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The Workers' Center of CNY is seeing the chaos and fear first hand as it tries to support hundreds of families who find themselves targeted by the Trump administration's strict immigration enforcement actions.
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WAER News talks with a mother of four who won her asylum case and is applying for residency, but still fears authorities will disregard her status.
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The debate is playing out in state budget negotiations. Gov. Hochul is proposing spending $2.4 billion to help house and feed some of the over 160,000 migrants who have entered New York during the past year.
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Hochul spoke to the media about the new deal and its impact on the state.
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The Republican leaders of two suburban counties have declared states of emergency in an effort to block a plan by New York City’s Democratic mayor to use their communities to house hundreds of international migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
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The state announced $4.38 million specifically geared towards finding high-skilled jobs for immigrants.
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In a letter to the president, the leaders of city of Syracuse and Onondaga County offered the region as a resettling ground for those fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Syracuse-based Refugee and Immigrant Self-Empowerment has been approved to resettle 50 people from Afghanistan by the federal Afghan Placement and Assistance Program. Some could be those who helped the US military as translators or contractors, and are now threatened to be in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Community is being asked to welcome and support them..
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Syracuse-area immigrants and their allies are joining a nationwide effort calling on a federal pathway to citizenship and other relief for undocumented…
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A Cornell University migration and human rights law professor says it appears that President Trump’s intention to more severely restrict immigration to…