Our newsletter this week reports on the #StateOfOurLives among immigrant communities close to home — from the recent hunger strike among 50 detainees incarcerated north of NYC, to low-wage women of color workers in the nail salon industry. We honor these vibrant, necessary, ongoing local justice struggles. Read More
Our newsletter this week illustrates the incoherence and political confusion of current US immigration policy. Democrats just proposed a bill to remedy immigration court interference from the executive branch, but Biden continues to embrace the anti-immigrant policies of Title 42. Read More
Not all of us know that Ecuadorians compose the largest immigrant community here in central Queens. We offer a story about the history and recent increase in migration from Ecuador, which is also a story about Jackson Heights today. Read More
Today’s newsletter looks at two urgent issues: the lifting of a state eviction moratorium and the resurgent threat of federal ‘public charge’ policies that would deny working-class immigrants access to assistance with food, housing, and health care needs. Read More
Our newsletter looks at the mourning and mobilizing of NYC immigrant workers whose lives are literally on the line in the risky, low-wage business of food delivery and the most recent immigrant-led campaigns to protect essential workers in NY State. Read More
In this issue, we offer you a local story of a very special museum exhibition in Queens, and the statewide campaign to end ICE detention of immigrants, in the context of the 20th-century criminalization of immigrants of color in the US. Read More
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