Two Haitian Brothers: A TPS Story
Two Haitian brothers, graduate students in Brooklyn, discuss what the withdrawal of TPS status would mean for them.
Two Haitian brothers, graduate students in Brooklyn, discuss what the withdrawal of TPS status would mean for them.
NYC Health and Hospitals’ CEO addressed the community and ethnic media at a Newsmakers briefing on Sept. 27.
After President Obama carried out nearly 3 million deportations, with Trump’s arrival in the White House activists fear that immigrants will be further criminalized, El Diario/La Prensa reports.
For immigration advocates, sequestration had one silver lining: the release of hundreds of immigrants in detention centers. But budget cuts also mean longer waiting lists for visas, longer lines at the border and longer backlogs for immigration court cases, reports ImmigraNation.
Today from the ethnic and community press we have a chilling report on human trafficking, an update on the Jewish Daily Forward’s investigation into a federal program that helps non-profits prepare for terror attacks, and an immigrants’ art exhibit in Queens.
Today we have three updates on stories we have linked to: a condemnation of the circumcision practice known as “oral-genital suction”; a federal response on a security program that has been criticized as a “Jewish earmark”; and the delicious international ubiquity of Maggi sauce.
Although President Barack Obama has withdrawn funding for the controversial Section 287 (g) program, concerns still remain over the government’s treatment of immigrants.
After an article by the Jewish Daily Forward exposed a federal program that helps non-profits prepare for terror attacks as a “Jewish earmark,” the grant program faces deep cuts and changes to its procedures.