How African Americans, and African Immigrants, Are Fighting Against Undercounts
It's Census Day. The 2020 census will have a significant impact on the distribution of political, and economic, resources for years to come. But the rollout of the census has been mired in controversy...
View ArticleImmigrants Helping Immigrants At Two COVID-19 Testing Sites In New York City
Four days a week, Ilon Rincon Portas suits up for work at 7 a.m. inside a white tent at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Southeast Queens. The doctor, who immigrated from Venezuela, carefully puts on a...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Cases Surge on Long Island, Hitting Hispanic Communities Hard
As COVID-19 cases rise on Long Island, Hispanic communities appear to be especially hard hit.
View ArticleICE Quietly Releases Hundreds of Local Immigrants As COVID-19 Tears Through...
At the Hudson, Essex and Bergen County jails in New Jersey, where the majority of immigrants picked up by ICE in the New York City region end up, 20 percent of immigrant detainees have been released...
View ArticleNew York City Sets Aside 5,000 More Hotel Rooms To Quarantine Residents
New York City is setting aside 5,000 more hotel rooms for people exposed to the coronavirus. Six thousand rooms were already set aside for healthcare workers and homeless people. Now, those in...
View ArticleFrom Piano to Dreamer: The Inspiring Story of Tereza Lee
Not many teenage pianists who win a contest to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra go on to inspire a major social and political movement. But Tereza Lee, now 37 and a New York–based performer,...
View ArticleNew Jersey Assemblyman Faces The Music After Violin Controversy
Protestors from the immigrant group Wind of the Spirit gathered outside the home of a New Jersey assemblyman Tuesday, serenading him with voices and a violin instead of shouting chants. The reason?...
View ArticleStories of the Overlooked
Souvankham Thammavongsa, poet and O. Henry Prize-winning author of How to Pronounce Knife: Stories (Little, Brown and Company, 2020), talks about her stories set in the world of refugees and immigrants...
View ArticleUndocumented Immigrants Out Of Work During Pandemic Get Desperately-Needed...
A $20 million gift from the Open Society Foundations to New York City took a while to set up , but it's now expected to be given out in full by the end of July to undocumented immigrants who lost their...
View ArticleLawyers Say Immigrants At Bergen County Jail Have No Air Conditioning
Lawyers from three public defender agencies who represent ICE detainees from New York say their clients have complained for days about broken air conditioning at the Bergen County Jail, leading to...
View ArticleState-Funded Lawyers Help to Halt Deportations of New Jersey Immigrants,...
A new report shows that a state-funded program that provides lawyers for detained New Jersey immigrants is succeeding in preventing deportations.Those held due to immigration violations don’t get...
View Article#4274: “Fire In My Mouth” by Julia Wolfe
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe talks us through her riveting and intense work, "Fire In My Mouth," inspired by the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and written for the New York...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Completing the Census During a Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has added major hurdles to the federal government’s process of accurately completing the 2020 Census count, a process that arguably needs more time given the challenging...
View ArticleIt's Census Crunch Time
Time is running out to fill out the census. Rossana Rosado, New York State Secretary of State, talks about how New York State's response rate is and what the state is doing to try to increase...
View ArticleOut-of-Work Street Vendors Found Income By Feeding Food Insecure New Yorkers
With the pandemic idling many immigrants who normally make a living selling street food—and with food insecurity intensifying throughout the city—one program, ending this week, tackled both problems at...
View ArticleImmigration Arrest Tactics Come Under Scrutiny for Mimicking NYPD
Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it nabbed 54 people in the New York metro area during the first week of October, most of whom had been arrested by local law enforcement and then released. But...
View ArticleWhat’s Going On In Your Immigrant Family's Group Chat?
This past summer, as protests were erupting across the U.S. in response to George Floyd's death, racism and police brutality, producer Afi Yellow-Duke and I started talking about the conversations she...
View ArticleWith One Word by Kamala Harris, The 'Chitthi Brigade' Is Born
In August, when Kamala Harris accepted her nomination to be Joe Biden's running mate, she briefly turned to Tamil to describe the various people who hold her up in life."Family," she said," is my...
View ArticleNew DACA Ruling Has Undocumented Immigrants Hopeful Biden Will Expand Program
Undocumented immigrants in New York believe a Brooklyn federal judge’s ruling on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (known as DACA) will expand the Obama-era program that President Donald Trump has...
View ArticleICE Detention Issues in Three NJ Counties
Matt Katz, WNYC reporter, talks about his recent reporting on immigration detention centers in New Jersey: a COVID outbreak at the Elizabeth Detention Center, ICE detainees on hunger strike in...
View ArticleTrump Administration Allows Young Immigrants to Apply for DACA Protections...
For the first time since 2017, immigrants can apply for the DACA program that provides work authorization and protection from deportation.Read more at Gothamist.
View ArticleLiberian Immigrants Get Relief in Biden's Executive Orders
Immigrants from Liberia lost their work authorization this month even though they still had temporary status. A large number of them live on Staten Island. David Dann, who runs the group Liberians in...
View ArticleImmigrants From Seven Countries Call In About Biden
We asked immigrants to call in and recommend some policy positions they hope Biden takes with respect to their countries of origin.On Today's Show:Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post columnist, host of...
View ArticleNational Politics; Immigrants and the NYS Budget; Global Corporate Minimum...
Coming up on today's show: Anu Joshi, vice president of policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, talks about the Fund for Excluded Workers and other components in the newly passed state budget...
View ArticleAir Conditioning Meets The Census Results and 89 Missing New Yorkers
Every 10 years, we count up the people in each state to determine how much representative power they should have. Well, the 2020 Census has been tallied. What does it mean for our politics?On Today's...
View ArticleHudson Becomes Second N.J. County To Consider Rejecting ICE Detainees
Leaders in Hudson County, N.J., are considering cancelling their contract to jail federal immigration detainees. It's a sudden reversal from November, when Democratic county leaders reversed a prior...
View ArticleUnderreported Census Headline: Puerto Rico Suffers The Biggest Population Loss
The overall US population grew by about 7 percent over the past 10 years. So why has Puerto Rico's population dropped by 11 percent?On Today's Show:Alana Casanova-Burgess, host of WNYC and Futuro...
View ArticleThreading the Needle: An Apparel Company Owner Hopes to Bring Back NYC's...
Lisa Sun, a women's online apparel company owner, bought a factory in the Garment District with a manufacturer. The district was struggling to rebound long before the pandemic but she sees...
View Article[Unedited] Luis Alberto Urrea with Krista Tippett
The wonderful writer Luis Alberto Urrea says that a deep truth of our time is that “we miss each other.” He is singularly wise about the deep meaning and the problem of borders. The Mexican-American...
View ArticleStorm Update; National Politics; End of Expanded Unemployment; Weather...
On today's show:Flash flooding caused by remnants of Hurricane Ida led to at least nine deaths, major blackouts, and transit disruptions around the region. Michael Hill, host of WNYC's Morning Edition,...
View ArticleWill NYC Expand Voting Rights To Some Immigrants?
New York City lawmakers are considering a bill that would give legal permanent residents the right to register to vote in municipal elections only, for offices like mayor and city council. Supporters...
View Article#4274: “Fire In My Mouth” by Julia Wolfe
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe talks us through her riveting and intense work, "Fire In My Mouth," inspired by the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and written for the New York...
View ArticleFossil Fuels in the EU; Noncitizen Voting in NYC; Moving Abroad; SCOTUS Update
Coming up on today's show:Bill McKibben, educator, environmentalist, and co-founder of 350.org, and author of several books including Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (Henry Holt...
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View ArticleWhen You Are Your Parents' Retirement Plan
Mike Dang, business desk editor at The New York Times, talks about his recent story on the added financial burden faced by the children of East Asian immigrants and others who are expected to support...
View ArticleNew York and Title 42; Remembering Dooce; Affordable Mental Healthcare in...
Coming up on today's show:Murad Awawdeh, executive director at the New York Immigration Coalition, discusses how the city is responding to migrants making their way here, the dispute with the northern...
View ArticleBrooklyn Boro Pres Reynoso on Planning for Migrants
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso talks about the use of school gyms in Brooklyn to house migrants and his proposal to involve the public and private sectors in a response to the crisis.
View Article‘Breaking Barriers’: Lumina education special
In this hourlong, education-focused special, The World delves into the challenges immigrants face in accessing higher education, looking at issues such as language, borders and costs. US employers who...
View ArticleBiden vs. The Smugglers’ PR Machine And Other Migrant Issues Explained
The complexities of US immigration policy mean that messaging around safety and border security plays a very real role in the asylum system's ability to function.On Today's Show:Julia Preston,...
View ArticleWhen the Police Only Speak English
Advocates recently sued the Nassau County Police Department over its treatment of non-English speaking people. Elise de Castillo, executive director of CARECEN, and Meena Roldán Oberdick, attorney at...
View ArticleSenator Gillibrand: Let Asylum Seekers Come And Work But Vet Their Claims...
On today's show:U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) discusses her actions around the big influx of asylum seekers in New York and other cities, the prospect of a government shutdown at the end of...
View ArticleIf Poland Can Welcome A Million Migrants With Open Arms, What About Us?
As the United States copes with new migrants and refugees from South and Central America, we look at how refugees from the war in Ukraine are being received around the world.On Today's Show:David...
View ArticleCan a multinational intervention lead to peace to Haiti?
The United Nations National Security Council has approved the dispatch of a multinational armed force led by Kenya to the beleaguered nation of Haiti, to help combat violent gangs. It's the first time...
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