November 2023

  As New York continues it’s band aid approach to the surging immigrant situation, I must think about this famous quote about insanity, often attributed to Albert Einstein. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” New York City, i.e. the Mayor and his policy analysts, […]

  As New York City faces the challenge of addressing the housing crisis for unauthorized noncitizens, it is crucial to explore alternatives that prioritize compassion, integration, and empowerment. While the recent use of school gyms, re-purposed prisons, and tent city’s under expressways may provide temporary relief, a more comprehensive and humane solution can be found

Since 1965, New York City has continued to be a major destination for immigrants from a wide range of countries and regions from across the globe. Here’s a list of various immigrant groups and the corresponding timeframe in which they have immigrated into New York City. It’s important to note that immigration patterns can be

Whenever there is an issue that effects any other community African American, Jewish, Palestinian, Gay or LBGTQ+ they mobilize and demand intervention, or a remedy. But the Latino community here in New York City is absent and silent.Where other communities voice thier distain and make there issues and concerns known, the Latinex/Latino/Hispanic accepts it. Aye

Hats off to Atlanta rapper Tip ‘T.I.’ Harris as he celebrates the opening of his first affordable housing development. He truely exemplifies, and does’nt just preach, a concern for the community. He personifies the true meaning of not forgetting where you came from. I wish some of the New York Latinex celebrity’s would follow suit.

As “Trump’s anti-immigrant onslaught sparks fresh alarm heading into 2024” and “His comments have renewed concern from Latino leaders, civil rights groups and experts on extremism…” (1)  When is enough, enough? While the vast majority of immigrants coming into the United States these days are Latino, they are just the newest group to be scapegoated.