Fi2W launches its project on the Census with a radio piece and a live conversation on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show on hard-to-reach immigrant households.

Activists in New York and other cities launch a campaign to ask the U.S. government to respect human rights in its immigration detention system.

Looking to pressure elected officials to act immediately on immigration reform, a group of New Yorkers set out on a road trip around the state.

Can traditional Polish music sound funky? Or Asian? Or bluesy? The members of the Warsaw Village Band think it can, but some Polish immigrants in New York beg to disagree.

Whether health care reform passes or dies in Congress does not make much of a difference to immigrants, says a report by two progressive organizations in New York.

Homeowners in Bushwick have seen home prices sink 45% in two years. Hopes for the neighborhood’s revitalization rest on the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2, but its benefits are uncertain.

After President Obama announced a $75 billion plan for homeowners in distress, shady companies started offering Bushwick residents help with their mortgage modifications… for a fee.

Subprime loans and costly refinancing proliferated in the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of Bushwick before the housing crisis. Now area families face the consequences.

The fire that killed five Guatemalans revealed features of the life of the undocumented: what it means not being able to go home and how deportation does not always mean permanent removal.

Some scammers are already preying on unwitting –or desperate– Haitian applicants seeking protected status.