Sex workers and their supporters are pushing back against an industry crackdown along a stretch of Roosevelt Ave. in Queens, saying that the effort unfairly targets the communities’ most vulnerable members, including immigrants and transgender residents.
Sex workers and activists in Queens say that the city and state’s plan to send more police onto Roosevelt Avenue to quell quality of life issues is both an overblown and potentially dangerous response.
Con las frentes en alto y a viva voz, trabajadoras sexuales y vendedoras ambulantes se unieron para exigir fin de la operación denominada Restauración de la Avenida Roosevelt, que las autoridades, desde la gobernadora del estado y el alcalde Adams implementaron con decenas de policías estatales y del NYPD para eliminar los prostíbulos ilegales, trafico sexual y vendedores ambulantes sin licencias.
Labores de "limpieza" en la Avenida Roosevelt generan denuncias de quienes ven los operativos como actos de intimidación.
There's backlash a week after the New York City Police Department launched an operation to crack down on illegal brothels, sex trafficking and unlicensed vendors along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens.
The legality of the DACA program is at stake as it faces the Fifth Circuit today. The outcome could impact more than just the beneficiaries.
The differences largely boil down to taking a strict approach to law enforcement or a more accommodating one that would legitimize things like sex work and more widespread vending, even while touting new public safety initiatives.
My name is Janitzia Lara, and I am a 32 year-old Transgender woman. Three years ago I was forced to flee Nicaragua because of persecution. Since arriving in New York I have found my community and my voice. But the one thing that has been most difficult to find is a job. I have faced employment discrimination over and over again, simply for living as my authentic self.
The Texas federal district court’s decision to pause the “Keeping Families Together” program on August 26 has been called into question by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The DHS asserts that Judge J. Campbell Barker’s ruling to freeze the program should be overturned.
Es importante señalar que, aunque todavía se puede presentar una solicitud, si el programa se cierra definitivamente, los solicitantes pueden perder su tarifa de procesamiento de $580.
