The No. 7 subway line in NYC is one of the places where young immigrants are rallying for the DREAM Act today, according to organizers from Make the Road New York. Sen. Harry Reid is promising a test vote this week on the long-proposed legislation that would set out a legalization path for undocumented students. [...]

The College of New Rochelle Office of Mission and Identity will present a lecture by Rev. Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J. titled “The Holy Family’s Flight Into Egypt and Today’s Refugees” on Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. in Romita Auditorium in the Mooney Center on the Main Campus of the College. O’Donovan is president emeritus of [...]

The Day of the Dead, that macabre-but-also-festive tradition from Mexico, will be observed locally with displays and workshops at the the Pelham Art Center, New Rochelle Library and Hudson River Museum in Yonkers. The Pelham center is holding an art workshop Saturday, and the Yonkers museum has a day of events scheduled Sunday. The library’s [...]

Just a week before the 2010 midterm elections, it’s a fun time to visit the immigration page on PolitiFact.com, where several campaign statements have earned the “pants on fire” fact-check rating. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and her statements on desert beheadings are also in there, along with some exchanges between Sharron Angle and Sen. Harry [...]

A concert at the Paramount in Peekskill Saturday night aims to bring different cultural groups together in response to the brutal beating of an Ecuadorian immigrant in May. The lineup is designed to “get Peekskill to know Peekskill,” said songwriter and producer Alfredo Dueñas. “We have these ties that unite us, and we can grow [...]

John Coyne, an author who lives in Pelham, edits a busy website where Peace Corps volunteers come together to commune, gossip, critique each other’s writing, and talk about world events. Have a look at Peace Corps Worldwide and the related blogs. I wrote about the site for The Journal News. The site makes interesting reading [...]

You didn’t have to be Chilean to be riveted by the coverage of the ongoing mine rescue, but there was a special sort of pride today at places like Los Andes bakery in Sleepy Hollow. The bakery has been a gathering spot for local Chileans to talk about the amazing rescue of 33 miners who [...]

The village of Brewster’s code enforcer, a police officer until 2008, is accused of selling New York driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants for a high price. Marcela Rojas and Rob Ryser have the story today on LoHud.com. State police said they learned of the scheme from immigrants who bought the licenses. Robert Serino is facing [...]

Westchester County Republican Chairman Doug Colety has not responded to a call regarding Jim Russell’s candidacy against Rep. Nita Lowey, and Russell’s essay, unearthed by Politico, against interracial marriage and integration. State Republican Party spokesman Alex Carey said: “We certainly don’t support Jim’s viewpoints espoused in that article, and condemn all of his racist and [...]

Jim Russell has written against racial integration before in letters to the editor, though without the same detailed discussion of a “biological basis” as in the Occidental Quarterly. Here is a 1996 letter that ran in The Journal News (then known as Gannett Suburban Newspapers), responding to an article about the Yonkers desegregation case: The [...]