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1 month ago | 
documentedny.com | April Xiaoyi Xu |Fisayo Okare |Amir Khafagy |Malick Gai
Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. Crisis hits New York state’s refugee agencies:New York state’s 10 refugee resettlement agencies, located in Buffalo (4), Rochester (2), Syracuse (1), Utica (1), Binghamton (1) and Albany (1), are in limbo, as are similar agencies around the nation.
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1 month ago | 
documentedny.com | Clarissa Leon |Amir Khafagy |Tracey Khan |Faye Qiu |Lam Vo
“Everywhere I go, I am asked the same question: ‘how do you stay so fit?’,” says Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên, a renowned Vietnamese American singer and emcee, in a YouTube ad. “‘You stand on high heels for hours and go to the gym, how do you do it?’ people will ask me.” The video ad shows Nguyễn sitting in a brightly lit kitchen that could easily resemble the set of a home shopping channel. Her image is surrounded by graphics claiming that she has a special offer for those who call.
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2 months ago | 
documentedny.com | Faye Qiu |Rebecca Davis |Amir Khafagy |Rommel H Ojeda
This story was originally published by THE CITY. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning. A taxpayer-funded program to house incarcerated people released from Rikers in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic became an elaborate fraud conspiracy in which the founder and former CEO of Exodus Transitional Community, Julio Medina, pocketed millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged Thursday.
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2 months ago | 
documentedny.com | Faye Qiu |Rommel H Ojeda |Amir Khafagy |Tracey Khan
Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. New York’s fight over whether to aid ICE heats up in Albany:As federal immigration officials boast of increased arrests across New York, a debate over whether and how local authorities should cooperate is intensifying in the state capitol.
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2 months ago | 
documentedny.com | Faye Qiu |Fisayo Okare |Ralph Joseph |Amir Khafagy
Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. Dollar General tells stores to let ICE talk to staff, customers:“Please allow the agent to speak with the employee,” the retailer instructed store managers in a confidential memo Thursday.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
documentedny.com | Amir Khafagy |Fisayo Okare |April Xiaoyi Xu |Rachel Kahn |Madeline Faber
It’s happened to all of us: You walk into the voting booth sure of your decisions, only to be overwhelmed when you flip the ballot over and see a bunch of questions you’ve never thought about before. THE CITY is here to help take some of the pressure off. Election Day is Nov. 5, and early voting starts Oct. 26.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
thecity.nyc | Amir Khafagy
This article originally appeared in Documented. Ahsan Chughtai sat on a gilded chair, wearing a garland and clutching a small water bottle as a group of businessmen paid their respects to him. Prominent members of New York’s Pakistani community had gathered to celebrate his appointment as Mayor Eric Adams’ Senior Advisor on South Asia and Muslim Affairs in March of 2022, as well as two other people who had ascended to the highest echelons of New York City’s government.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Rommel H Ojeda |Amir Khafagy |Tracey Khan
On July 31, home contractor Artemio Fuerte, 38, appeared at the New Rochelle City Court in New York’s Westchester County. According to County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah, Fuerte owned and operated Fuerte Construction LLC, a company that stole $31,500 from at least eight immigrant workers he employed between 2020 and 2023. As part of his plea agreement with prosecutors, Fuerte was sentenced to eight misdemeanor counts of wage theft.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
documentedny.com | Amir Khafagy |Ralph Joseph |Fisayo Okare |Kathryn Krawczyk
Social media has become a big part of the lives of migrants in New York, and therefore, so has misinformation. Documented recently surveyed our WhatsApp community about how they receive election news and found that nearly half of the people who responded said that they mostly got their news from platforms like Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. But much of the content on these platforms can be misleading and sometimes outright false.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
documentedny.com | Amir Khafagy |Ralph Joseph |Fisayo Okare |Kathryn Krawczyk
This story is a collaboration with the Associated PressBrad Song thought he was about to get his e-bike stolen a second time in a less than a month after delivering an order for Chinese food app Fantuan Delivery. Seven strangers surrounded the Chinese immigrant and knocked him off the scooter. He was rescued when a nearby motorist revved his engine, scaring the assailants.
