Black folks in Brooklyn and Queens were already the primary source on this issue, and for decades they've watched it unfold as no one listened.
Chi Ossé, the son of hip-hop journalist Combat Jack, has consistently fought against evictions stemming from deed theft, which have been rising in New York.
In this op-ed, Stephen A. Crockett Jr. writes that ICE has become a roaming tribunal that decides who gets to stay and who disappears.
The NYC mayor called the detention of a city council employee at a routine immigration appointment an “assault on our democracy,” as city officials demand answers from ICE.