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JHISN Newsletter 12/20/2025

Posted on December 20, 2025 by - News, Newsletter

December confronts us with the growing presence of ICE in our neighborhoods. Our newsletter this month is devoted to citywide and community-based organizing to defend against the federal government’s paramilitary deportation operations. And we report on the first, though likely not the last, breach of masked federal agents with assault weapons on our streets in Jackson Heights on December 4. “We keep us safe,” says Black Lives Matter. May we keep safe together.   Read More

JHISN Newsletter 11/22/2025

Posted on November 22, 2025 by - News, Newsletter

We report first on ICE’s recent escalation of attacks here in Queens, and next, on your responses to our reader survey on how to prepare for ICE invasions in our own neighborhood. We conclude with actions you can take, and trainings and groups you can join, to collectively defend our communities. Please join us in learning what solidarity will look like in our immigrant-led New York City.  Read More

JHISN Newsletter 10/25/2025

Posted on October 25, 2025 by - News, Newsletter

We look more closely at the role of citizen immigrants, our own Jackson Heights-based organization DRUM Beats, and immigrant politics more broadly in Zohran Mamdani’s historic campaign for NYC mayor. And we give an update on the precarious situation affecting members of our Nepali community in Queens who have had their Temporary Protective Status terminated by the Trump regime—part of a larger campaign to rip away the legal status of hundreds of thousands of TPS holders nationwide.  Read More

JHISN Newsletter 09/21/2025

Posted on September 21, 2025 by - News, Newsletter

Our newsletter reports on the government’s unprecedented attack on immigrant children, including the arrest of students and young neighbors here in Queens. And we offer a wide-ranging political analysis of the current deportation machine, accompanied by a locally-focused survey for our readers about what you hope to do as ICE violence against immigrants closes in.
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JHISN Newsletter 08/23/2025

Posted on August 23, 2025 by - News, Newsletter

This week, we bring you stories of the organized resistance of everyday people in Los Angeles to ICE raids and federal government terrorizing of immigrants, with an eye towards the near future of resistance we might organize here in Queens. We also take a deeper dive into Documented, an ambitious, vibrant NYC digital media organization bringing community journalism (in multiple languages) to immigrant issues and audiences.  Read More

JHISN Newsletter 07/26/2025

Posted on July 26, 2025 by - News, Newsletter

Today’s issue takes on systematic wage theft—disproportionately experienced by immigrant workers—while highlighting how common it is in our own neighborhood. The newsletter also returns to the urgent issue of the Trump regime’s attempts to cancel Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of legal immigrant US residents, including many in the Nepali community here in Queens.   Read More