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Victor Manuel Ramos

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Journalist and writer; rearranger of words. On the editing staff at @nytimes | Periodista y escritor; arreglador de palabras. También sueño en español.
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Asylum-seekers may have tougher time getting into U.S.

Asylum-seekers may have tougher time getting into U.S.

Newsday — Four young men from an MS-13 clique intercepted Alicia on a desolate dust road near a coffee plantation, outside the neighborhood where her family lived in Santa Ana, El Salvador. They were angry that she was headed to work at a market in territory claimed by the rival Calle 18 gang, after they had decreed that no one should go there.
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She thought his deportation ended their story. It didn't.

She thought his deportation ended their story. It didn't.

Newsday — The ICE agents, wearing vests emblazoned with the word “POLICE,” arrived when the couple were heading out to buy groceries.
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From a bad morning at school to ICE detention

From a bad morning at school to ICE detention

Newsday — When he arrived late to school that day, F.E. said, a security guard stopped him in a hall because “he thought I was cutting classes.” The guard searched his book bag and found “a piece of paper from a homework where I had written 503,” the area code for El Salvador.
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Trump immigration policy drives LIers further into shadows

Trump immigration policy drives LIers further into shadows

Newsday — Fearing deportation, a Guatemalan cleaning woman in the country illegally has taught her children to go quiet when they hear a knock on the door at their Hempstead apartment. Under a policy enacted by President Donald Trump, federal agents looking for immigrants wanted for serious crimes could arrest and deport her, too.
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At 14, MS-13 became his family. Here's how he got out.

At 14, MS-13 became his family. Here's how he got out.

Newsday — Edwin recalled the afternoon in 2005 when he decided to join the MS-13 gang as a personal low point. He was 14, recently arrived on Long Island, and hating his life. A group of boys who belonged to the SWP gang had been harassing him in the hallways, cafeteria and locker rooms at Turtle Hook Middle School in Uniondale.
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DACA uncertainty: Young immigrants in limbo

DACA uncertainty: Young immigrants in limbo

Newsday — For more than a half-million young immigrants nationwide protected from deportation under a controversial program known as DACA, the date March 5 has been a big "X" on the calendar through six months of vitriolic political debate and legal wrangling.
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Jail has pact with feds for immigration detainees

Jail has pact with feds for immigration detainees

Newsday — Suffolk County has a new agreement in place with the federal government to use part of the county jail in Riverhead to house immigrants facing deportation, records show.
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Haitians on LI under protected status worry for future

Haitians on LI under protected status worry for future

Newsday — All of a sudden the walls were shaking. Stephane Rony Casseus was doing his algebra homework when it happened. The house seemed on the verge of cracking to pieces. His twin sister and a maid ran outside. His grandmother got on her knees to pray, and he cajoled her to get up and come with him.
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Policy on detaining immigrant inmates changed

Policy on detaining immigrant inmates changed

Newsday — The Suffolk County sheriff no longer will ask for a judge's order before detaining immigrant inmates wanted by federal agents for deportation - a policy reversal that distances the county from the ranks of so-called "sanctuary cities."
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Dreamers fear for what's ahead under Trump

Dreamers fear for what's ahead under Trump

Newsday — Life has been looking up for Brentwood resident Yasser Ventura since 2012, when he was granted permission to stay in the United States under an executive action issued by President Barack Obama that has protected more than 741,000 young immigrants nationwide from deportation.
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Number of kids who illegally entered U.S. up

Number of kids who illegally entered U.S. up

Newsday — The number of Central American children illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico and coming to Long Island is rising again after a decline last year, federal statistics show.
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After Obama immigration plan ruling, deportation fears return

After Obama immigration plan ruling, deportation fears return

Newsday — In the 15 years since Jose Garcia crossed the border into the United States as a teenager, he made a life for himself on Long Island that he doesn't want to give up.
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Feds: Over 2,000 unaccompanied immigrant minors arrived on Long Island this year - Newsday

Feds: Over 2,000 unaccompanied immigrant minors arrived on Long Island this year - Newsday

Newsday — More unaccompanied minors who crossed the border illegally into the United States are living in Long Island homes than anywhere else in the tristate area, the latest government figures show. The 2,200-plus boys and girls, ages 17 and younger, have been released from federal custody in the first seven months of 2014 to live with parents, other relatives or sponsors in Nassau and Suffolk counties -- placing Long Island third nationally for the number of children released to sponsors this year, after the Washington, D.C., and Houston areas.
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Feds pay Long Island nonprofit to house immigrant kids

Feds pay Long Island nonprofit to house immigrant kids

Newsday — Immigrant children from the influx of unaccompanied minors at the United States' border with Mexico are being sent to a Long Island nonprofit that runs shelters for children and has its main housing complex in Syosset, records from the national Administration for Children and Families show. The federal agency, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, issued $4.1 million in three payments since last year to MercyFirst -- a social service agency founded as an orphanage by the Sisters of Mercy in 1894 that houses and assists abused and neglected children.
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Safety quest brings minors across borders

Safety quest brings minors across borders

Newsday — Fifteen-year-old Saúl Martínez says he walked, rode small buses, hid in houses with other immigrants and endured a long haul in a dark, steamy trailer, crossing international borders to flee the dangers of an urban area in El Salvador and reach the arms of his mother and sisters on Long Island. All he knew two months ago when he left Colonia Belén with the hope of joining his family in Brentwood, he said, was that he had to get away from maras, criminal gangs terrorizing his neighborhood and looking to recruit boys. "I didn't want to be involved in that bad deal," Martínez said in Spanish.
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Brentwood residents near Roberto Clemente Park fear for their futures

Brentwood residents near Roberto Clemente Park fear for their futures

Newsday — People who live around Roberto Clemente Park in Brentwood are angry and worried that the 50,000 tons of hazardous waste, including asbestos, heavy metals and pesticides, that were dumped in their community could make them and their children ill. Beyond health concerns, homeowners in a hamlet where roughly seven of every 10 residents are Hispanic fear that the dumping in the Islip Town-owned park will leave them with houses they can't sell. Closed since April, its gates chained and locked, the park is to these residents a symbol of a wounded community. They say they saw "truck after truck" dump dirt and debris on their fields.
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Displaced by Sandy, LI renters long for home

Displaced by Sandy, LI renters long for home

Newsday — Long Island renters displaced by superstorm Sandy, facing a lack of available housing and rising costs, are increasingly desperate to find stable places to live 17 months after the storm -- and to avoid eviction or even homelessness. The disaster left these storm victims -- in many cases residents with little to spare -- competing for housing with one another and with flooded-out homeowners, further straining a rental market in Nassau and Suffolk counties that lacks affordable options. The tally of damaged rental units from that terrible night in October 2012, plus tropical storms Irene and Lee in 2011, rose to nearly 9,000 on Long Island alone, government figures show.
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Amid immigration debate, online project aims to humanize issue

Amid immigration debate, online project aims to humanize issue

Newsday — "There are these beautiful poignant stories and there has to be a way for all Americans to share these stories and to be able to connect all the dots," said Maryann Sinclair Slutsky, director of Long Island Wins in Old Westbury.
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Immigrants joining Long Island's pool of political power

Immigrants joining Long Island's pool of political power

Newsday — Candidates from recent immigrant and ethnic communities are starting to assert themselves as a political force across Long Island. More than a dozen residents with backgrounds in El Salvador, Haiti and South Asia ran for office in this month's local elections. In some contests, they ran against each other. Many were underdogs. But three first-time candidates were elected and two incumbents easily retained their seats. Community advocates said it was only a matter of time, in the natural battlefield of politics, for new voices to emerge from the region's immigrant and ethnic communities.
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South Shore shows surge in post-Sandy construction

South Shore shows surge in post-Sandy construction

Newsday — South Shore communities wrecked by superstorm Sandy are starting to rise again. Homeowners are combining insurance payments or federal aid with personal savings and loans to repair or rebuild their homes. The threat of more devastation from future storms is overridden by the economics of Long Island's real estate market and homeowners' refusal to abandon a lifestyle by the sea. Building permit data, obtained through Freedom of Information Law requests from local governments, shows growing momentum toward repairing and rebuilding as the anniversary of the Oct. 29 storm approaches. Homeowners, contractors and local officials confirm the spike in construction.
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Land of opportunity: LI immigrants speak out on pending legislation

Land of opportunity: LI immigrants speak out on pending legislation

Newsday — The voices of immigrants at the center of the policy debate are sometimes drowned out by the policy fight. When they speak, as Long Island immigrants ranging from a migrant worker to an advanced-degree student did recently, the common theme they evoke is opportunity.
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New pope 'an inspiration' to LI Hispanics

New pope 'an inspiration' to LI Hispanics

Newsday — While the new pope is not from one of the countries that contribute the most immigrants to the United States, the selection of Papa Francisco -- as Pope Francis is known in Spanish -- was seen by Flores and other area Hispanics as an affirmation of their place in the life of the church.
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West Beech Street a symbol of Long Beach recovery

West Beech Street a symbol of Long Beach recovery

Newsday — Long Beach's West Beech Street, a busy business strip near the sand and surf in this city of more than 33,000, remains a landscape of tattered shops that symbolizes the community's long road to recovery from Sandy.
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Sandy Hook victims Lauren Rousseau, Marie Murphy, Noah Pozner, Charlotte Bacon remembered

Sandy Hook victims Lauren Rousseau, Marie Murphy, Noah Pozner, Charlotte Bacon remembered

Newsday — Most of the lives lost in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting were those of children, who had every reason to hope for a bright future. They were precisely attending that rural school, in a idyllic New England town in Connecticut, because their parents wanted to give them the best life has to offer. And though their lives were short, they would be remembered by those who loved them -- and a nation in mourning for the killing of its innocent.
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