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Ocasio-Cortez Hits Back At Trump, Calling Tweet 'Hallmark Language Of White Supremacists'
Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ongoing feud with President Donald Trump hit a new fever pitch after the commander-in-chief demanded an apology for several representatives’ “horrible and disgusting actions” following his weekend Twitter tirade. Trump targeted the so-called "Squad" of 2007 Yorktown High School grad Ocasio-Cortez and fellow first-year congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Presley, and Rashida Tlaib as the progressive members of Congress followed purported racist tweets from the president. Early on Sunday, July 14, Trump issued a series of tweets targeting t…
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Trump National In Westchester Fires Illegal Undocumented Workers During Border Wall Shutdown
About a dozen Latin American employees at the Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor lost their jobs after each worked there for more than a decade as managers knew they had phony documents but looked the other way, according to an investigative report by The Washington Post. The workers, some of whom won employee-of-the-month awards, were called in one-on-one and told the news on Friday, Jan. 18, amid the record 35-day government shutdown over President Trump's demand for a border wall, the report said. Some of those fired, who make up about half the club's winte…
Lifestyle
Irvington's Progressive Attitude, Striking Views Of Manhattan Cited In New York Times Profile
Another Westchester village has captured Big City headlines. In this New York Times profile titled, "A Walkable Village With Striking Manhattan Views," Irvington is described as a small town with a progressive attitude. "Irvington offers residents a sense of community and history — as well as proximity to the Hudson River," The New York Times wrote. Although Irvington is dotted with multimillion-dollar mansions, its roughly 6,500 residents are socioeconomically diverse. According to The Times, Irvington Mayor Brian Smith attributed this to the village’s housing mix …
Lifestyle
Irvington Facility With Migrant Kids Working To Find Separated Parents
Members of Abbott House in Westchester, which is housing migrant children that were separated from their families from the Mexican border amid the recently rescinded Trump administration “zero tolerance” policy, are working to reunite the separated parties in their care. Last week, elected officials in Irvington, led by Mayor Brian Smith, issued a joint statement on Friday on the migrant kids who are being housed at Abbott House off Route 9 (Broadway) in the village in Greenburgh as President Donald Trump continues to vacillate on his administration’s immigration policies. “The Irvington Bo…
Politics
Area Protests Among Hundreds In Nation Calling For End To Family Separation
Protesters turned out throughout the area and nation on Saturday to demand that the Trump administration reunite the divided families created by its “zero tolerance” immigration policy. Among the "Families Belong Together" rallies in the Hudson Valley were ones at the Federal Courthouse in White Plains and the Rockland County Courthouse. In Dutchess, a crowd of more than 200 attended a rally in Rhinebeck. Many of the protesters carried signs, among them" "Families Belong Together," "Separation Anxiety," "Nobody Puts Babies In A Cage," and "…
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'Disgust, Contempt' For Trump Policy In Irvington, Now Housing Migrant Kids
A Westchester children's facility in existence since 1963 is housing migrant children that were separated from their families from the Mexican border amid the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy. Elected officials in Irvington, led by Mayor Brian Smith, issued a joint statement on Friday on the migrant kids who are being housed at Abbott House off Route 9 (Broadway) in the village in Greenburgh as President Donald Trump continues to vacillate on his administration’s immigration policies. “The Irvington Board of Trustees joins many of you in our disgust and contempt for …
Politics
Immigration Crisis A 'Human Tragedy, Threat To Our Values,' Cuomo Says
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the Trump Administration’s "inhumane treatment of immigrant children has left a dark stain on the history of our nation." "It is a human tragedy and a threat to our values," the New Castle Democrat wrote in this op-ed in The New York Times. President Trump signed an executive order on June 20 rolling back his policy of separating parents from their children while claiming to solve a problem that was of his own creation. "But this order is no solution at all," Cuomo wrote. "It still leaves open the long-term detention of immigrant c…
Politics
See You In Court: Cuomo To Sue Trump Administration Over Child Separation
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has added fodder to the fire President Donald Trump has come under for his administration's “zero tolerance” policy of separating children from their families as they cross the Mexican border, vowing to file a lawsuit over the policy. On Tuesday, Cuomo announced that the state is planning to file a multi-agency lawsuit against the Trump Administration on the grounds that the federal government is violating the Constitutional rights of thousands of immigrant children and their parents who have been separated at the border, unless the policy is not rescinded in the n…
Politics
Lowey, Maloney Co-Sponsor Resolution To Censure Trump Over Alleged Comments
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-Harrison) and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-Cold Spring) are taking action following comments President Donald Trump reportedly made about Haitians and Africans.The two are co-sponsoring a resolution to censure President Donald Trump after he called African countries "s-holes" during a Jan. 11 meeting on immigration policy. Nearly 150 Democrats have co-sponsored the legislation. On Twitter, Trump denied making the comments while other reports say he might have said "s-house" countries. He also reportedly asked why we need more Haitians and that we shoul…
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