Immigrants

Mourners pray for Pope Francis at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

New Yorkers Mourn Pope Francis, the ‘Pope of the People’

April 21, 2025, 3:28 p.m.April 21, 2025, 6:17 p.m.

"Until the last day of his life he was a messenger of hope,” said Bishop Robert Brennan speaking to an afternoon crowd of churchgoers in Brooklyn Monday.

Demonstrators rally outside City Hall against Mayor Eric Adams' executive order allowing ICE and other federal agencies back onto Rikers Island.

Immigration

Judge Temporarily Blocks ICE’s Return to Rikers Island

April 21, 2025, 3:18 p.m.April 21, 2025, 3:18 p.m.

The move came after the City Council sued to stop City Hall’s executive order allowing federal authorities to return to the jail a decade after they departed.

Immigration

ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Apartment. Now He’s in El Salvador’s Mega-Prison.

April 14, 2025, 3:56 p.m.April 15, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Merwil Gutiérrez had no criminal record when ICE agents detained the 19-year-old outside his home. Now his father, Wilmer, is still searching for answers.

A student speaks at a Sunset Park English as a Second Language class about briefly being detained by ICE.

Immigrants

Immigrants Keep Lining Up to Learn English as City Hall Cuts

April 14, 2025, 12:17 p.m.April 17, 2025, 2:28 p.m.

City agency funding has not kept pace with increasing needs since the city’s migrant population grew, new report finds. Providers say they’re struggling to meet the overwhelming demand.

An absentee ballot box sat near the entrance to an early voting site in The Shed at Hudson Yards.

Immigrants

NYC Law Allowing Noncitizens to Vote is Unconstitutional, State’s Highest Court Rules

March 20, 2025, 1:54 p.m.March 20, 2025, 4:29 p.m.

The 6-1 decision comes as New York faces growing pressure to roll back immigrants’ rights, including noncitizen driver's licenses.

Asylum Seeker Operations director Molly Schaeffer, left, and Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs Manuel Castro prepare to testify at a City Council budget hearing.

Immigration

NYC Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Muted on Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda

March 6, 2025, 5:31 p.m.March 19, 2025, 2:56 p.m.

Questioned by Council , Manuel Castro refused to criticize the president and wouldn’t say if City Hall had warned him to stay quiet.

Mayor Eric Adams raises his right hand before testifying in Washington D.C. before a House of Representatives committee about sanctuary city laws.

Congress

Mayor Adams Mostly Spared Republican Wrath at House Hearing on Sanctuary Laws

March 5, 2025, 1:52 p.m.March 5, 2025, 3:33 p.m.

Adams, who has been hesitant to criticize President Donald Trump, took the most fire from Democrats, who questioned him about his federal corruption case.

Immigration officers arrested people in The Bronx during an early-morning raid.

Incarceration

One Hundred NYC Immigrants Arrested in Week One of Trump ICE Raids

Feb. 5, 2025, 6:40 p.m.Feb. 6, 2025, 9:05 a.m.

Little is known about where many of those arrested are being held, and immigration lawyers tell THE CITY they have had difficulty locating and ing those detained.

Mayor Eric Adams speaks at City Hall about working with faith leaders to house migrants, June 5, 2023.

Religion

Faith-Based Immigrant Helpers ‘Unclear’ and Uninspired After Meeting With Mayor

Jan. 16, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 17, 2025, 2:26 p.m.

Two New Yorkers, President-elect Donald Trump and Mayor Eric Adams, have local clergy questioning what ‘sanctuary’ will mean in the future.

Jehinzo Gonzalez and Breymi Amador leave with their children the Floyd Bennett migrant shelter after getting an eviction notice.

Migrant Crisis

Migrant Families Begin Leaving Floyd Bennett Field in Confusion and Relief

Dec. 23, 2024, 2:52 p.m.Dec. 23, 2024, 2:52 p.m.

All residents of the Brooklyn tent shelter complex are slated to depart by Jan. 15. Some have been reassigned in recent days, with others still eager to leave the tent encampment.

Immigrants

New Yorkers Mourn Pope Francis, the ‘Pope of the People’

Judge Temporarily Blocks ICE’s Return to Rikers Island

ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Apartment. Now He’s in El Salvador’s Mega-Prison.

Immigrants Keep Lining Up to Learn English as City Hall Cuts

NYC Law Allowing Noncitizens to Vote is Unconstitutional, State’s Highest Court Rules

NYC Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Muted on Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda

Mayor Adams Mostly Spared Republican Wrath at House Hearing on Sanctuary Laws

One Hundred NYC Immigrants Arrested in Week One of Trump ICE Raids

Faith-Based Immigrant Helpers ‘Unclear’ and Uninspired After Meeting With Mayor

Migrant Families Begin Leaving Floyd Bennett Field in Confusion and Relief

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