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BxD’s Sarah Deri Oshiro Speaks with Telemundo About NYIFUP
BxD’s Sarah Deri Oshiro, managing director of the Immigration Practice speaks with Telemundo about the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project and our work to…
Live in a Poor Neighborhood? Better Be a Perfect Parent.
Powerful op-ed by BxD’s Emma Ketteringham in the New York Times about poverty and the child-protection system: “For more than a decade, my colleagues at the…
De Blasio: Turnstile Jumping Is ‘Not An Economic Issue’ For NYers Who Get Arrested
“All of our clients are indigent, many of them are trying to survive day by day. If they have five dollars on them, they need…
City Council To Force NYPD To Account For The Millions They Seize From Innocent NYers
“There has never been any vehicle for public accountability—the police department has vigorously resisted it. Finally, there will be some measure of accountability.”—Craig Levine, the…
Public defenders push more DAs to ease up on turnstile jumpers
“When you have entire households in the South Bronx surviving on less than $10,000 a year, the real crime is to continue punishing people who…
What Will Trump Do with Half a Million Backlogged Immigration Cases?
New Yorker writer Jonathan Blitzer visited BxD to speak with our client Christian Yarleque about his experience in immigration detention. Mr. Yarleque, a long-time New…
Haitian Asylum Seeker Freed in Landmark Bond Case
“The court has rightly recognized that low-income people should not be held in immigration detention with no end in sight while their case is pending,…
BxD Hosts Annual Celebration of Families
Last Friday, June 2, we hosted our annual Celebration of Families, welcoming 21 of our clients’ families to The Bronx Defenders’ Justice Campus for an…
Albany Lawmakers Reach Compromise on Faster Trials
WNYC reports on the recent compromise reached in Albany by the New York Senate Codes Committee regarding speedy trial reform. As Scott Levy, special counsel…
New York’s Mayor Junks Due Process
“As a former judge, I know firsthand the importance of having an attorney in court proceedings. Nonlawyers are rarely able to protect properly their own…