For years, ICE has been operating a secretive program to train civilians how to use guns, conduct surveillance, and simulate raids on immigrants.
Recently uncovered documents show that the program is still ongoing in more than a dozen U.S. cities.
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- Today we are releasing Wage Theft Monitor — the largest public repository of data on New York businesses found guilty of wage theft. This is the culmination of a five-year effort to provide more transparency about the conditions New York workers face. 🗺: nywagetheft.com
- We spoke to the Halal food cart vendors who recorded a viral video of Stuart Seldowitz, a former Obama adviser, launching an Islamophobic rant. He's a regular menace on the Upper East Side — and police refused to do anything about it.
- Replying to @itslaylasBREAKING: NYPD has charged Stuart Seldowitz with aggravated harassment in the second degree, harassment, hate crime/stalking, stalking to cause fear, and stalking at place of employment.
- NEW: Stuart Seldowitz has been arrested. Charges against him are pending. Here's what Muslim street vendors had to say about his campaign of Islamophobic attacks: documentedny.com/2023/11/22/stu…
UPDATE in Street Vendor Case in Our Community: The Suspect is in NYPD custody and has been arrested. Thank you to @NYPD19Pct for their swift investigation. Hate and harassment have no place in our community. - Prior to an Islamophobic video of Stuart Seldowitz, a former adviser to President Obama, going viral — his victims reached out to police to stop his harassment. “The police said ‘we can’t do anything, this is New York,’” a street vendor told us.
- Democrats call on Biden to empower asylum seekers with work authorizations and eliminate the 150-day waiting period. “I personally believe that the White House has been inconsistent in its stance on work authorization,” @AOC told us.
- Federal and state investigators determined that employers have stolen more than $52 million from restaurant workers, making it the industry with the highest rate of wage theft in the state. NEW @MaxSiegelbaum investigation with @propublica
- Amazon wants to settle in Queens - which has about 50% immigrant residents - and do business with ICE at the same time.
- 🚨 Documented launches newimmigrants.nyc, a homepage for newly arrived asylum seekers. This is the essential guide for Day 1 in NYC with clear information about how to access shelter, food, free legal help, language classes and more.
- ✨ Documented has hired 3 multilingual journalists to deepen our coverage of New York's immigrant communities! Our community correspondents will work with residents to answer questions and serve news in the format and language that suit them. THREAD/
- Indigenous immigrants are often mistakenly assumed to be part of a monolithic Spanish-speaking group. Without translators of their languages — Nahuatl and Zapotec to name a few — these immigrants can't communicate at high-stakes deportation hearings. documentedny.com/2022/06/17/ind…
- Fisayo Okare has joined the Documented team as our newsletter writer. She is a @columbiajourn graduate and a former journalist with @stearsbusiness. She also co-wrote a @YIAGA book about young legislators who overcame threats to win elections in Nigeria. Please welcome @fisvyo!
- For asylum seekers, we developed a compact Spanish booklet with crucial information on local assistance, free internet access, and mental health support. When we distributed these at respite centers, we learned about the migrant experience in NYC. Share: documentedny.com/2023/07/06/mig…
