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There’s a notorious Nazi concentration camp guard living in New York City and ICE won’t deport him / Boing Boing
▻https://boingboing.net/2018/03/29/selective-enforcement.html

Jakiw Palij is a convicted Nazi war-criminal who helped train the force charged with murdering every Jew in Poland, guarded the Trawniki forced labor camp — where 6,000 prisoners were murdered in a single day — and was present at the “liquidation” of the Warsaw Ghetto. He’s lived in the USA since 1949, when he entered the country and lied about his Nazi past.

That lie was the basis of a 2004 immigration proceeding that resulted in his being stripped of US citizenship; the same judge issued a deportation order for Palij.

But at age 94, Palij remains in the USA, living in his home in Jackson Heights, Queens. ICE has failed to deport him because, they say, Ukraine, Poland and Germany have all refused to take him in, and it’s likely he will live out the rest of his days in the USA.

In the first three months of 2018, ICE deported 56,710 people, 46% of whom had not been convicted of any crime.

#nazis #USA #génocide

New Weapon in Day Laborers’ Fight Against Wage Theft: A Smartphone App - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/nyregion/new-weapon-in-day-laborers-fight-against-wage-theft-a-smartphone-app.html?_

Just past sunrise on 69th Street, near a No. 7 subway stop in Queens, men in backpacks and work boots gather in groups, many on their cellphones.

They are workers at one of the largest day laborer stops in New York City, hoping to be hired. Most are undocumented immigrants who have reported being cheated by employers. In the fight against wage theft, their phones could soon become their biggest allies.

After three years of planning, an immigrant rights group in Jackson Heights is set to start a smartphone app for day laborers, a new digital tool with many uses: Workers will be able to rate employers (think Yelp or Uber), log their hours and wages, take pictures of job sites and help identify, down to the color and make of a car, employers with a history of withholding wages. They will also be able to send instant alerts to other workers. The advocacy group will safeguard the information and work with lawyers to negotiate payment.

“It will change my life and my colleagues’ lives a good deal,” Omar Trinidad, a Mexican immigrant, said in Spanish through an interpreter. Mr. Trinidad is the lead organizer who helped develop the app.

#travail_précaire #sans_papier #salaire #résistance