How Sunset Park is using information to combat ICE raids
In the wake of a series of raids on undocumented immigrants across the borough, one Brooklyn neighborhood with a high population of foreign-born residents is taking a more proactive approach to arming immigrants directly with the information to access emergency services.
More than a dozen pro-immigrant agencies, legal aid organizations and community leaders converged on Sunset Park Thursday night to publicize their rapid response resources in an effort to consolidate information in one place for the community.
Sunset Park has been the most-targeted area across the city in the past six days for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, making up half of the eight so-far confirmed raids across the city. More than 47 percent of residents are foreign-born in Community District 7, which encompasses both Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace. Forty-eight percent identify as having limited English proficiency, and 73 percent identified as Asian or Hispanic, according to data from the New York City Planning Department.