immigration

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.

The state announced $4.38 million specifically geared towards finding high-skilled jobs for immigrants.

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.

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..

Syracuse-area immigrants and their allies are joining a nationwide effort calling on a federal pathway to citizenship and other relief for undocumented…

A Cornell University migration and human rights law professor says it appears that President Trump’s intention to more severely restrict immigration to…

Severe restrictions on people crossing our borders could present a problem for Central New York’s farmers. The New York Farm Bureau is asking for state…

Federal immigration officials are increasing pressure on New York to overturn the state’s Green Light Law. Governor Cuomo passed the measure to protect…

Syracuse-area community advocates say the detention of an undocumented Syracuse man for seven months without a court hearing points to serious flaws in…

More than 50 Syracuse community members joined others across the nation Friday to protest the refugee camps along the Mexico-United States border.“Close…