Marianne McCune

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Reverend Jesse Jackson joined City Council members to ask New Yorkers to send aid to Haitians who can't afford the food they need. Jackson also met with local congress members to push for longer term solutions to Haiti's crisis.

REPORTER: Jesse Jackson just returned from three ...

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Another lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security was filed in Federal court today, this one is over prison conditions for detained immigrants. The plaintiffs are former detainees and several advocacy groups who say conditions in immigration prisons are wildly variable and too often inhumane. ...

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Immigrant advocates are protesting the use and misuse of a federal pilot program designed to help employers check the immigration status of new employees. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

REPORTER: Dunkin Donuts has been using the so-called E-Verify program since 2006. It's run by the Department of ...

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Advocates say an increasing number of immigrant workers are being fired from low-wage jobs because their social security numbers don't match their names - even though some have legal working papers. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

There are no hard numbers, but advocates say more employers are ...

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Some of the Pennsylvanians attending political rallies or meet-and-greets before Tuesday's primary are New Yorkers. They're not volunteers from the city, there to twist arms; they're recent transplants from the Dominican Republic to New York to Reading, Pennsylvania - two hours inland. WNYC's Marianne McCune ...

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A group of Latino immigrants suing to get their citizenship applications processed in time for this year's presidential election have won an initial battle.

A federal judge yesterday agreed with the plaintiffs that the case must move forward at a faster-than-normal pace, so that there's time ...

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The plaintiff in this case was detained and kept under court supervision for over a year, but was never charged with a crime ...

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They say the agents violated their constitutional rights in early morning raids at their homes. They're being helped by Seton Hall Law School.

WNYC's Marianne ...

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A group of Latino immigrants adamant about voting in this year's presidential election is suing the federal government and immigration officials in New York for failing to process their citizenship applications in a timely manner.

Manuel Martinez has been living and working in the U.S. for ...

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REPORTER: Protesters chanting "no to war, yes to peace" marched in front of the Colombian Mission to the U.N. yesterday afternoon to raise their voices against the ongoing violent conflict between Colombia’s government, pro-government paramilitary groups and the FARC rebels.

Through a bullhorn, Carlos Salamanca told ...

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REPORTER: Students and faculty at Seton Hall Law School in New Jersey are asking why a military spokesman says there are no videotapes of interrogations at Guantanamo when documents they've uncovered suggest there should be. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

For a couple years now, Professor Mark ...

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A lawsuit over the detention of Arab and Muslim immigrants after 9/11 had federal judges asking skeptical questions of both sides yesterday.

WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

The lawsuit accuses prison guards, wardens and top Washington officials of arresting the men on immigration charges and then holding them ...

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This morning, a panel of federal judges will consider whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft should be held accountable for the abuse of immigrants detained in Brooklyn after 9/11.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals will hear from attorneys on both sides in the largest of ...

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Every U.S. election is a test of how well our democracy is working and there are all sorts of measuring sticks.

But imagine you’re from Bhutan – where the government has been holding practice votes to prepare its citizens for their first election.

Or Kenya – where ...

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A few months ago, we sat down to Lentils and Cauliflower with a group of very pro-Hillary Pakistani immigrants in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. This week, WNYC's Marianne McCune returned to the Pakiza restaurant on Coney Island Avenue for a dose of current opinion ...

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Along a few blocks of Fulton Street in Brooklyn – where Clinton Hill and Bedford Stuyvesant meet - almost every other storefront has a Barack Obama sign in the window.

This area is one of several small enclaves of African immigrants around the city. About 45,000 ...

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A spate of robberies in the West Bronx has one group of residents saying the New York City Police Department has little control over their neighborhood. The crime victims are Mexican immigrants --and they say local gang members target them because they carry cash. WNYC's ...

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In Nairobi, rioters are tearing up the streets and more than 300 people have been killed in regional violence following the contested results of last week's presidential election

A group of Kenyan immigrants – mostly from New Jersey – were undeterred by the cold yesterday. They ...

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Among the many people on the move this busy holiday weekend are Mexicans who live in the US and have plans to fly to Mexico for the holidays. But, as WNYC's Marianne McCune reports, some are finding it difficult to board their flights, because new ...