The Center for Migration Studies has released A Portrait of Immigrant New Yorkers, a report on the city's immigrant population. New York has long been known as a city of immigrants, and today more than one in three New Yorkers (3.1 million people) are foreign-born. Almost a million (950,000 people, 1 in 9 residents) live in mixed-status households; 267,000 are children.
As election day nears, ICE operations appear to be on the rise. Several attorneys report that several ICE arrests across the Bay Area "reflect increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement." "Bay Area `rapid response' hotlines monitoring immigration arrests have seen an uptick in reports since this weekend, said
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Check out this Catch-22! "Do what a federal court orders and break the law. Ignore what a federal court orders and also break the law. That’s the losing deal that a migrant faced when a federal court told him he had to stay in Oklahoma, then federal prosecutors
LA Taco reports that "[a]nother week of the latest ICE surge in Southern California is passing, and we’re not surprised it didn’t go by without brutality and injuries. In Orange County, ICE operations led to at least two hospital visits; while in Los Angeles, ICE agents