And undocumented immigrants make up 5% of the city’s population ... before an influx of West African migrants, largely asylum-seekers, sought shelter in New York City last year.

At the same time, U.S. Census data showed a domestic exodus of nearly 121,000 New Yorkers relocating to other states.

The city was accused of unlawfully holding more than 20,000 people beyond their scheduled release dates between 1997 and 2012 ...

New York was once again a city of immigrants. It had not always been ... the Indian subcontinent, and central Africa, from China, Mexico, Greece, Turkey, and literally dozens of other countries ...

South African national Umar Farooq Ashraf, 18, is “a real deal” terrorist “without a doubt,” a Homeland Security source told ...

A Times reporter and photographer spent months with new arrivals as they navigated the city’s pop-up shelter system.

Frank Barker, 58, was brought to the United States as a legal resident from Barbados at the age of nine. After battling drug ...

York City Mayor Michael Helfrich vetoed an immigrant and refugee bill, stating it was the "wrong legislation at the wrong ...

The Chief of U.S. Border Patrol announced the arrest of a South African national who was initially detained and released in ...

New York was once again a city of immigrants. It had not always been ... the Indian subcontinent, and central Africa, from China, Mexico, Greece, Turkey, and literally dozens of other countries ...