Members of Staten Island’s Liberian community in the Deferred Enforced Departure program explore their options as the protected status comes to an end, reports NY City Lens.

Pro-immigrant advocates pushing for driver’s licenses for undocumented people got a boost by a report from Comptroller Scott Stringer revealing that such a bill would benefit the New York economy, El Diario La Prensa reports.

Hundreds of TPS beneficiaries, many of them from Long Island and New York, walked the streets of Washington to demand a permanent solution to their status, Noticia Long Island reports.

Due to the massive backlog of immigration cases in courts, the state, along with Catholic Charities, has launched an online campaign aiming to recruit volunteer lawyers to offer legal services to low-income immigrants, El Diario La Prensa reports.

As a new protest against family separation took place in Huntington Station, some note that those attending are mostly U.S.-born citizens and not immigrants, who are afraid to be seen in such places, Noticia Long Island reports.

The Korea Daily talks with Jennifer Kim, co-director of the Immigrant Justice Project.

Following the brutal gang-related murder at a subway station, a group called “The Latinos for ICE Coalition” was formed, asking for ICE raids in Queens, El Correo NY reports.

Community groups fear that plans to add a chip to the popular IDNYC to allow it to be used for payments could put some immigrants at risk, El Diario La Prensa reports.

The new, Gender-Based Anti-Harassment Unit of the NYC Commission on Human Rights is fighting sexual abuse cases and providing much-needed help for immigrant domestic workers, El Diario La Prensa reports.

Minnesota’s new Somali-American representative, Ilhan Omar, addressed the Yemeni American Merchants Assn. Feb. 2, reports Bklyner.

Experts say the harshness of the immigrant experience contributes to high alcoholism rates in the Mexican community, El Diario La Prensa reports.

Long Island community leaders assess the positive impact the approval of the New York State DREAM Act will have on thousands of immigrant students and also the local economy, Noticia Long Island reports.

ICE agents have made numerous arrests with civil warrants in NYS criminal court, and in some cases court officers assisted, reports Documented. A NYS bill would restrict the ability of ICE to make arrests with administrative rather than judicial warrants, Documented further reports.

At an editorial meeting with El Diario La Prensa, Melissa Mark-Viverito assessed the impact of her work on New York Hispanic neighborhoods as Council speaker, and vowed to use her public advocate bid to contest the power of “white men” in the city.

Long Island Wins reports that while ICE will no longer relocate to the Nassau University Medical Center, the decision came with a downside.