Tag Archive | "Immigration"
Religious leaders work for immigration reform
By Jeremy B. White Bishop Orlando Findlayter sees his Brooklyn church as more than a place of worship. In 2001, he launched a coalition of Caribbean clergy to advocate for congregants that had been affected in the September 11, 2001 attacks. This summer, he focused on immigration reform.
Continue reading...Classical Latin America
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Anyone who believes that classical music is the sole province of old Europe, think again. Or better yet, just listen to Polly Ferman play the piano. Ferman, 65, grew up a precocious pianist in Uruguay. She started playing at age three, gave her first concert when she was seven, and by 11 had played with a [...]
Continue reading...Writing for those he left behind
Friday, October 30, 2009
For all the hand-wringing about the financial woes of the journalism industry, a free press remains a sacrosanct component of American democracy. While American journalists are worrying about losing their jobs, some foreign journalists have much more at stake when they go to report a story. Habtamu Dugo has lived in New York with asylee status [...]
Continue reading...Camping out for earthquake victims
Saturday, October 17, 2009
By Jeremy B. White A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Italy’s Abruzzi region in the early hours of April 6, 2009, killing nearly 300 people and leaving over 48,000 homeless. Joe Leone, an Italian-American, quickly raised about $25,000 and traveled to the town of L’Aquila, where he distributed clothing, toiletries and flashlights to the victims.
Continue reading...Pick your style and stick to it
Monday, October 12, 2009
Nestled in the heart of Chinatown, next to a candy store with plastic containers of prawn roles and dried tuna cubes, stands an unusual specialty shop. Its walls are lined with a wide variety of that quintessentially Chinese utensil: chopsticks. Yunhong Chopstick Shop, which opened its doors about a year ago, is the first store specializing [...]
Continue reading...In search of papers, immigrants are easy victims
Monday, October 5, 2009
By Jeremy B. White When Carmen Duarte’s son Ramon was arrested in 2004 his status as a legal permanent resident meant that the charges – drug possession and intent to sell – placed him in deportation proceedings. Carmen knew she needed a lawyer. Unable to keep up with payments, she was evicted from the Queens apartment she had lived in for 18 years. Ramon remained in prison.
Continue reading...Immigration Services chief stops by
Monday, October 5, 2009
Alejandro Mayorkas, the new director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), held an informal media session at New York USCIS headquarters on Thursday. Present were various representatives of ethnic media, including Sing Tao and El Diario, a professor from the CUNY Citizenship and Immigration Project and an AP reporter, among others. The USCIS building [...]
Continue reading...Healthcare and the coming immigration battle
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
“You lie!” When Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) leaped to his feet to question the veracity of President Obama’s claim that undocumented immigrants would not receive access to healthcare, he offered what many are calling a preview of how the two issues could become inextricably linked. Just as some of the most contentious rhetoric surrounding the healthcare debate [...]
Continue reading...Immigrant advocates hopeful about new city jails commissioner
Thursday, September 24, 2009
By Jeremy B. White Jose Tirso is one of the more than 13,000 foreign born inmates at Rikers Island who have been swept up in immigration dragnets over the past five years. The issue of federal immigration agents targeting foreign-born inmates at Rikers has become a top priority for immigrant advocacy groups.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
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