Mayor Eric Adams: My fellow New Yorkers, we are in a crisis situation. New York City now has more than 61,000 people in our shelter system. That includes thousands of New Yorkers experiencing homeles...
Biden is Hoping Small Changes go a Long Way on Immigration
By Michael D. Shear and Miriam Jordan, The New York Times WASHINGTON — Even before the political spectacle of a Republican governor flying migrants to a tiny resort island in Massachusetts, Presiden...
Asylum-Seekers Who Came Months Ago Still Say they Lack Housing, Legal Help Due to Immigration Status
By Gabriel Poblete, THE CITY Olga Rodriguez and her two boys were among the hundreds who went Monday to Riverbank Park in West Harlem to get free food, health coverage, and other kinds of assistance, ...
Immigrant Advocates Slam Texas Gov for Busing Migrants to NYC as Callous Political Ploy
On Friday, August 5, Governor Greg Abbott announced the arrival of the first group of migrants bused to New York City from Texas. The migrants are being dropped off this morning on a green bus at Port...
Biden Administration Ends Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy
By Chris Tobias On Monday, August 8, the Biden administration announced it would wind down the use of a controversial immigration policy known as Remain in Mexico, which denies US entry to migrants se...
New York City Council Holds Special Hearing on Asylum Seekers Bused From Texas
By ABC 7 New York The New York City Council held a special hearing Tuesday to look at conditions in the city’s homeless shelters and the recent influx of asylum seekers that Mayor Eric Adams say are...
Bond Hearings for Asylum Seekers Are Latest Casualty of the Recent Supreme Court Term
By Emma Winger, The Immigration Impact For almost two decades, asylum seekers taken into Border Patrol custody who passed a “credible fear” interview have been eligible to seek release from detent...
Asylum Seeking Families Surge New York City Shelters
By JR Holguin A recent and unexpected surge of migrants that began as early as May has arrived in New York City, causing a swell of people staying in NYC shelters. In a briefing, Mayor Adams addressed...
Supreme Court Permits Biden to Terminate ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program
Juárez Chihuahua Mexico 11-22-2021 – Group of migrants surrender to a border patrol agent after crossing the border between Mexico and the United States (Shutterstock) By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick...
In Blow to Asylum, House Appropriations Committee Greenlights Title 42
Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico 03-20-2021 80 migrants, mostly Hondurans, live in the Good Samaritan shelter in Ciudad Juárez, they were expelled from the United States under title 42. (Shutterstock) By A...