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Can ICE Make Arrests at New York Courts?
Increased ICE arrests in immigration court have left many immigrant New Yorkers feeling fearful of attending other legal proceedings. But, if you’re summoned to respond to a traffic ticket or to resolve an issue in family court, know that there is a law in place that keeps ICE agents away from these areas. Many people,…
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Mamdani Promised to Protect Immigrant Data. Will it Be Enough?
NYPD officers teamed up with ICE agents to jointly storm a Bronx apartment, guns drawn. A Department of Corrections employee exchanged numerous friendly emails with ICE to coordinate the pickup of an incarcerated person, using the hashtag #teamsendthemback. An immigrant mother asked shelter workers for therapy for her family to help them overcome the trauma…
“No Good Wars”: An Iranian American’s hope—and fear—as the U.S., Israel, and Iran clash
North Bethesda, Maryland, I was on my computer in my apartment lounge, when I heard the voice of a gentle man asked, where are you from? I looked up and shouted Nigeria, where are you from? I shouted back at him. Iran he said. I knew there we had to have a conversation especially with…
Trump’s Iran chaos is not a bug. It’s a feature.
What we are witnessing is not merely another military action or an oil-heist money grab disguised as American compassion for the citizens of a nation under dictatorial rule. It is the ongoing execution of a primeval directive.
Op-Ed: Trump Enters the Forever-War Business
by Emil Amok Guillermo Trump is acting like a venture capitalist with a Do-It-Yourself regime-change kit for Iran. Just add bombs, skip Congress, ignore the Constitution, and hope the startup scales before anyone notices the body count. He thinks this war doesn’t involve Americans. It already does. And it will involve more of us because…
U.S. Embassies issue urgent shelter-in-place orders amid escalating Iran conflict
U.S. embassies across the Middle East have issued security advisories directing Americans to shelter in place following joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran. The advisories, released early February 28, 2026, come as explosions rock Tehran and Iranian retaliation targets regional U.S. bases. Multiple large explosions rocked central Tehran on February 28, 2026, as the U.S. and…
Asian American leaders react to U.S. strikes in Iran
Many Asian American Congress members are condemning the Trump administration’s strikes in Iran. According to NBC News, the U.S. and Israel launched sweeping airstrikes in Iran early Saturday morning. More than 200 people have been killed, and 747 people have been injured. According to The Guardian, reports from Iran indicate that more than 100 of…
Tariff Whiplash and a Rising Black Recession
By Eric Morrissette, Senior Fellow and former Acting Under Secretary of Commerce under the Biden-Harris Administration At the start of this year, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released a report naming what many Black households and business owners were already living: signs of a Black recession. Not a metaphor, but a documented decline in living…
Liberation Day Is Over: The Supreme Court Rules “No Taxation by Decree!”
By LaBode Obanor One year ago, Trump’s Liberation Day was billed as a bold rupture from economic orthodoxy, a declaration of American economic independence, designed to shatter trade imbalances and energize domestic production. In practice, however, it was something else: a massive sweep of unilateral tariff power, rolled out under the guise of emergency authority…
Dehumanization, distraction and White House monkey memes
There was a time, not so long ago, when Donald Trump filed a lawsuit over a joke. The joke? That he resembled an orangutan. On Real Time with Bill Maher, host Bill Maher in 2013 repeatedly juxtaposed Trump’s orange-tinted face and infamously unruly hair with images of an orangutan. The meme was crude, juvenile, and…
Mamdani plays a bold hand on taxes
This week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani shocked New Yorkers with a proposal to cover the city’s looming budget shortfalls by raising city property tax rates by 9.5% and drawing down the city’s fiscal reserves unless the state enacts his proposed tax hikes on corporations and the wealthy. Already, the gap had been whittled down from a…
I Am Jesse Jackson
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was somebody. His passing demands not despair, but reflection and recommitment.
When justice had a megaphone: The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s life in full voice
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon who provided America with a “dress rehearsal” for a Black president.
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