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Applicants would be asked to verbally describe three color photographs showing "ordinary usage scenery, such as daily activities, the weather or food," according to a notice in the Federal Register by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Long Island schools, aware of the pandemic-fueled increase in student anxiety and depression, are doing more this school year to help students coping with 2½ years of remote learning, isolation, learning loss and more.
Civil rights and immigration support groups protested Suffolk County’s plans to block migrants from relocating there, saying any lawsuit would be discriminatory. Then, legislators sidestepped the issue.
On May 16, Riverhead Town Supervisor Yvette Aguiar declared a state of emergency to prevent immigrants and asylum seekers from being sheltered in the town.
The Suffolk County Legislature will be in session Tuesday to hire an outside attorney to explore blocking New York City from sending migrants to hotels in the county.