All posts tagged "Humanmigration"

NEW YORK — In eastern Queens and suburban Long Island, a test of the potency of immigration as a political tool is playing out in a special congressional race that may offer lessons for both parties in the nationwide November general election. Any takeaways may be limited to the particulars of a unique race: a battle between a savvy and well-known centrist Democrat and a novice Republican nominee who has been evasive on the issues but has increasingly embraced Donald Trump. The shadow of George Santos, the unpopular truth-indifferent Republican who previously held the seat, hangs over the race......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation late Sunday night that would have made undocumented seniors eligible for California’s cash assistance program. The bill, authored by Assemblyman Juan Carrillo, D-Palmdale, would have provided $1,100 to $1,900 per month to undocumented individuals who are blind, disabled or older than 65. Currently, California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) is limited to people with eligible immigration status. The measure overwhelmingly passed the Legislature last month. In his veto message, Newsom cited the proposed expansion’s $180 mi......

NEW YORK — A majority of New Yorkers say the U.S. should live out welcoming words etched on the Statue of Liberty, but almost a third say the country does not need to continue welcoming any new immigrants, according to a new poll released as the state struggles with the strain of the asylum-seeker crisis. In the statewide Siena College survey, published Tuesday, the Statue of Liberty exhortation — “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” — received support from 69% of voters, with 21% opposed. And a broad, bipartisan majority of New Yorkers said assimilatin......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Diego de Jesús Delgado Meléndez traveled thousands of miles from his home in Venezuela and trekked some of the world’s most dangerous terrain in search of a way to provide for his 11 children. And yet, when he finally entered the U.S., after 85 days and 3 deportations, his journey hadn’t finished. Delgado Meléndez, 40, is among the 36 migrants who arrived in Sacramento on two Florida chartered flights nearly two months ago. After traveling through Central and South America, they found themselves flown to Sacramento as political pawns in the dispute over immigration policy.......

CHICAGO — The first 75 or so arrivals stepped out of buses at Union Station clutching clear plastic bags that held few possessions. This was almost a year ago. Each had been to the United States-Mexico border with the hope of immigrating to this country. Once there, they were put on buses bound for the self-styled sanctuary city of Chicago. Many did not speak English. Some spoke English, but felt more comfortable speakingSpanish. Most came from Venezuela and Nicaragua and Cuba. They were mothers and children and fathers and single men and single women, and they shared two things in common: The......

YEADON, Pa. — For two Thanksgivings now, Karen Serrano Roberts has been missing from her family’s dinner table in Yeadon. It’s beginning to look like this will be a second Christmas away from home, too. Karen Roberts, a Mexican national who has lived in the United States for most of her life, has been stranded in Mexico for the last 18 months, separated from her U.S. born husband and five children due to her immigration status. Born in Puebla, Mexico, in 1991, Roberts, 31, was brought to the States when she was 4 without legal documents, she said. For part of that trip, she said, “I was in the......