Astoria families protest border crisis
Picket outside Congresswoman’s offi ce seeks action to close detention centers
About 20 parents rallied outside Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney’s Astoria office on July 9 seeking action to close immigrant detention centers on the
U.S./Mexico border. Photo: Max Parrott/QNS
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BY MAX PARROTT
A group of about 20
parents, with strollers and
tots in tow, marched down
to Congresswoman Carolyn
Maloney’s office in Astoria
on July 9 as part of a national
campaign to protest the child
parent separation policies in
detention camps at the border.
The group, organized by
Hand in Hand, an advocacy
organization for domestic
workers, picked Maloney’s
office in spite of the fact that she
voted against the Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations
for Humanitarian Assistance
and Security at the Southern
Border Act, which the group
fears would be used to carry out
President Trump’s policies.
“As a parent it’s
unconscionable that this
is happening. When I drop
my kid off to daycare, it can
be really hard. So that this
can be done in the name of a
policy — with so much trauma
inf licted — it has to end,” said
Bhavana Nancherla, a Hand in
Hand member.
Hand in Hand, which is
affiliated with the National
Domestic Workers Alliance,
has been organizing playtime
actions across the city that aim
to emphasize their urgency in
BY MARK HALLUM
The automatic recount in the
Democratic primary for Queens
district attorney is finally
underway, as Board of Elections
workers began the tedious
process at about 10:15 a.m. on July
9 at their Middle Village facility.
The two top vote-getters in
the election – Borough President
Melinda Katz and public defender
Tiffany Cabán – are separated by
just 16 votes, with Katz having
taken the lead following last
week’s count of paper ballots.
She had overcome a 1,100-vote
deficit following the June 25
primary vote.
The city Board of Elections
expects the full manual recount
in Middle Village of over 93,000
ballots to take two to three weeks,
with the first day alone being
spent simply sorting ballot boxes
from reading machines into
separate zones.
About 50 people are at work
overseeing and executing the
meticulous process, which could
take several weeks to complete.
Shortly before the recount
began that morning, lawyers for
the Katz and Cabán campaigns
were in Queens Supreme Court
in Jamaica for a hearing on
Cabán’s lawsuit seeking to have
114 affidavit ballots counted. A
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