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ICE Transfers Detained Immigrants From NY Jail Without Notice

Daniel Parra | July 26, 2022

Immigration officials confirmed the moves to City Limits Tuesday, and lawyers say some 35 detainees have been sent from the Orange County Jail to as far away as Mississippi.

immigration policy

Opinion: Congress Must Support Immigrant Workers to Ensure NY’s Economic Success

Quenia Abreu | November 4, 2021

‘Businesses across the state and nation are experiencing a significant labor shortage. The key to solving this crisis rests largely in our ability to maximize the untapped potential of our most vulnerable and disadvantaged residents. That starts by offering thousands of undocumented individuals, many of whom are holding essential jobs that keep our city running, a pathway to citizenship.’

Poverty

Expanding NY’s Earned Income Tax Credit Could Aid Thousands of Immigrant Families

Daniel Parra | September 23, 2021

Federal and state eligibility rules disqualify those who file with Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, or ITINs—a common practice among immigrant workers. Experts estimate that there are around 107,610 children in ITIN-filing households across New York State.

2021 elections

For Your Calendar: NYC’s Mayoral Candidates Talk Immigration Policy

Jeanmarie Evelly | April 30, 2021

City Limits is partnering with the New York Immigration Coalition, THE CITY and Gotham Gazette for a mayoral forum May 6 where the candidates vying to be the city’s next mayor will discuss their immigration platforms.

2021 election

What New York City’s Mayoral Candidates Are Saying About Immigration

Daniel Parra | March 10, 2021

What the candidates are saying so far — and what advocates hope they will eventually talk about.

Una Ciudad sin Límites

Administración Trump obsesionada por transformar el sistema migratorio: Reporte señala 63 cambios durante la pandemia y más de 400 en total

Daniel Parra | August 7, 2020

El nivel de obsesión y de adicción al trabajo en temas de inmigración hacen única a la administración Trump.

After the Injunction: Trump’s ‘Public Charge’ Rule, Explained

Jeanmarie Evelly | October 23, 2019

‘This rule, this change that they’re trying to put into effect, it actually touches very few people. Public Charge as a test does not apply to all immigrants, does not apply to all immigration applications,’ says Sonia Lin, of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

DACA: What Those Who Have it, and Those Who Want it, Need to Know

Angela Fernandez | September 8, 2017

The current administration has declared today that the DACA program is set to fully expire on March 5, 2018. Congress has 6 months to pass legislation to save almost 1 million American youth from going back to living in the shadows. Here is what you need to know right now!

On the Border of Justice

What is Life Like in Immigration Detention?

Jarrett Murphy | December 30, 2015

Reporter Batya Ungar-Sargon, immigration lawyer Talia Peleg and professional signer (and one-time immigration detainee) Nnecka Ifemesia appeared on the Brian Lehrer Show to discuss the City Limits series “On the Border of Justice.”

On the Border of Justice

Asylum Hearings Decide Whose Danger Makes Them Deserving

Batya Ungar-Sargon | December 18, 2015

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 fits into the framework of U.S. asylum policy.

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