An elaborate community planning process underway in East Harlem has the Council speaker’s backing, foundation support, critics and fans. What it doesn’t have is a sense of whether and how…
The comptroller’s audit finds that too many DHS apartments are in poor shape and too few families who live there are getting the services they need. City Hall says it…
Unlike its counterparts in other cities, Citi Bike is privately financed. But amid a push for it to serve more neighborhoods, and with city law requiring the company to publicize…
Watch a lawyer, a woman who spent six months in immigration detention and a City Limits reporter discuss the court system that decides who gets to stay in the U.S.…
In hearings for those seeking asylum, claims of persecution must be evaluated by judges and ICE with little evidence to go on, and a byzantine system of laws to guide…
Applying an antiquated law, often with little evidence to go on, immigration judges must determine not whether or not someone is afraid to go back home, but whether their fear…
Far from the debate over immigration on the campaign trail, the reality of U.S. policy plays out in immigration courthouses, where lawyers can be hard to come by, detention without…
Statistics show the whether or not an immigrant is detained during their case, and whether or not they have a lawyer, have enormous bearing on outcomes in immigration court. New…
The courtrooms where immigration justice plays out in and near New York City are where overtaxed lawyers, desperate families and shackled inmates bear the human weight of a broken system.
There are no shortage of ideas on what the city should do now to deal with rising shelter numbers. But selecting the right cure depends on diagnosing the causes of…
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