Tanto supervivientes como guardias de las instalaciones le dijeron a Luis Chaparro, periodista de inmigración para Vice News, que se extorsionaba a los inmigrantes para ser liberados.
“It’s a complicated question,” said Rosalind Black, citywide housing director at Legal Services NY, which aids tenants under the landmark city initiative to provide free representation to low-income New Yorkers facing eviction in housing court. Though the results have been overwhelmingly positive, the program has never been funded to cover every eligible tenant.
“We think we’ve identified over 1,500 421-a buildings that are out of compliance with the rent stabilization laws,” said Aaron Carr, executive director at watchdog group Housing Rights Initiative. “Whether you’re a tenant or a taxpayer you should be up in arms about this.”
According to ICE’s detention management tool, 55 immigrants are detained at the upstate New York jail. Nahum Ortiz, one of the plaintiffs, says ICE is only renting one of the jail’s wings. “The ICE wing shouldn’t be treating us the same way as criminals. We’re not waiting for our sentencing, but we get the same treatment.”
Por la frontera noreste de los Estados Unidos, en el sector de Swanton, que incluye partes de Vermont, Nueva York y Nuevo Hampshire, se han dado en los últimos meses dos tipos de cruces: unos cruzan de los Estados Unidos a Canadá; otros van desde Canadá a Estados Unidos. En ambos tipos de cruces se ha visto un aumento en los últimos meses.
The process, called an administrative dismissal, is enshrined in state law. The Office of Court Administration wiped out a category of older eviction cases that property owners started before the end of 2020 seeking to recover unpaid rent, in which tenants never filed a response and the landlords took no further action.
“For many asylum seekers like me, the United States is a beacon of hope, providing refuge and safety from the violence many of us experience at home. Yet the sense of relief and security we find here quickly evaporates as we navigate an expensive and confusing court system by ourselves.”
Según la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP por sus siglas en inglés), entre febrero y finales de abril de 2022, hubo más de 20.000 encuentros con ucranianos, muchos de estos ocurrieron en la frontera con México.
“This policy, while likely formed with good intent, is short-sighted and places more strain on a system that is close to breaking. It also shifts focus and continues to villainize individuals who need help, rather than providing the resources that they desperately need. This is a band-aid, meant to make the problem less visible, ignoring the real issues.”
La Liga de Ciudadanos Latinoamericanos Unidos o LULAC (por sus siglas en inglés) propuso a la administración Biden que se aplique una moratoria de tres a seis meses en la aceptación de nuevas solicitudes de asilo y que se lleve a cabo una cumbre en la frontera.
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