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.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: The City Council Must Protect NYC’s Sanctuary Laws
Karla Ostolaza and Rosa Cohen-Cruz |
“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.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Everyone Deserves a Lawyer. Pass the Access to Representation Act
Priya Vaikuntapathi |
“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.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Policing, Surveillance, and False Promises of Safety
Sadia Saba |
“Ineffective technology and police violence is only a symptom of a larger problem of politicians claiming that these are what the average citizen needs to feel safe, rather than addressing the root causes that can produce real safety.”
Government
Trabajadoras sexuales inmigrantes en medio de la “Operación Restaurar Roosevelt”
Daniel Parra |
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.
Government
The Immigrant Sex Workers Caught Up in ‘Operation Restore Roosevelt’
Daniel Parra |
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.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Accountability for Daniel Penny And Concern For Public Safety Are Not Mutually Exclusive
M.A. Dennis |
“Can I love and support a family member who was harmed by someone experiencing homelessness and also be against the unnecessary and unjust killing of an unhoused person?”
Government
NYC Housing Calendar, Nov. 18-25
Jeanmarie Evelly |
This week, City Council committees will vote on the mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ for housing plan, and hold hearings on deed theft, basement apartments and more.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Reducing Fare Evasion Starts With Expanding Access to Fair Fares, Not Policing
Ryan Vinh |
“The MTA’s budgetary woes will not be solved by issuing fare evasion tickets in neighborhoods like Brownsville, where one in three residents live in poverty, especially when overtime pay for NYPD officers in the subway climbed from $4 million to $155 million in 2023.”
Government
In Early Weeks, New Online Notice of Eviction Rule for City Marshals is Inconsistently Enforced
Patrick Spauster |
A new state law requires New York City marshals to post notices of eviction to the state court website, in addition to serving them in person. Several marshals posted them late—or not at all—according to City Limits’ review of a sample of September eviction notices. Some lawyers say it’s a violation of tenants’ due process rights.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYC Must Live Up To Its Decarceration Promises
Jay Edidin |
“It has become increasingly clear that the Adams administration has committed to expand a policy of mass incarceration over community services and other less expensive, more effective alternatives. The current administration would have you believe that this is the only option. It is not.” Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeMayor Eric Adams at Rikers Island in June 2022. CityViews are readers’ opinions, not those of City Limits.
