Los programas que se interrumpieron fueron: el Immigration Court Helpdesk (Servicio de Ayuda en las Cortes de Inmigración), la Counsel for Children Initiative (Iniciativa de Asesoría Jurídica para Menores) y el Family Group Legal Orientation Program (Programa de Orientación Jurídica para Grupos Familiares).
Como resultado de las elecciones de 2024, los republicanos ganaron el control de ambas cámaras del Congreso, y para pasar este proyecto de ley, 46 demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes y 12 demócratas del Senado apoyaron la medida.
“Operation Restore Roosevelt deflects the anger and fear of other working-class New Yorkers onto disabled people, queer people, or immigrants trying to survive in an increasingly expensive city.”
New York is the only state with a refundable child tax credit that excludes low-income families from accessing the maximum amount, limiting its anti-poverty effect, experts say. If the governor’s proposal is enacted, that would finally change.
Con la llegada del presidente Donald Trump, quien durante su campaña prometió impulsar la construcción naval militar estadounidense al mismo tiempo que lleva a cabo deportaciones masivas, una de las preguntas que surgen es como se verá afectada esta industria y si se podrán cumplir los objetivos de producción durante un periodo en que los inmigrantes estarían en el foco.
“With as much urgency as possible, the City Council must pass Intro. 214 to ensure that city agencies face consequences for conspiring with ICE. Anything less will result in historic levels of unwarranted expulsions of immigrant New Yorkers.”
“Providing legal support will likely result in an additional 53,000 New Yorkers being able to remain in their communities. And yet, the government is not required to give them a lawyer, even though the rulings of these cases can result in traumatizing, life-altering consequences.”
Child advocates worry that the city’s school system does not efficiently track migrant students, including those who’ve been living at the tent shelter complex in East Brooklyn that’s closing this week.
Defensores y abogados dijeron que la mayoría de las personas que se enfrentan a cargos por trabajo sexual en Queens son inmigrantes, cuyos procedimientos de inmigración y capacidad para encontrar mejores puestos de trabajo podrían verse afectados por sus detenciones.
Advocates and defense attorneys said the majority of people facing a prostitution charge under the city’s crackdown in Queens are immigrants, whose immigration proceedings and ability to find better jobs could be affected by their arrests.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s yearly nationwide census, based on data collected in January 2024, counted 771,480 people experiencing homelessness—up 18 percent from 2023.
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