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Fight
for Brooklyn's 11th Congressional District Has
Multi-Million
Dollar Price Tag
From Carib News
As the highly controversial election for the Eleventh
Congressional
district races closer with each passing day, the
election funds
rise higher, and people have begun to wonder if the
seat can
be bought.
Flushing
Chinese Looking for Solidarity After Grace Meng Drops
Out
From World Journal
Johnson Lee, co-director of the Chinese American
Voters Association
thinks Ellen Yang, the only remaining Asian
candidate,
shouldn't take her victory for granted.
Queens
Electoral Battle Creates Rift in Asian-Indian
Community
From India Abroad
Morshed Alam, who is running for a seat in the state
assembly,
accused rival Rory Lancman of racism. But Uma
Sengupta, Democratic
leader of the 25th Assembly District, said that no
one has
done more to bring South Asians into the political
process than
Rory.
Political
Football Played with NYC School Funds
From El Tiempo de New York
With so many of their children in crowded public
schools, Latinos
are paying special attention to the gubernatorial
candidates'
position on how much the State of New York will
contribute to
New York City's schools before casting their
votes.
Immigrants are paying close attention to some of the races in this year's primary election. The Chinese community in Flushing are searching for an Asian candidate to run in the 22nd District of the State Assembly a promiment Asian candidat dropped out of the race. Leadersin the 25th Assembly District in Queens are worreid that firece comptetion between South Asian candidates will threaten thier community. For details, go to out primary election coverage.
Last month a federal judge ordered that the city stop denying food stamps and other aid to battered immigrant women and children. The city was also asked to overhaul the error-plagued computer programs and training manuals that continue to lead welfare workers to turn them away.
Immigrant advocates are planning to mobilize another round of immigration demonstration on September 7 in Washington DC. "We want to make sure that Congress and this administration get a very clear message that the immigrant community is still paying attention to what's happening in the immigration debate and that we know that it's election time," said Jaime Contreras, chairman of the National Capital Immigration Coalition, the rally's organizer.
A new report by The Pew Hispanic Center found that increases in immigration since 1990 have not hurt employment prospects for American workers. Rakesh Kochhar, the study 's author, said that there was no evidence that increases in immigration led to higher unemployment among Americans
These stories and others from the Bengali, Chinese, Russian, South Asian and Spanish language press via our partner, Voices That Must Be Heard.
New
Green Card Applications Expected to Flood Immigration
Offices
From Nowy Dziennik
Even though the U.S. Congress hasn't pushed through the new
immigration
law, there are already concerns regarding processing of the
permanent
residency forms, which would be sent in by eligible
immigrants after
the new law has been approved.
Russian
Immigrants Take On the Fed
From Novoye Russkoye Slovo
David Vesnovsky, 72, and his wife Bella, 68, are two of 11
plaintiffs
who have filed suit against the federal government over
naturalization
delays. The class-action lawsuit composed of a group of
Russian-speaking
immigrants from Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long
Island was
filed in Brooklyn federal court.
Ecuadorian
Family Faces Deportation for Pro-Immigrant Activism
From Ecuador News
After becoming well known as a pro-immigrant student
activist, Gabriela
Pacheco and her entire family were arrested and now face
deportation
charges. The family's lawyer claims that this is in
retaliation for
the family's immigrant rights activism.
Foreign-Born
Population Rising in New York
From Novoye Russkoye Slovo
The number of foreign-born New Yorkers has increased by
almost half
a million over the past six years, according to the
findings of the
American Community Survey published by the Census
Bureau.
Brooklyn
Bengalis Change The Face of Church McDonalds'
Neighborhood
From Weekly Thikana
The Church McDonalds area, in Brooklyn, was once dominated
by Hispanic
and Greek immigrants. But according to Shafiqul Alam
Alster, a Bengali
who has been living there since the 1970s,
the number of Bengalis
living
in the area has increased dramatically.
Feds
Arrest 31 Members of Female Smuggling Ring in
Queens
From Hoy
The federal agents arrested 31 people on Thursday for
allegedly smuggling
Korean women into the United States and forcing them to
prostitute
themselves as payment for the "benefits" they
received.
Deceptive
Ads Often Target Immigrants
From Russian
Advertisements for work in massage parlors, night clubs and
spas in
immigrant papers often target vulnerable newly arrived
immigrants,
who find out, after being hired, that they will be working
as modern-day
sex slaves
New
Chinatown Gangs Engage In Non-Traditional Crimes
From World Journal
Following a major government crackdown, Chinatown gangs
have gone
underground and are expanding their activities from illegal
gambling
to more sophisticated crimes like narcotics trafficking,
producing
false credit cards and identity theft.
Tenants
Demand Justice from Landlords
From El Diario / La Prensa
Maria Quintanilla has lived for 16 years in Bushwick,
Brooklyn, with
no shower, a ceiling that's about to fall in, broken
windows, a sealed
emergency exit and to have bed bugs in the bedrooms; she
even claims
to have been assaulted by her landlord's representative.
Residents
Urged to Keep Flushing Clean
From World Journal
On August 12, in front of the Queens Public Library,
several members
of the Flushing Business Improvement District, the City of
New York
Department of Sanitation, and Councilmember John C. Liu (D
Queens)
heralded the Campaign to Increase Public Awareness among
residents
to stop littering and keep the streets of Flushing
clean.
