbeat | January 8, 2024 Thousands of migrant families with school-aged children will begin having their time in city shelters run out starting Tuesday this week as the first 60-day […]
Editorial credit: Vic Hinterlang / Shutterstock.com By Joseph Ellis | January 7, 2024 | MSN New Jersey officials report buses dropping off illegal aliens at train stations to continue their journey into New York City, despite Mayor Eric Adams’ restrictive measures. Governor Phil Murphy’s office states that buses are using New Jersey as a transit point, with migrants […]