Jamie Dimon Loves Private Prisons
Leave your thoughtsWhat is the most immoral industry? Tobacco? Maybe. Guns? A contender. But it is hard to imagine any industry more…
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Driver’s Licenses for All Would Better Many Lives, Including Mine
Leave your thoughtsEvery morning, I drive with my wife to work. My commute is the scariest part of my day – and…
Delivery workers who ride e-bikes need NYPD to stop ticketing, transit advocates say
Leave your thoughtsE-bike rules unfairly target low-income, immigrant delivery workers, and the city should instead support their efforts to legally comply with…
ICE Evades Sanctuary Rules by Using NYPD Fingerprints to Find Immigrants and Send Them Call-In Letters
Leave your thoughtsFROM THE BEGINNING of the Trump administration, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has championed the notion that the nation’s…
NYC Board To Consider Rent Hikes Thursday
Leave your thoughtsNEW YORK, NY — The city’s Rent Guidelines Board will begin considering rent hikes for New York City’s 1 million…
There are no more excuses
Leave your thoughtsMy family and I migrated to the U.S. in 2007. At the age of 8, I entered elementary school not…
Juez ordena reactivar DACA: obliga al Gobierno a recibir y aceptar nuevas solicitudes
Leave your thoughtsUn juez federal en Washington determinó que la decisión del presidente Donald Trump de poner fin a DACA fue arbitraria y caprichosa. Es el tercer juez que falla a favor del programa que ampara a miles de jóvenes indocumentados que llegaron al país de adolescente y en este caso no solo ordenó al Gobierno a seguir procesando renovaciones del permiso para quienes ya estén en el programa, sino también de nuevos solicitantes. Maria Santana hablo con algunos jóvenes que se benefician de DACA, quienes celebraron esta victoria.
Hearing on raising minimum wage for tipped workers draws 500
Leave your thoughtsAbout 500 people attended a contentious, day-long hearing in Farmingdale on Friday about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal to raise…
Despite budget setback, immigrants still pushing for drivers licenses, DREAM Act
Leave your thoughtsMake the Road New York, an organization of 22,000 that advocates for the rights of immigrants, say they are “deeply…
Immigration groups call on city to fund adult learning programs
Leave your thoughtsImmigrants rallied at the steps of Queens Borough Hall Tuesday to call on the de Blasio administration to continue funding…