NEW ORLEANS — Vilma Palacios has been held at the Basile, Louisiana detention center since June, even though she says she was in the process of renewing her work permit. “I told him 'why am I under ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul says there are 32,000 jobs ready and waiting for the immigrants who have flooded New York in recent months — but an apparent bottleneck in the federal work permit approval process ...