Linda LeMura, first female layperson to serve as president of a Jesuit college, says her mother’s American ideals meant everything.
Immigration
Posted inOnondaga County
Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon has kept the county in a state of emergency for nearly three years. Why?
McMahon has hundreds of times renewed two executive orders barring outside municipalities from funding housing for migrants in Onondaga County. That’s “unconstitutional,” says an NYCLU lawyer.
Posted inPolicing
Syracuse lawmakers ice out Flock Safety in favor of company contracting with ICE
Lawmakers finalized a plan to pivot its provider for license plate readers from Flock Safety to Axon Enterprise, citing immigration concerns. Flock officials called out their reasoning.
Posted inImmigration
‘Hedging her bets’: Syracuse Mayor Sharon Owens won’t codify anti-ICE stance
Advocates want to see Owens do as other Democratic mayors have recently done and turn her anti-ICE pledge into policy.
Posted inImmigration
One Syracuse lawyer’s relentless battle against ICE
Immigration enforcement agents are changing the rules of engagement. Syracuse lawyer Jose Perez has adapted to meet them.
Posted inImmigration
Central New York folk artists hope to fuel resistance through benefit concert for immigration resource network
The May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society on Wednesday will host the “Songs of Hope and Resistance Benefit Concert” from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Posted inPolicing
To fix ‘broken immigration system,’ Mannion helped expand ICE’s powers. Now, he wants reform.
Mannion voted for the Laken Riley Act, supporting Trump’s pledge for ICE to go after “the worst of the worst”. A year later, Mannion says that’s not what the country got from Trump’s immigration agencies.
Posted inJustice & Equity
‘It’s like I was losing my family:’ Iranian students in Syracuse suffer through state violence back home
Iranian university students from Syracuse were cut off from news of friends and family as thousands died in Iran.
Posted inSean Kirst
Sean Kirst: In Minneapolis shootings, a Lyncourt native wounded at Kent State hears familiar echoes
Tom Grace, one of 13 people shot by the Ohio National Guard in 1970 at Kent State, sees haunting parallels unwinding now.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Syracuse lawmakers to urge governor, state legislature to enact ‘New York For All’
The state legislation seeks to protect immigrants from dangerous elements of Trump’s deportations, including ICE collaboration with local police departments.