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Reports on the class action suit filed against New York State by immigrants whose supplemental security income benefits were cut by the state. Constitutional violations allegedly committed by the state by using alien status to deny the elderly, blind or disabled residents lawful standard of need; Basis of the state's decision to cut the benefits.

Reports on the efforts of New York's Department of Motor Vehicles to impose stricter controls over taxi drivers. Conduction of a hearing by the State Assembly's Transportation committee to effect safeguards against the potential acquisition of drivers licenses by terrorists or dangerous drivers; Focus of the proposed program on drivers with inaccurate Social Security numbers; Criticism against the strategy by immigrants working as taxi drivers; Approval of the incentive by relatives of the people who died in the September 9, 2001 terrorist attack.

Reports on the crackdowns on immigrants in New York City. Antiterrorism measures against Muslims.

Relates the story of a teenage girl, after graduating from high school, heading to St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, to pursue her tertiary education. Scholarship; College costs; Poverty.

The article reports on a City Council hearing on the proposed transfer of lands in Hart Island from the Department of Corrections to the parks department in the New York, as of January 2015, and mentions that city agencies opposed the proposal.

The article discusses New York State nursing homes that file guardianship petitions in an effort to gain full legal power over their patients and collect patient debts. Topics addressed include a petition brought against a patient at the Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home, as well as judges' rulings on similar cases and the legal aspects of guardianship in New York.

The article discusses the impact of New York's policy of shifting 6 billion dollars in Medicaid spending on long-term services for disabled and aged people to managed care companies as of May 8, 2014. Topics addressed include managed care companies' efforts to enroll clients who do not need as much care as severely disabled people; the impact on residents of adult homes; and managed care company CenterLight's efforts to sign up individuals who were sheltering in hotels during Hurricane Sandy.

The article discusses Hoboken, New Jersey Mayor Dawn Zimmer's claim that New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno threatened to withhold Hurricane Sandy recovery funds from Hoboken unless Zimmer supported a real estate project favored by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, highlighting increased public attention paid to Zimmer as a result. Topics addressed include Zimmer's personality and political approach, as well as her career accomplishments as mayor and her reasons for entering politics.

The article discusses an increase in the number of social adult day care centers in New York City as of April 22, 2013, highlighting the centers' use by healthy elderly people and the Medicaid costs of the centers. Topics addressed include a lack of government regulation of the centers, the centers' connections to managed care plans in New York City, and the eligibility of those attending the centers.

The article discusses the arrest of immigrant workers in Greenport, New York, in Operation Community Shield, a two-year old national program for finding out violent gang members for deportation. According to the Southold Town police, only one out of the 11 men arrested in Greenport, was suspected of a gang association, while the other 10 were not gang associates, but only accused of immigration violations.

This article reports on a raid conducted by federal immigration agents in Nassau County, New York that allegedly endangered the citizens. Twice during the raid the agents pulled guns on Nassau County police detectives according to Lawrence W. Mulvey who is the Nassau County Police Commissioner. Nassau County is demanding an investigation into the conduct of the agents.

This article presents information about New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's announcement that the Department of Motor Vehicles will begin accepting a current foreign passport as proof of identity without also requiring a valid yearlong visa or other evidence of legal immigration. The policy does not require legislative approval and will be phased in beginning in December 2007. Spitzer claims the measure will help to save New York drivers money on their auto insurance.

The article reports that a New York immigration judge has been removed from the case of a Chinese man whom she rebuked for crying in court. Judge Noel A. Ferris had denied Jian Zhong Sun asylum and had complained to him in court that she felt his crying was in disproportion to what she felt was not believable testimony. An appeals court ruled that the judge had mischaracterized the evidence and the demeanor of the asylum seeker.

This article describes how reading outside in the summer amongst strangers at various places in New York City brings another dimension to reading. The author believes that the outdoor reader shares a timeless urban conversation between the world and the written word. Some read and then stop to look around and reflect and let their imaginations wander.

The article reports that some of the survivors of the 2004 massacre at the United Nations refugee camp Gatumba in Burundi, are being resettled in Albany, New York. Some 535 Gatumba survivors are scattered across the U.S. They have been approved for refugee resettlement. Of them, 17 have resettled in Albany. At least 166 unarmed civilians were massacred at the camp.

This article reports on the efforts of the members of the Fraud Detection and National Security unit in New York City. The unit started operations by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services nearly three years ago and is just beginning to see results from its efforts. The group doesn't conduct raids or detain and deport illegal immigrants, but does look for fraud in the six million applications made each year. The New York City unit of six investigators is led by Joseph T. Knipper.

This article discusses birth rates of Mexican children in new York City. The article notes that there has been a 28 percent increase in births to Mexican women in New York City since 2000, and that Native U.S.-born mothers account for less than half of all births in New York City as of June 2007. Mexicans are among New York City's top three immigrant groups, behind Chinese and Dominican immigrants in population.

This article discusses immigration law in the U.S. The article examines the impact of proposed immigration laws on immigrants in New York City, noting that the proposed law would not end immigration into the city, but that it would certainly meter the number of immigrants coming into New York City. Several immigrant-run businesses in New York City are also profiled.

The article offers information regarding the lawsuit involving Salifou Yankene, who was enlisted as child soldier by rebel troops in Ivory Coast. In November 2006, he escaped from Ivory Coast and asked for asylum at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Lawyer Elliot F. Kaye took up the case of Yankene without fee in January 2007.

This article reports on a U.S. federal raid on a Long Island, New York home, in search of deported man Patrizio Wilson Garcia. Garcia was deported in 2003 after divorcing his wife, and the author notes that the raid represented a response by long-standing concerns over illegal immigration in Long Island.

The article discusses episodes of polygamy in the U.S. While the practice is outlawed, some Islamic African husbands living in America have taken on second wives. Two instances of such polygamy in New York City that came to light in 2007 are cited. Under U.S. immigration law, polygamy constitutes grounds for exclusion, and under New York state law, bigamy can be punished by imprisonment for up to four years.

This article describes the lesser-known lives of the West Africans who died in a fire in a Bronx, New York row house on March 7, 2007. Many of the people living in the neighborhood of the fire have come from Mali in Africa and have established an enclave here. Some of the families, such as those who died in the fire, are the products of polygamy. Many of the Malians are illegal immigrants who still retain strong bonds with Mali.

The article discusses the charitable contributions of wealthy New York Chinese-Americans and their non-Chinese American recipients. Virginia Kee, founder of the Chinese-American Planning Council, says wealthy Chinese-Americans have raised $500,000 for the Frick collection and millions for breast cancer research, but scant donations to help poor Chinese-American and new Chinese immigrants. Henry Tang, founder of the Committee of 100, says that the waves of immigrants from different Chinese areas deter giving.

The article reports that illegal immigrant farmworkers are being traced and caught by immigration law enforcement authorities in New York. It has been reported that a new climate of fear is taking place in rural communities of western and central New York as immigration laws of the U.S. are enforced more intensively. These workers, largely from Mexico, are caught in raids and sent to jails. Employers who hire illegal workers are also liable to face criminal prosecution.

The article profiles Adama Bah, a high school student living in New York City who was accused by the United States federal government of being a potential suicide bomber in 2004. Bah, who wishes to remain with her family, is requesting political asylum from her home country of Guinea at a court hearing in October 2006.

The article discusses a ruling by a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York that the United States government has wide latitude under immigration law to detain noncitizens based on religion, race, or national origin, and can hold them indefinitely without explanation. The ruling was in response to a class action lawsuit filed by Muslim immigrants detained after 9/11.

The article reports that immigrant communities around the U.S. panicked as rumors of federal immigration raids circulated. Many people went into hiding, emptying classrooms, work sites and shopping centers. Among the most affected were towns in New Jersey and New York. This situation seems to have been a reaction to Secretary of U.S. Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff's announcement concerning the crackdown on IFCO Systems of North America employing illegal immigrants.

The article looks at how immigrants in New York City are urging officials to support a piece of Senate legislation that would let them work legally toward citizenship, rather than punishing them with prison time. The author reviews how coalitions of Irish, Latinos, Asian and African immigrants from 50 countries have been championing the measure, with reportedly scant attention from government officials. According to the author, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles E. Schumer recently declared their support for the legislation.

The article reports that the U.S. federal government has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by an Egyptian who was among dozens of Muslim men swept up in the New York area after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The man was held for months in a federal detention center in Brooklyn and deported after being cleared of links to terrorism. The author reviews how the settlement is the first the government has made in a number of lawsuits charging that noncitizens were abused and their constitutional rights violated following the attacks.

The article reports on recent news regarding the hundreds of non-citizens swept up on visa violations in the weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The author reviews how some individuals were held for months in a federal detention center in Brooklyn as "persons of interest." According to the author, six former detainees are returning to the U.S. to give depositions in federal lawsuits against top government officials and detention guards. New York City.

The article reports on the survival of siblings of children abused and killed by a parent in New York.

The article considers the plight of siblings of abused children. The are put into foster care, which can exacerbate their problems, as children who have been damaged by abuse are moved from one unstable environment to another. The New York child welfare system has greatly improved over the past twenty years, but it is still difficult to find permanent placements and some children willingly return to their parents.

This article discusses the problems of abused immigrants who are being denied food stamps and other aid to which they are entitled by New York welfare computers and faulty training manuals. Computer menus omit the battered qualified alien category when an alien woman applies for aid. Some return to the abusive homes in order to avoid starvation. Lawyers for the domestic Violence Project of the Legal Aid Society have filed a lawsuit on behalf of many of the abused immigrants.

The article looks at the various cures for colic used by pediatricians and parents in New York City. The author reviews how doctors define colic as more than three hours of unexplained crying three times a week in an otherwise healthy infant. Six of ten babies in New York City have at least one foreign-born parent and the author suggests that this has created a cornucopia of colic cures.

Reports on New York cab driver, Waheed Saleh's, claim that the police department is harassing him and are attempting to have him deported in retaliation for his reporting the harassment. How Saleh has filed a complaint against the police under the mayor's Executive Order 41 (EO 41) protecting immigrants; Failure of EO 41 to provide a mechanism to independently enforce it; Comments from Michael Wishnie of New York University Law School and Robert Lawson of the mayor's office.

Reports that New York officials have turned one floor of an old Harlem welfare office into a welcoming center for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Review of how several hundred storm survivors have visited the office for disaster assistance; Comments regarding the office from Bob McHugh, a spokesman for the city's Human Resource Administration.

Focuses on a decision by a state judge ruling that New York State cannot give low-income people who are elderly, blind and disabled less benefit money just because they are immigrants, even though the federal government has stopped paying its share. Review of how the decision restores higher aid payments to thousands of disabled legal immigrants; Comments on the ruling from Jennifer Baum, a Legal Aid Society lawyer representing some of the plaintiffs.

Focuses on Ming Kuang Chen, a Chinese deliveryman who was rescued from a Bronx elevator in April. The trauma that he has felt since the 81-hour ordeal of being trapped without food or water; His fear of the dark and of immigration authorities; Suggestion that the illegal immigrant has moved away from New York; View that he has post-traumatic stress disorder; Idea there is a network of illegals who work for Chinese restaurants.

Looks at how old mill towns in New Jersey and upstate New York have drawn many immigrants to neighborhoods teetering between blight and renewal. Review of how the four suicide bombers in the July 7, 2005 terrorist bombings in London were from old mill towns; Statistics related to the population of Pakistani immigrants in the New Jersey and New York area; Authors view that the differences between the mill towns in American and those in the United Kingdom outweigh the similarities; Review of statistics related to household income; Discussion of the history social conditions of old mill towns in New York and New Jersey.

Focuses on the lack of translation services available to immigrant patients at St. Vincent's Staten Island Hospital. How this endangers patients and violates state and federal laws; Civil rights complaints filed against the hospital; Inquiry of the language barriers at four other hospitals in New York by attorney general Eliot Spitzer; Response of the hospital about this issue; Details of specific cases where patients were not adequately informed about surgery that was done or medical care.

Reports that two sixteen-year old New York City girls were arrested last month and charged with immigration violations after the F.B.I. asserted that they intended to become suicide bombers. Insistence by a spokesman for the girls that the charges were false and possibly based on a school essay one of them had written; Analysis of the girls' background; Comments from an F.B.I. official, who expresses skepticism with regard to the case.

Reports on the court's decision that New York officials should stop taking away the driver's licenses of immigrants who do not have Social Security cards. Ruling that the Department of Motor Vehicles is not authorized to enforce immigration laws; bases of the court's decision.

Reports on the increase in the welfare rolls of New York City in 2001. Statistics on the increase; Possibility of thousands of families who were cut from the rolls in December to be back within months; Appeal of New York State Governor George Pataki for increased federal aid for welfare assistance from the U.S. government.

The article reports on the revival of the memories of 1970s when several New York police officers were killed, by the incident of recent suicide by Ismaaiyl Brinsley after killing two police officers in the state in December 2014.

The article reports on the rising number of abuse and vulnerabilities faced by nursing home residents in New York City following the case of Frank Mercado, a dementia patient residing at the University Nursing Home in Bronx, New York, wherein he was killed and abused by nurse Cherrylee Young.

The article reports on a class action lawsuit filed against the commissioners of the New York State Department of Health and the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance in the Southern District Court on July 15, 2014 for alleged reduction of Medicaid home care services without notice.

The article reports on the concerns expressed by several residents in New York City regarding their health coverage under the New York Health Benefit Exchange following the termination of the Healthy NY program on December 31, 2013.

The article reports on the opposite treatment being received by seriously impaired people from managed-care companies in New York, which was reported to Medicaid director Jason A. Helgerson by legal advocates for disabled.

The article reports on the increasing cases of psychiatric emergency and hospital admissions in New York City. It cites the strained mental health resources at Beth Israel Medical Center due to the increasing psychiatric problems since the Hurricane Sandy hit the area. Health services chief Richard Rosenthal is proud how hospitals have collaborated to handle the psychiatric overflow in the aftermath of the monster storm.

The article discusses the effort by staff of Bellevue Hospital to evacuate patients from its damaged facilities caused by Hurricane Sandy in New York City on October 31, 2012. It notes that an elaborate disaster plan has been maintained by the hospital. It mentions that the hospital has been concerned with its low-lying location.