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Today Harlem Congressman Adriano Espaillat issued the following statement calling for the immediate resignation of New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) top official, Meera Joshi following a number of suicide deaths of NYC taxi drivers.

Democratic congressional members from New Jersey and New York met Sunday with immigration detainees separated from children at the southwest border, and said they will introduce legislation Tuesday to change the policy.

A group of Democratic lawmakers visited an immigrant detention facility in New Jersey on Father’s Day to speak with asylum-seekers who have been separated from their families under a new Trump administration policy.

A contingent of Democratic lawmakers made a Father’s Day visit to a detention center in New Jersey to meet with men seeking asylum who have been separated from their families because of President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy toward immigrants.

The shooting of an unarmed Guatemalan immigrant by a U.S. Border Patrol agent has some lawmakers in Congress pushing to bring technology typically reserved for local law enforcement to the U.S.-Mexico border: body cameras.