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As of late July, more than 90,000 migrants had come to New York City since last spring, and more than 55,000 are still in the city’s care. A right to shelter in a housing crisis
Murad Awawdeh, president and chief executive officer of the New York Immigration Coalition—an umbrella organization that represents more than 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups in the state ...
Season 1 (2009) We Speak NYC previously known as We Are New York (WANY) is an Emmy Award-winning educational television series produced by the NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and The City University of New York in 2009. The 10-episode comedic drama is based on true-to-life stories of immigrants making their way in New York City.
The parade was organized as a show of Puerto Rican pride and is a tradition which not only continues today in the city of New York but, that has also extended to other cities such as Chicago, Illinois and Orlando, Florida. [53] By 1960, the United States census showed that there were well over 600,000 New Yorkers of Puerto Rican birth or parentage.
Immediately after appearing together in public for the first time Friday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took aim at Mayor Adams’ plan to erect a migrant tent camp in her district ...
In January 2017, President Donald Trump enacted a new executive order that would allow undocumented immigrants nationwide to be deported on lesser charges than previously. Over the week of February 6, 2017, six hundred people in 11 states, including 41 people in the New York City area, were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Downtown Flushing is a major commercial and retail area, and the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue at its core is the third-busiest in New ...
Demographics. The New York Tri-State area has a population of 1.6 million Russian-Americans and 600,000 of them live in New York City. [5] There are over 220,000 Russian-speaking Jews living in New York City. [6] Approximately 100,000 Russian Americans in the New York metropolitan area were born in Russia.