Immigrant Groups Sue Trump Administration Over “Last Ditch” Rule Change
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With just over a week to go before the end of the Trump Administration, immigration advocates filed a federal lawsuit in the Washington, D.C. district court against a Department of Justice rule they claim would create “devastating” new barriers to those with cases in immigration court.
The rule, which was announced in December, is set to take effect on Friday. It is being challenged by five immigration advocacy organizations around the country, including Brooklyn Defender Services.
Public Defenders Push Biden Administration to Reverse Trump Era Immigration Policies
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Growing Concerns Over City Jails Handling Of The Pandemic’s Second Wave
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With New York City’s COVID-19 positivity rate now at more than 9 percent, there are growing concerns about how to protect those incarcerated in city jails and the staffers who work among them.
On Tuesday, the city’s Correctional Health Services reported there were 48 patients with active infections out of a total of just over 5,000 detainees. More than a hundred staffers have been infected since late November. These numbers are nowhere near last spring’s surge, when hundreds of inmates and more than 1,400 staffers were sickened; about a dozen people from both groups, combined, died of COVID-19.
City’s Jail Population Rises After Bail Reform Gets A Rewrite
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After years of steady decline, the city’s jail population started going up this year. More than 4,700 people were in jail in November, compared to 3,800 at the end of April, based on the latest complete data available from the city. The majority are people who ve been accused of a crime but were not able to pay bail while waiting for their cases to play out in court.
That’s still much lower than the nearly 7,000 people in jail at the end of 2019. But it’s not what was expected in the year when New York enacted a groundbreaking new bail reform that prohibited judges from setting bail on most offenders, except those charged with violent felonies.
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Advocates Urge Legislature to Help Half Million New Yorkers by Fixing Broken Unemployment System
Robin Hood FoundationDecember 18, 2020 GMT
New York’s Flawed Partial Unemployment Insurance Program Disproportionately Harms Women and Persons of Color and Threatens Economic Recovery
Coalition Calls of Passage of Legislation introduced by Assemblymember Stirpe & State Senator Ramos (A446/S5754) to fix the system and strengthen the economy.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) With COVID-19 infections on the rise, a sluggish economic rebound, and critical provisions in the CARES Act set to expire in just two weeks, a coalition of leading advocacy groups and nonprofits including Robin Hood, the National Employment Law Project, and the Empire Justice Center today called on the New York State Legislature to avert stifling the state’s economic recovery and mitigate rising hardship for
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