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  • Columnist and Editorial Writer, Newsday
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Nonfic: THE FABULIST; DASH, DRIVE, DELIVER (2027). Fiction: MARINE PARK. NY reporting all around. Fellow: @newamerica @nylawschool. mark.j.chiusano@gmail.com
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New York’s Subways Weren’t Built for This

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By Mark Chiusano Verified
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New York’s Subways Weren’t Built for This On a baking hot day in July, I took the 2 train to the 116th Street station at Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem. The station’s name shone from the wall on ocean-blue tile, along with glass mosaics of jazz musicians and civil rights leaders. The place looked, unsurprisingly, a little worn; paint was flaking around a gash in the subceiling and off some of the green platform columns, and the Langston Hughes mosaic panel was stained brown from dripping water.
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Rafael Rubio, City Council staffer detained by ICE, is freed after 5 months behind bars

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By Mark Chiusano Verified
| City & State NY Verified
In January, City Council staffer Rafael Rubio was detained by immigration authorities at an asylum appointment. For more than five months since then, he’s lived behind bars. He was a former lawyer from Venezuela with a stable job and no New York criminal history, yet now he was behind bars in Orange County and suffering. It took three weeks to get consistent access to his blood pressure medication, he says, so his hands were red and he felt like a heart attack was coming.
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Judge rules that Rafael Rubio, council staffer detained by ICE, should be sent to Venezuela

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By Mark Chiusano Verified
| City & State NY Verified
A brief touch of relief spread among New York City immigration advocates this week. A Bronx high school student was released from ICE custody, as was a Columbia protester who Mayor Zohran Mamdani had directly mentioned to President Donald Trump. Left with little to celebrate, however, was Rafael Rubio, the City Council staffer detained at a Long Island asylum appointment in January. On Wednesday, he was ordered removed to Venezuela.
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