Love to see this. Across sectors, Council Member Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎 has often advocated to support workers on strike for better contracts. Her solidarity for A Better NYLAG is no different. #ABNStrike #NYLAGonStrike #UnitedWeStrike

Public service legal workers from A Better NYLAG went on strike this week to demand better working conditions for themselves and their clients. High turnover and case loads of over 100 clients at a time are leaving poor and working-class people without consistent representation.

Worrying (but not particularly surprising) news that the Biden administration is considering reopening the Dilley family detention center to process families under the new asylum ban. I've got one word for them: unacceptable. nytimes.com/2023/03/06/us/…

The Biden administration is reportedly considering reinstating family detention. But as a candidate, Biden called for children to be “released with their parents.” “Families belong together,” he tweets here in 2020. Which is it, President Donald J. Trump? #EndFamilyDetention #FreeThemAll

It’s official: we have a contract! We bargained, we marched, we organized, and together we WON. Thank you to everyone who supported us at A Better NYLAG along the way. ALAA - UAW 2325 ✊🏽

"In this transitional political moment, the president has the chance to, once and for all, meaningfully distance himself from the hateful, unlawful policies of his predecessor by making bold moves on immigration." wbur.org/cognoscenti/20…

The Biden administration's pivot back to the Trumpian policies is complete. These new asylum restrictions mirrors in large part one of the Trump administration's harshest anti-asylum policies, the 2019 asylum transit ban—which two separate federal courts struck down as unlawful.

Court officers escorted the grand jury foreman to the room reserved for high-ranking officers, and “admonished” him for seeking clarification from the prosecutor — adding “asking such questions on the record could get them into trouble” and “the matter ‘would go all the way up.’

Tomorrow morning, one million N95 masks will be made available at state facilities. 400,000 will be distributed to New Yorkers at MTA stations, Port Authority Bus Terminal, @NYStateParks & @Javitscenter. 600,000 will be available from NYS Div. of Homeland Security & Emergency Services stockpiles for local governments to pick up.

The advice is simple: get indoors, filter the air. But not everyone can get indoors and once they are, only so many people have air filters. I spoke to Marshall Burke about indoor air quality heatmap.news/when-theres-sm…

🎉BREAKING: NYS legislature passes Fair Courts for Immigrant New Yorkers! This bill ensures immigrant NYers facing criminal charges are accurately informed of possible impacts of a plea, alerted to get advice they’re entitled to, and have a remedy when those rights are violated.

Impacted by the flood? Please email 📧 [email protected] with any locations that were impacted, including cross streets, building #’s, photos, etc. As they are actively compiling a list and working with DEP to address areas of major concern!

I’m excited that, after years of work (including FOIA litigation to obtain new info about ICE arrest practices), Inventing Deportation Arrests is out in the world. I’m extremely grateful to the incredible Michigan Law Review team and the scholars and advocates who generously gave

More migrants in NYC are coming from Asia, Africa, and Europe. Why that's happening, what it means, and more in my latest for Gothamist WNYC 🎙, a data analysis of national immigration court filings (c/o TRAC Reports). gothamist.com/news/african-a…

Immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico are among workers missing in Baltimore bridge tragedy. “All of them came to the city for a better life, he said — not necessarily for themselves, but for the loved ones they left behind …” thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tran…

The official, accept no substitutes, American Immigration Council analysis of Biden's border EO/reg. What it does; what limitations it's likely to face; what the admin hopes it will do and why we're skeptical. americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/ameri…

1/ For the Atlantic's September cover story, I took 3 trips to the Darien Gap to try to understand the forces driving people there: instability, policy failures, and smuggling orgs that are eager to take advantage. lynsey addario captured it all. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

A quick sampling of Tim Walz tweets on immigration. ❌ Trump’s Family Separation policy ❌ Diverting military funds for Border Wall ✅ Pathway to citizenship for Dreamers ✅ Recognizing enormous economic and labor contributions from immigrants

BREAKING: New York has passed #Prop1! New Yorkers used their vote to permanently protect abortion statewide, and showed up for LGBTQ, immigrant, and disabled New Yorkers by approving the most progressive and comprehensive state Equal Rights Amendment in the country.