Recent date from New Jersey and California once again confirm what researchers have found repeatedly over the past 100 years: immigrants are less likely than the native born to be in prison, and high rates of immigration are not associated with higher rates of crime. more>

“There will be no comprehensive reform proposal approved by the U.S. Congress during this session – or any session in the near future – because the immigration restrictionists have seized the debate,” said Tom Barry, policy director for the International Relations Center (IRC). more>

The use of the National Crime Information Center Database by the New York Police Department to find out the immigration status of people they question has raised alarm bells for advocates. The City Council Committee on Immigration is investigating if this practice violates city policy. more>

Immigrant leaders and more than 100 immigrant community members expressed outrage at the poor quality of care experienced by limited English-speaking patients at many of New York’s private hospitals at a demonstration in front of the Greater New York Hospital Association held on April 21. more>

The 1996 immigration laws spawned millions of civilian casualties on American soil – whole classes of people detained, deported, and stripped of their rights in the creation of an apartheid state. more>

On the last day before Caribbean teachers were expected to be deported home, making a serious dent in Brooklyn schools that serve the Caribbean community, the U.S. government granted waivers to the anxious educators. more>

Alarming gaps between ethnic groups in accessing health care have prompted health administrators to devise unusual means of reaching out to Black and Caribbean communities in New York. more>

Though chess is thought of as a cerebral game, the room is filled with noisy exclamations and schoolyard banter. Losers are called "son," by their triumphant opponents. more>

I sat quietly at the press table in the front of the City Council chamber, waiting for the meeting to begin. Instead, all hell broke loose. When it was finally over, it dawned on me that not only had I taken the last photo of Councilmember Davis alive, I stood next to the man who killed him while doing so! more>

Africans weary of Americans bearing gifts more>

While seeming to shield immigrant residents from wrongful questioning, Bloomberg's Executive Order 34 reverses several crucial provisions, including the current prohibition of the Police Department on sharing with the federal government non-criminal confidential information about New Yorkers. more>

Ever since the deadly May 16th police raid of Alberta Spruill’s Harlem apartment—the result of a warrant to search the mistakenly identified apartment—Harlemites have taken to the streets expressing their outrage. Throughout the city, people of all races share their fury. City council members are listening. more>

If it were only about Miguel Malo, it would be bad enough. The most troubling thing is, it’s about much more: the first amendment rights of blacks, Latinos and other students of color at the City University of New York (CUNY). more>

The whereabouts of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction have suddenly taken a back seat to the question of which avaricious conglomerates will land lucrative contracts to rebuild the Iraqi infrastructure. more>