PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A crowd of about 100 people tried to shove through a metal gate in Haiti’s capital as a guard with a baton pushed them back, threatening to hit them. Undeterred, children and adults alike, some of them carrying babies, kept elbowing each other trying to enter. “Let us in! We’re hungry!” they … Read more
CHICAGO — Eight people living at a Chicago shelter for migrants have tested positive for measles since last week, prompting the arrival of a team with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to guide city and state officials’ response to the infections, including vaccination efforts. Ten infections total have been reported in the city … Read more
Two residents of the embattled Randall’s Island migrant shelter were arrested Monday night for assaulting a security guard, according to police. A male shelter resident allegedly punched the guard in the face at the facility at 600 East 125th St. at around 7 p.m., police said. Cops who responded to the report of an assault … Read more
The Adams administration is cracking down by putting curfews on more migrant shelters — just days after a 15-year-old migrant was cuffed for allegedly shooting a tourist and aiming his gun at cops during a Times Square robbery. Twenty Housing Preservation and Development-run respite centers across Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx will begin requiring … Read more
In contrast, in 2010, Jung said his family was unable to salvage any of their belongings from their burning house and had no choice but to run. “The shells rained down, smoke billowed, and everything was engulfed in flames and destroyed, there was no time to think about anything else,” he told Agence France-Presse. Having … Read more
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