New York City is currently spending more money on housing and services per migrant than it did last summer, despite Mayor Eric Adams’ projections showing the overall toll of the crisis is falling thanks to reductions in the number of asylum seekers in municipal care. Molly Wasow Park, Commissioner of Social Services (DSS) of the … Read more
The House of Representatives of the United States Congress approved a new bill that would allow federal authorities to detain undocumented migrants who have a history of theft in the country. This initiative received considerable support, with 251 votes in favor and 179 against. Most of the votes in favor came from members of the … Read more
%20DNT%20Randalls%20Island%20Shelter%20Scuffle_128977442_1037 "New York City Imposes Curfew in Randall’s Island Migrant Shelter, Largest in City to Have Curfew – Effective March 20")
Occupants of the Randall’s Island migrant shelter will be notified today about the curfew that will go into effect in two weeks. This will become the largest shelter to have a curfew imposed by the city and the most recent to have this measure. Another 186 shelters have a curfew. Currently, about three thousand people … Read more
In order to discuss the new shelter for asylum seekers that the Mayor’s Office has set up in a building located at 130 Third Street in Gowanus Brooklyn, residents of the area held a community meeting this Monday. The industrial building will be converted into a hostel to house up to 400 single men and … Read more
“Ecuadorians are proud of their police, their armed forces and their president too.” This is how the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, was received with applause during his visit to NY. Hundreds of people with small tricolor flags listened attentively to the president, especially when he referred to the request for TPS for Ecuadorians living … Read more
Vice Mayor Anne Williams-Isom shared details this Sunday about the prepaid cards that the Administration plans to give to asylum seekers so they can buy food. He clarified that it will not be for all immigrants and that they will start with 500 families through a pilot plan. “Actually I agree, but let them give … Read more
José Antonio Ibarra, the Venezuelan accused of killing a female nursing student from Georgia, entered the United States illegally in 2022 and had previously been arrested in New York, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) on Sunday. ). Ibarra, 26 years old, had been found on September 8, 2022 by ICE, after … Read more
“They should take us out and put us in a new building, not for immigrants.” This is the reaction of a Harlem resident, who did not want to give her name, following a rumor that a building on the corner of 130th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd could be converted into a shelter … Read more
The world in 2024 is characterized by “increasing geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty.” This is the conclusion reached by Christoph Heusgenthe chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), in the news exhibition security for the Conference, which opens its doors today, Friday (16/02/2023) in the Bavarian capital and is being organized this year for the … Read more
France to end birthright citizenship on island under state control to curb immigration Paris: French government to implement constitutional amendment to abolish birthright citizenship in Mayotte, France’s foreign department. Mayotte is a region consisting of two islands on the African mainland between Madagascar. When the Comoros Islands declared independence in 1973, Mayotte decided to stay … Read more