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April 2019

Politics & Policy

  All of them live in legal limbo. And all of them live under the same roof. The matriarch, Mirna Portillo, 49, a Salvadoran who entered the country illegally 19 years ago, is losing her hair because of stress. After an earthquake hit El Salvador in 2001, the United States granted temporary protected status, known as TPS, to immigrants from the country already living here. Portillo was safe, for a while. But now TPS for El Salvadorans is going to expire in nine months. Hernán, her husband, who crossed in 1994, isn’t losing his hair from stress, but he is afraid of becoming

Bronx, Education, NY City Scene

When nine-year-old Fatima Ali is restless, and she has trouble falling asleep, she lays down in bed and spells out words in her head to help her get to sleep. She often does it alongside her mother, who isn’t a native English speaker and uses this bedside exercise to practice her pronunciation too. Mom tucks Ali in and gives her a word to spell, Ali sometimes corrects her, then spells the word out loud. Psychiatrist? P-s-y-c-h-i-a… until she dozes off. Ali, a fourth grader from P.S. 94 Kings College School, also used this nighttime activity to prepare for the district spelling

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  Sandy Coulter and her husband Madison Gross, 66, woke up ready to rally on Sunday. They prepared signs, wore their special white jockey hats and arrived at the Trump International Hotel before noon to see New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, kick off her 2020 presidential campaign. “We support anybody who f*cks Trump and nobody has done that harder than she has in the Senate,” said Coulter, who would not reveal her age. “I come with my wife,” her husband said, smiling and shrugging his shoulders. “NO! You like her a lot,” said Coulter to her husband. “He is the one who