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Washington, DC – On Tuesday, July 18, Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) will host a panel of experts and other Members of Congress for a roundtable discussion on unlocking the keys to stimulating economic growth in Puerto Rico.
Link to livestream: https://www.youtube.com/user/nydiavelazquez/live
U.S. House Democrats are looking for answers after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at a Queens courthouse to arrest a woman believed to be a victim of human trafficking last month.
The ICE agents made three arrests outside the Queens Criminal Courthouse and had also planned to cuff a woman from China who was being tried for sex work in a human trafficking court. At the time, she was protected by lawyers from Legal Aid who asked the judge hold her on bail to allow her to leave the courthouse.
Congressional Democrats from New York City are calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to keep its officers away from courts that help victims of human trafficking. Their letter to the agency cites an incident last month in which deportation officers showed up at one such court in Queens looking for a woman who had been arrested for prostitution.
Washington, DC – New York City's Democratic Members of the U.S. House today wrote the heads of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following reports that federal immigration officials had been patrolling a Queens court that specializes in protecting human trafficking victims.
New Yorkers staunchly opposed to President Donald Trump's proposed slashes to aid that keeps millions in their homes took their outrage Wednesday to the nation's capital.
People from the city and around the country made their way to Washington, D.C., for a tenants march against the proposed budget cuts to federal housing programs.
Hundreds packed the Church of the Reformation, near the Capitol, for a standing-room-only rally before the Tenant March on Washington.
Washington, DC – Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) has written the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, calling for the agency to grant protections under the Freshwater Wetlands Act to the Ridgewood Reservoir.
"The Ridgewood Reservoir is a local environmental gem that we should protect for future generations," noted Velázquez. "Granting the reservoir wetland status would mean that legal environmental protections under the Freshwater Wetlands Act would be extended to the reservoir, aiding its preservation."
Washington, DC – Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) released the following statement regarding the recent collapse of a ‘Biao Hui' or underground lending club in Chinatown. Losses totaled more than $20 million for an estimated 780 investors, marking it one of the largest such losses in recent memory.
"Unfortunately, New York's immigrant communities are too often targets of deceit and fraud. We must all work together to ensure that our neighbors are educated about these scams and about correct ways to invest their money.
Washington, DC – Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) released the following statement regarding news that, during a radio interview, Thomas Rivera Schatz, Puerto Rican Senate President, used the masculine pronoun in reference to Ana Matosantos, the only female member of Puerto Rico's Financial Oversight Board:
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Washington, DC – Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) released the following statement regarding news that Puerto Rico's Financial Oversight Board voted unanimously to enter into Title III for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA):