At this hearing, @padilla.senate.gov asked me whether mass deportation is making us more safe. Here was my response.

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Trump is tearing apart families and turning routine immigration visits into nightmares.   ICE’s unjust and unwarranted detention of Allan Marrero, an LGBTQ New Yorker, is yet another example of this cruelty.   My office is working closely with Allan’s husband and legal team to reunite them.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

🚨 NEW: Arrests by ICE at airports have surged 94% this year compared to 2024 — a massive escalation: documentedny.com/2025/12/05/i...

Nearly 100 immigration judges have now been cut amid the Trump administration’s firing spree.

Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year the riders came home.

Driven by bond policy changes and harsh detainment conditions, the number of immigrants choosing voluntary departure over fighting deportation has increased 1,373 percent this summer. documentedny.com/2025/11/24/d...

🚩UPDATE: Joel Camas, the Gotham Collaborative High School student detained at a routine ICE check-in, has been ordered released after nearly a month in custody. documentedny.com/2025/11/17/b...

I am looking forward to being done with an election and a lame duck disgraced mayor so that city government can get to fixing big problems out there, including this one exposed by my colleague @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social.

🚨 A new report released yesterday from the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (@CSOH) analyzed 36,000 Islamophobic posts on X — and nearly 75% were targeting Zohran #Mamdani. Read more here: 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 documentedny.com/2025/11/04/i...

🌯 Bottom line: NYC's halal cart vendors aren't just endorsing #Mamdani, they're actively organizing for him because he's the first candidate to actually listen to them and their concerns. Read more here 👇🏻 👇🏻 👇🏻 documentedny.com/2025/11/04/h...

Cuomo's attempting to court South Asian voters while also platforming voices that vilify Muslims. documentedny.com/2025/10/27/c...

Cuomo's attempting to court South Asian voters while also platforming voices that vilify Muslims. documentedny.com/2025/10/27/c...

Yesterday's mayoral debate had one big question tied to immigration — What would the candidates do in the case of the ICE raid on Canal St? Read their answers here: documentedny.com/2025/10/23/n... 🖊️ @amirkhafagy91

Documented went down and spoke with vendors who said federal agents stormed Canal Street without warning — leaving dozens detained and the community in shock and confusion. 📝 @KEXU3 and @Anna_Oakes1 🔗 documentedny.com/2025/10/23/ice-raid-chinatown-vendors-arrested

Given news today of visa revocations, this seems more telling than ever. documentedny.com/2025/10/10/m...

Since the NYPD shot dead Win Rozario in 2024, the Bangladeshi community has demanded police reform. Prajwal Bhat of our partner @documentedny.bsky.social discusses how Zohran Mamdani is paying attention on @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social with @errollouis.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/shorts/Vg72x...

One lawyer. 2,346 fraudulent Violence Against Women Act petitions = 47% of ALL withdrawn VAWA applications NATIONWIDE. The staggering scale of Kofi Amankwaa's immigration fraud scheme is incredible — and his victims are still suffering. documentedny.com/2025/10/06/k...

HAPPENING NOW: 11 lawmakers have been arrested by DHS on the tenth floor of 26 Federal Plaza after trying to gain access for over an hour.

@cestrommel and @ralphthjo dive into @NYPD's latest e-bike confiscation of 53 bikes. For one delivery worker, not having his bike amounted to more than $2K in lost wages. documentedny.com/2025/09/17/e...

Good for Gustavo and all Los Deliveristas! time.com/collections/...

🇲🇽 In the midst of all the Mexican Independence Day parade cancellations, the community in Staten Island came OUT. "We are not going back to the shadows," members told the organizers. cc @HolaLaYesenia / @LaColmenaNYC Read more from @cestrommel here: documentedny.com/2025/09/15/s...

In immigrant neighborhoods like Jackson Heights, Bellerose & Midwood, Zohran Mamdani found strong support. But organized Islamophobic attacks — both online and in the air — may weaken that support ahead of the general election.

Thank you @RBReich - Robert Reich - for sharing our work (on Facebook) ! documentedny.com/2025/09/11/u...

Many undocumented 9/11 workers struggle with health issues — and recent cuts to health programs make it worse. @RepAOC is reintroducing the 9/11 Immigrant Worker Freedom Act today, offering them a path to citizenship nearly 25 years later. Via @AmirKhafagy91@AOC documentedny.com/2025/09/11/u...

“A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States.” @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

📈Trump’s tariffs on India — a response to purchasing Russian oil — have been devastating South Asian immigrant storeowners across NYC and NJ. 💵 Prices are going up... up... up. documentedny.com/2025/09/04/d...

⏰ @NYCComptroller unveils the second annual 'Employer Wall of Shame,' a list of companies violating labor laws. The list includes Amazon, DoorDash, and several home care agencies. ✏️ @AmirKhafagy91 documentedny.com/2025/09/03/c...

🚨 Being detained at the border is down 📉 while being detained in the U.S. is going up 📈 . For NYC's immigrant families, the numbers mean daily uncertainty. Read the latest from Rommel Ojeda: documentedny.com/2025/08/20/i...

@propublica.org reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social's in THE BACK ROOM discussing Trump's draconian immigration policies podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

You have to wonder, at what point are they going to start listening to Chinatown residents? documentedny.com/2025/08/13/c...

Over 500 hospitals have closed obstetrics units since 2010. Trump’s proposed $70B Medicaid cuts to rural hospitals could accelerate the crisis, leaving pregnant people with nowhere to go. www.truthdig.com/articles/pre...

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Thank you @nytimes + @saacolon for citing @documentedny and our work on covering Merwil Gutierrez and his father's CECOT ordeal. Read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/n...

🚨 WaPo EXCLUSIVE Hours before Trump removed Billy Long as IRS commissioner, his agency clashed with the White House over sharing immigrants’ tax data.

#Delaney Hall faces scrutiny again -- not just for its conditions inside, but for those outside who have to wait sometimes 12 hours in 100-degree heat just to see their loved ones. documentedny.com/2025/08/06/p...

Pittsburgh's public TV and radio stations are facing $2.5 million in annual shortfalls due to Republican-led federal cuts. They have already laid off employees, raised money, and budgets are still coming up short. www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

BREAKING: Chris Smalls has been released from Israeli detention & is returning to the United States paydayreport.com/chris-smalls...

Thanks to @clarissaleon.bsky.social and the many other editors who attended our 2025 Freelance Fair documentedny.com/2025/07/25/m... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social

After four months of being held in El Salvador’s maximum security prison #CECOT, #Merwil #Gutiérrez— who was arrested in the Bronx— reunited with his sister in Venezuela last Friday. “Thank God my son is over there now,” his father told @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2025/07/21/v...

Over the weekend, @documentedny was happy to learn that Bronx asylum seeker Merwil Gutiérrez, now 20, was released from El Salvador's CECOT prison. Read more about the reunion with his sister here: documentedny.com/2025/07/21/v...

The Big Beautiful Bill is pretty ugly for Chinatown businesses who say cuts to SNAP will hurt their sales. One food store vendor said ALMOST ALL of her customers use SNAP. documentedny.com/2025/07/17/s...

NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

For Pride and Immigrant Heritage Month we interviewed Ricky Sim who sees himself in both worlds. Fascinating interview from @KEXU3 documentedny.com/2025/06/30/c...

‘We Have Done It’: Zohran Mamdani Celebrates Historic Win at Party in Long Island City documentedny.com/2025/06/25/w...

Our reporters hit up New York's five boroughs - including Staten Island - to see who might take the race today. Read more to see how everyone did. documentedny.com/2025/06/24/o...

Today on the Democratic mayoral primary election, members of 1199SEIU want union leadership to rescind the union's Cuomo endorsement. Members, many of whom are immigrant workers, say Cuomo doesn’t represent their values. documentedny.com/2025/06/23/r...

It's hot today for workers in NY, but The NY State Legislature ended its session without passing the TEMP Act, a bill that would regulate extreme temperatures in workplaces. documentedny.com/2025/06/24/n...