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Raiza Contreras, whose son Dylan has been in ICE detention since Might, attended Trump’s State of the Union as visitor of U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer. Photograph courtesy Schumer’s workplace A Bronx mom whose 21-year-old son has spent almost 9 months in ICE detention was U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer’s visitor on the Feb. 24 State of the Union handle by President Donald Trump. Raiza Contreras’s son, Venezuelan-born Dylan Lopez Contreras, was the primary NYC public faculty pupil to be detained in Trump’s immigration crackdown. Based on attorneys, Dylan got here to america legally, utilized for asylum, adopted all relevant legal guidelines,…

The New York Metropolis Council held its first listening to on Wednesday relating to a package deal of laws aimed toward defending homes of worship and faculties and combating antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Christian hate within the metropolis. The laws is a part of Metropolis Council Speaker Julie Menin’s 5-Level Motion Plan to Fight Antisemitism, which she launched in January in response to an increase in reported antisemitic incidents in New York Metropolis and throughout the nation. It contains payments that will require the NYPD to “develop and publish a response plan for when there are credible concerns of injury, intimidation,…