14+ hour, 15+ min ago  (212+ words) Cheikh Fall explains how to write an asylum application in much the same way that he used to teach his high school students to write English essays. The introduction, he says, is for biographical facts: "I was born on this…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1010+ words) Cheikh Fall has spent nearly two decades helping New York immigrants from his home region seek asylum in the United States. Cheikh Fall explains how to write an asylum application in much the same way that he used to teach…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1076+ words) Twenty-two percent of people arrested by ICE in New York state during Trump's second term have left the country voluntarily " up from less than 1 percent under Biden. Six men in yellow jumpsuits filed into a small, windowless room at the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (22+ words) Fossil fuel interests have enlisted prominent former elected officials to make the case that gas is here to stay. New York Focus...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1278+ words) Some climate activists want the mayor to take a stronger stance. He previously said the state's climate law "is not a suggestion. It is a mandate." New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is staying on the sidelines as a fight…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1417+ words) Over the last three months, ICE attorneys in New York state have petitioned to send half of the African asylum seekers who had immigration hearings to Uganda. Modou sat with his lawyer in the quiet hallway of the immigration court…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (765+ words) A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to resume reviewing protection requests from young immigrants who suffered abuse or neglect, finding it violated federal law when it abruptly stopped doing so earlier this year. But the longer-term future…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1723+ words) Zohran Mamdani barely campaigned on climate. What Sunrise saw in Mamdani was a way of "reaching people where they were at," "vila-Dickson said. "Zohran was talking about climate action in a way people could understand, and people were able to…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (822+ words) An 18-year-old New Yorker arrived home Friday after nearly three months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Louisiana following a federal judge's order for his release. ICE had arrested the teenager even though he had a legal status protecting…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (937+ words) The immigration detention center near Buffalo has banned book deliveries, reversing a longstanding policy that allowed detainees to obtain fantasy and romance novels, Sudoku puzzles, word searches, Spanish-language Bibles, and English textbooks, New York Focus has learned." The Buffalo Federal…...