The state is putting up more than $7 million to pay for legal representation for unaccompanied children in immigration court after the Trump administration ended its contract with legal services providers, leaving 1,400 children in New York to represent themselves in deportation cases, officials announced on Wednesday.
Read MoreAs federal immigration officers have been spotted with increasing frequency in Queens, local officials on Monday told their constituents to prepare themselves in the event that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempt to arrest them or their neighbors.
Read MoreNew York State can’t tell Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to take off their masks, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
Read MoreOnly a single member of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus has not signed on to a popular letter calling on Democratic leadership to push for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read MoreMore than a dozen Queens lawmakers signed on to a letter with around 100 other elected officials calling on federal Democrats to push for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read MoreA Queens representative proposed legislation that would give migrants the option to attend legally-mandated court appearances virtually and potentially avoid arrest by federal immigration officers. But the bill faces an uphill climb in the conservative legislature.
Read MoreFederal immigration agents have conducted thousands of unconstitutional stops and arrests on New Yorkers over the last year, targeting people based solely on race and without any probable cause, a new class action lawsuit claims.
Read MoreTwo airline pilots were killed and dozens of passengers were injured after a plane crashed into a firetruck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night.
Read MoreThe number of times Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents asked the Department of Correction to give them a heads up before a detainee’s release so that they could make an arrest more than doubled during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, compared to the year prior.
Read MoreTwo of Queens’ longest-serving members of Congress sharply criticized the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement on Thursday, but stopped short of joining fellow Democrats calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul on Friday said that she would propose legislation that would prevent local police in New York from partnering with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Read MoreThe City Council on Thursday overrode a mayoral veto of a bill that would explicitly bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from operating an office on any land owned by the city’s Department of Correction, including Rikers Island.
Read MoreTwo Queens representatives took heat this week for votes that appeared to support Immigration Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, which has come under fire after ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota in the past month.
Read MoreQueens locals and elected officials rallied in Western Queens over the weekend to protest the federal detention of a 6-year-old and his father as immigration agents were spotted in two separate Queens neighborhoods.
Read MoreHeavily armed federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security were spotted in Jackson Heights on Thursday morning, and reportedly detained a woman who recently moved into the neighborhood before being berated by locals.
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