Fondos del presupuesto fiscal de NY beneficiarán a los inmigrantes indocumentados: cómo funciona
Leave your thoughtsEl presupuesto para el año fiscal 2022 aprobado por Nueva York dará parte de los fondos para los trabajadores que han…
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Cuomo Pushes Burdensome Requirements for Undocumented Workers Fund
Leave your thoughtsAn undocumented workers fund. A measure currently planned for New York’s next budget would provide more than $2 billion in…
Hunger strike continues for undocumented workers denied COVID relief as budget deadline looms
Leave your thoughtsWith the state budget deadline fast approaching in Albany, activists are continuing a weekslong hunger strike to call attention to the…
Striking, starving workers have feet washed by pols outside Cuomo’s Manhattan office on Holy Thursday
Leave your thoughtsFollowing a Holy Thursday custom, elected officials in Manhattan washed the feet of several workers engaged in a hunger strike…
Transgender activist Lorena Borjas honored with Elmhurst street co-naming
Leave your thoughtsA towering figure in the trans immigrant community in Queens was memorialized with a street co-naming in Elmhurst Monday evening.…
Applying to College Was Never Easy for Most Students. The Pandemic Made It Nearly Impossible
Leave your thoughtsThe first sign that Twyla Joseph’s college application process was not going to go as planned came on March 13,…
Hunger strike draws attention to workers excluded from COVID-19 relief
Leave your thoughtsBy the morning of March 19, when Tony Romero arrived at the Church of the Ascension on Fifth Avenue in…
Exclusive: Queens Man, Held by ICE Despite Not Meeting Biden’s Priorities For Removal, Is Released
Leave your thoughtsEdward Alonso Castillo spent nearly two months in jail, even though he didn’t meet the priorities set by President Biden…
Immigration advocates thrilled by bill that would create pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients
Leave your thoughtsNew help for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients could be on the way after the House passed a bill…
Domestic workers call on leaders to help
Leave your thoughtsDomestic workers have been on the front lines since the beginning of the pandemic, and they’re making a plea for help. Having…