Immigration News – Caribbean Life

The Stewart Hotel in midtown Manhattan is being used as an intake and assessment center for recently arrived immigrants on October 07, 2022 in New York City. A parking lot is being prepared on Randall's Island for the arrival of migrants that have arrived from Texas. After cancelling the plan to house asylum seekers in tents on Orchard Beach, Mayor Eric Adams is now preparing to move the site to Randall's Island.

Adams closes more Caribbean migrant shelters

By Nelson A. King

Haitian Bridge Alliance Executive Director Guerline Jozef.

Advocacy groups urge Senate to reject draconian legislation denying Caribbean immigrants due process

By Nelson A. King

FILE PHOTO: Candles are seen on the sign marking the entrance to the New York City Department of Corrections Rikers Island facility in Queens, in New York

New York City to pay $92.5 million to improperly detained immigrants

By Dawn Plummer

Murad Awawdeh, NYIC's executive director.

Outrage, alarm over Trump’s proposed immigration raids at churches, schools and hospitals

By Nelson A. King

Recently arrived migrants walk to a bus stop outside Floyd Bennett Field shelter on February 21, 2024 in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Adams announces more shelter closures for Caribbean migrants, including Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn

By Nelson A. King

Mayor Eric Adams speaks at the Billie Holiday Theatre in Restoration Plaza on July 28, 2022 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn borough in New York City

NY City mayor wants to work with Trump’s deportation czar

By Dawn Plummer

Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Phillip Davis.

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Bahamas, TCI, Grenada say no to Trump deportee plans

By Bert Wilkinson

New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

NY City ending voucher program for migrants

By Dawn Plummer

From left, Hon. Sylvia G. Ash; Joyce Perry, wife of US Amb. to Jamaica Nick Perry; Council Member Mercedes Narcisse; former Council Member Una S.T. Clarke; and Clarke's daughter, U.S. Rep. Yvette D. Clarke.

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Haitians in NY remain steadfast amid Trump’s deportation threats

By Nelson A. King

New York City Mayor Eric Adams

Immigrant advocates condemn Adams ‘attacks on right to shelter’

By Nelson A. King

New York City Mayor Eric Adams

NYC’s Asylum Application Help Center wins ABA’s Hodson Award for Public Service

By Nelson A. King

Legal law concept image - gavel and handcuffs

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Queens woman indicted for stealing $73k from Caribbean nationals in immigration scam

By Nelson A. King

Murad Awawdeh

Court’s decision on CityFHEPS housing voucher ‘a devastating blow’: Immigration advocates

By Nelson A. King

Murad Awawdeh

Caribbean

Undocumented Caribbean, other immigrants paid $96.7B in taxes in 2022: New study

By Nelson A. King

Murad Awawdeh, NYIC's executive director.

Immigration advocates, Clarke praise Biden’s move to aid long-standing undocumented immigrants

By Nelson A. King

United Airlines Airbus Captain Anthony Greene.

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From Guyana to the international skies: Anthony Greene’s journey to becoming a pilot

By Tracey Khan

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Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

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