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Biden’s use of “illegal” isn’t just offensive. It’s untrue.
President Biden has said he’s sorry for using the term “illegal” in his State of the Union last week. The term is one historically rejected by Biden’s own administration, and much more broadly among those who realize how the United States depends on immigration for its survival. In 2020, New York City Council voted to…
Mayor Adams calls for more changes to NYC’s sanctuary laws
Last week, Mayor Eric Adams signaled a disagreement with NYC’s long-standing sanctuary laws suggesting that the city should much more openly cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This comes amid a generalized and heavily politicized migrant crime panic, despite data showing that immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than the native-born, fed by incidents…
Negotiations over possible immigration deal seem to collapse
After much buildup, it seems like negotiations over an immigration restrictionist deal in Congress have collapsed, tepid denials from leadership notwithstanding. While this might be hand-waved away as just another attempt by Congress to do, well, much of anything, there’s a key distinction here from prior efforts related to the diffuse notion of “comprehensive immigration…
There are many people besides migrants to blame for city budget cuts
You’d be forgiven for thinking that migrant arrivals have single-handedly blown a hole through the hull of the rapidly sinking city budget, based on both Mayor Eric Adams’ public pronouncements and the coverage of the ongoing budget crisis. As a refresher, the administration has ordered successive rounds of budget cuts over the last year or…
Here’s what needs to happen for migrants in NYC to be able to effectively join the workforce
This week, I published a report with the Center for an Urban Future that it’d been working on for a while, about what needs to happen for migrants in NYC to be able to effectively join the workforce. The brief already points out several conclusions, so I won’t summarize them again here, but the main…
An explainer on New York City’s current migrant situation
Felipe, why did the migrant issue get so much more attention over the summer? It’s become a significant part of the daily news churn for a couple of key reasons, one basically logistical and the other political. On the former, it naturally follows that the more people end up in the city’s care, the more…
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