Stories for Liberation: The River In Between
{:en}As conditions for immigrant children reach unspeakable lows, an honors student from Central Islip High School remembers what it was like to be 8...
Federal Judge Temporarily Halts Deportations Of Separated Children And Parents
On Monday, July 16, a federal judge temporarily froze deportations of parents and children separated at the border, dealing another blow to Trump’s deportation...
Op-ed: LI Law Enforcement Can’t Distance Themselves From ICE If They Honor Administrative Warrants
Suffolk County law enforcement top brass attempted to distance themselves from federal immigration enforcement last week at a meeting of the county legislature’s Public...
Court Says Trump Administration Can’t Ignore Court’s Order Concerning Children Separated At Border
U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw pressed the Trump administration at a hearing on Friday, July 13, on the failure of the Departments of...
Trump Administration Fails To Reunite Many Refugee Children And Parents
Last month, a federal judge in San Diego ordered the Trump administration to reunite parents and children separated at the border. The first group...
Judge Blocks Trump Move To Detain Separated Children Indefinitely
The Trump administration lost another round in federal court this week in its effort to deprive immigrant children of their rights under the court-supervised...
4-Year-Old On Long Island Still Separated From Parents, Despite Order To Reunite Families
A 4-year-old girl residing at the Long Island MercyFirst shelter — which is caring for 10 immigrant children separated from their parents — has...
Protestors Demonstrate Outside Nassau’s Executive Building Amid Calls To Abolish ICE
Protestors urged the Nassau County Police Department (NCPD) to stop collaborating with ICE outside of the Nassau County Executive Building, as Fios1 News reported...
Stories For Liberation: Running and Running and Running
{:en}This story of sorrow and compassion from a young woman in high school reminds us of the need for children to stay with their...
Call County Executive Laura Curran to End Nassau Cooperation With ICE
It is urgent that Nassau County residents call County Executive Laura Curran to demand an end to Nassau’s current policy of cooperating with U.S....
Judge Lets Challenge to Census Citizenship Question Move Forward
A federal judge grilled the government on Tuesday at a hearing regarding the White House’s attempt to dismiss the lawsuit against the proposed citizenship...
Public Continues to Recoil From Trump’s Attack on Immigrants
Christ Church Cathedral is seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis. This week, it placed statues of the Holy Family, usually used at Christmas,...
Thousands Rally Around Long Island Against Family Separation
Rallies took place around Long Island on Saturday, June 30, in response to the Trump Administration's "Zero Tolerance" policy of separating immigrant parents from...
Long Island Rallies Against Family Separation This Weekend
This weekend will be a time when Long Islanders will express their opposition to the cruel separation of families at the border and the...
Irish Immigrant Henry Sweeney and the Ku Klux Klan in Texas in 1868
Henry Sweeney had a successful stint as head of the Freedmen’s Bureau at Helena, Arkansas in the first two years of Reconstruction. The Irish-born...
Federal Judge Puts A Temporary Stop To Family Separation, Orders Separated Families To Be...
A federal judge has temporarily halted on Tuesday, June 26, the Trump administration’s cruel and inhumane policy of separating families, as well as ordering...