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Activist Niurka Meléndez explains that the situation has a “terrible impact” on thousands of “forced” immigrants from Venezuela.
Adding to the calamity of having fled a dreadful humanitarian crisis back home, the growing community of Venezuelans in New York is experiencing a new dramatic obstacle due to the closing of their country’s consulate in Manhattan.
The coalition pointed out that a Democratic government in the White House does not necessarily mean less pressure against undocumented people.
Long lines over the weekend did not stop thousands from coming out this week to vote, El Diario reports.
He was seen as a pioneer and possible future commissioner in an agency where Latinos comprise an increasingly large part of the ranks.
A study finds that the Raise the Age policy shift has had an impact, but the pool of kids being arrested has grown even more Black and Latino, El Diario reports.
Local legislators are trying to find options to prevent 3.1 million immigrant people from continuing to bear the heaviest brunt of the crisis.
Some of the business owners who struggled through the summer of COVID remember the impact of the 2001 plane crash and a 2012 superstorm on the peninsula.
From street vendors to nearby shops, the largely Latino Bronx neighborhood is feeling the loss of this year’s crowds. “Many people here depend on what goes on before, during and after a game,” one resident says.
Salon workers and owners, many of them immigrants, head back to work this week as part of New York’s Phase 3 reopening. But many are worried about how new social distancing restrictions will impact their livelihood.
Despite the pandemic, voters in Bronx’s heavily-Latino Congressional District 15 showed up to cast ballots in person.