Williamsburg Man Granted Temporary Visa to Care for Ailing Wife
After a year of legal battles led by NYLAG, a family was reunited in the face of illness.
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Pregnant Queens mom moved to ICE detention center in Louisiana ahead of deportation wins last-minute stay
A pregnant Queens mom caught in the Trump administration’s immigration net won a last-minute stay of deportation Tuesday — just before federal immigration agents were ...
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Pregnant, Sick, and Fast-Tracked for Deportation
A pregnant and very ill woman being detained and held in isolation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is being “fast-tracked” for deportation, she and her ...
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Does NY’s Legal System Provide Justice to Sexual Assault Survivors?
Lisa Rivera, NYLAG’s Managing Attorney, wrote this Op-Ed for Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the New York Law Journal
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How Long Will States’ Foreclosure Prevention Services Last?
Rose Marie Cantanno, associate director of NYLAG’s foreclosure prevention, was featured in a U.S. News and World Report article about funding threats to foreclosure prevention ...
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Worse than a wall: Trapping asylum seekers in Mexico
An Op-Ed published in The Hill and written by NYLAG immigration attorney Elizabeth Gibson describes the horrific ramifications of increasingly strict limitations on protections for ...
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Financially hard-up women get help in pursuing MeToo cases
NYLAG recieved funding from the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund to help Saturnina take action after she was sexually harrassed at work.
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Sponsors of migrant children face steep transport fees and red tape
NYLAG immigration attorney Crystal Fleming quoted in this article in the New York Times.
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Their husbands abused them. Shouldn’t divorce be easy?
May Raymond, a NYLAG client, is featured in this article in The New York Times.
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New York’s homeless Girl Scout troop plans for the future
On January 15 NYLAG celebrated Martin Luther King Day with 48 girl scouts from Troop 6000, the first-ever troop created for homeless girls living in ...
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