14th amendment

Top left: WAMC's Alexander Babbie speaking with newcomers Alexander Zúñiga and Vanesa Encarnación outside the Super8 motel in Rotterdam. Top right: Immigrant advocates in the city of Troy, NY display a banner that reads "sanctuary everywhere."
Bottom left: In July 2023 Rotterdam town councilman Joe Mastroianni posted video on social media of buses carrying migrants arriving under heavy security late at night at the Super8 Motel on Carman Road.
Bottom right: Venezuelan asylum-seekers outside Albany's Ramada Inn, May 2023.

News

Lawsuits filed to protect birthright citizenship after Trump’s executive order

Dave Lucas

22 states and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed lawsuits to block President Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship.

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump at January 2016 rally in Burlington VT

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Legal battles to follow Trump’s proposal ending birthright citizenship, which is in the Constitution

Dave Lucas

Under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, if you are born on U.S. soil, you automatically are a citizen. Now, President Donald Trump is looking to end that.

Hudson Valley News

Rep. Maloney Wants President Trump Out Now

Last Wednesday, Democratic New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney spoke with WAMC just hours after the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol. At the…

The Roundtable

Close Encounters With Music Presents Linda Hirshman & The Feminine Mystique At The Mount 5/14

Joe Donahue

Close Encounters with Music is presenting Linda Hirshman and The Feminine Mystique at The Mount in Lenox this coming Sunday at 3 p.m. It is part of their…