Se estima que a 2020 Estados Unidos albergaba la mayor población de inmigrantes haitianos en el continente con unos 705.000 y se encuentran mayormente concentrados en ciudades como Miami, Nueva York y Boston.
¿Cuál fue el rol de los latinos e inmigrantes durante el Ocupa Walls Street? ¿Cómo el tema de inmigración se sumó a las demandas de los ocupantes de Wall Street? Participantes, académicos y periodistas reconstruyen la influencia de los latinos y los inmigrantes en la ocupación.
‘This month, the mayor announced he will be reopening one of the closed jails on Rikers to accommodate the rising jail population driven by unchecked fear mongering from his police commissioner. This is the wrong move, especially under the horrific conditions in which people are currently being held.’
Tenants say they fear the property owners are waging a war of attrition, waiting the renters out until they give up, move on and forfeit the rent-regulated apartments.
“Until today, the NYPD has been using private information from sealed arrests in over a dozen of their interconnected surveillance databases, and has trained its officers that it is okay to violate the law,” said Niji Jain, an attorney at the Bronx Defenders.
Elizabeth McDonough, parlamentarian, escribió en su fallo que este caso “supera sustancialmente el impacto presupuestario”. Entonces ¿qué opciones quedan para presionar por una reforma que abra el camino para la ciudadanía a millones de indocumentados?
As a deepening humanitarian crisis inside the Rikers Island jail complex fuels efforts to release more detainees, a judge’s decision can come down to one key consideration: Do they have a stable address?
The Department of Correction (DOC) is refusing to disclose how it ensured the safety of inmates in its more restrictive housing units, including during a record-breaking heat wave this summer, two petitions filed in Queens court Thursday by the Legal Aid Society allege.
Dozens of men splitting a single jug of water, sweating walls in cell units, inmates sucking air from cracks under doors—these are just some of the conditions inmates and advocates have reported from Rikers Island over the past few months.
Desde junio de este año el Departamento de Protección al Consumidor y al Trabajador (DCWP por sus siglas en inglés) ha realizado 1.508 inspecciones de venta en las calles y ha emitido 424 infracciones en la ciudad, una cifra cercana al promedio de citaciones civiles que emitió la policía de la ciudad antes de la pandemia.
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