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Festival organizer Mohammad Rashid promoting next weekend's Interfaith Harmony and World Peace Fair & Festival to be held at PS 145 in Jackson Heights. more>
The mayor's attack on parents' low level or lack of education didn't go unnoticed. "It's an insult to our communities, and to the majority of parents with children in public schools," said Ken Cohen, the regional director of the NAACP. more>
To continue with the saga of contradictory messages on the issue of immigration, it turns out Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants to better its image among the immigrant population of Chicago, Illinois, while in nearby Detroit, Michigan, ICE appears to be focused on intimidating families in the vicinity of a school, going against its own guidelines not to conduct immigration operatives near schools or houses of worship. more>
Last week at a public forum sponsored by Univision, Karen Maldonado, a student, with a deportation order in her hand, asked Obama if it was true they were not deporting students, because she and other students keep on getting letters with the bad news. more>
QueensLatino and the non-profit New America Media joined forces to follow the stories of three immigrant families that lost their homes during the foreclosure crisis. more>
What is the way forward for the struggle for immigrants' rights? The most important theme to sound is that justice and fairness demand a path to citizenship for undocumented workers. To turn our back on them now, when times are bad, is a gross violation of common decency. more>
When discussing issues important to Latinos in New York one topic that often gets overlooked is "redistricting." Redistricting is the process being used to redraw lines and physical boundaries of electoral districts within a state. Unfortunately, this is a highly politicized and polarizing topic and some elected leaders prefer to keep the community "in the dark" about the subject. more>
Willets Point locals allege that a recent NYPD raid – 200 policemen and 50 cars – is part of the city's tactics to clear the area for a $300 million redevelopment plan. more>
Various Republican legislators expressed their support for altering the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, so that U.S.-born children of undocumented parents would not be able to obtain citizenship. more>