A group rallied to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday, but they\u2019re also a network of information, tracking and documenting reported ICE sightings in neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of these raids are causing so much fear and trauma in our communities,\u201d Luba Cortes of Make the Road New York said.<\/p>\n
Cortes said there\u2019s an uptick in ICE sightings across the city. That fear is increasingly visible in Corona, Queens, where they\u2019ve tallied the most enforcement.<\/p>\n
She said Corona Plaza, once filled with vendors, has thinned out as some immigrants stay away.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of the fear that police will collaborate with ICE, and that they get stopped for a ticket or something that the police would call ICE,\u201d Cortes said.<\/p>\n
City law already limits when the NYPD can cooperate with ICE.<\/p>\n
Dozens of people joined Monday\u2019s rally, including elected officials and people who came out simply to show support.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe families are being torn apart, and it breaks my heart,\u201d Forest Hills resident Dawn Berry said.<\/p>\n
The rally comes as the city let go dozens of Haitian employees with Temporary Protected Status, also known as TPS, after the program ended for them at the end of July.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to make sure that we only took this action at the point at which it was legally required to do so because it is not an action we would want to take in any which way or form,\u201d Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of fear, a lot of panic, but there\u2019s also a lot of empowerment because a lot of them already know their rights. So they\u2019re protecting each other,\u201d Tony Alaracon with Las Donas said.<\/p>\n
While the empty spaces back in Corona are easy to see, advocates said some effects of immigration enforcement are not.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, there\u2019s a lot of trauma going on. A lot of the families are being separated,\u201d Veronica Torrico, a psychologist, said.<\/p>\n
She said that uncertainty can show up differently in children.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of these children have a regression, and they stop talking, and there are a lot of delays with them,\u201d Torrico said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s one reason advocates said their work goes beyond tracking where immigration agents are to making sure families know what to do if they encounter them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group rallied to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday, but they\u2019re also a network of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[109,25,2301,388,9,24,12,63,87,122,124,123,27,200],"class_list":["post-318311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-immigration","tag-louis-finley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}