Marianne McCune

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Colombians vote in a run-off election Sunday and ex-pats can in New York can cast their votes in Queens and three other locations in the metro-area. In the first-round of the Presidential election in May, 15,000 Colombians in the New York area voted.

In recent weeks, ...

This weekend marks one year since elections in Iran brought thousands of Iranian citizensto the streets calling for change.

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This weekend marks one year since elections in Iran brought thousands of Iranian citizens into the streets to call for change. During the days that followed, the Iranian government responded with a brutal crackdown. Here in New York and across the U.S., many Iranian students ...

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New York City is sending a team of 12 emergency responders to help Haitian volunteers learn the tools of emergency relief. They will be teaching 400 residents of a tent city to learn some basics of fire prevention, search and rescue, first aid, evacuation, sheltering ...

As the Obama administration continues to step up immigration enforcement, advocates in New York and elsewhere are pushing harder for reforms that are more friendly to immigrants without legal papers. And with midterm elections coming, the debate is gaining intensity. People on both sides of the issue agree that the federal government has done too little to fix a broken immigration system. But the two camps have very different ideas about how to fix it.

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Immigrant rights groups are applauding Gov. David Paterson's decision to recommend pardons for legal immigrants who were convicted of minor crimes years ago and face deportation.

One immigrant advocate, Elizabeth OuYang, helped get a pardon earlier this year for a Chinese immigrant who did time as ...

Iran's president has told a United Nations nuclear conference that Tehran is not trying to build nuclear weapons, and that Washington can't be trusted.

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Iran's president has told a United Nations nuclear conference that Tehran is not trying to build nuclear weapons, and that Washington can't be trusted. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says states with nuclear weapons, like the U.S., just want to keep their monopoly on the technology.

Once again, Ahmadinejad's ...

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Yes, you were supposed to send in your Census form weeks ago –- if you haven’t already. But the Census Bureau will still accept them. This month, the bureau begins knocking on doors to get the answers it needs. And in case the ‘why it ...

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The New York Attorney General's office says it's keeping a close watch on rogue immigration consultants who claim to be helping Haitians apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which would allow them to work legally for at least 18 months.

Attorney Alphonso David says his team ...

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New York's Attorney General has shut down one of the state's largest providers of immigration services because it was defrauding customers.

The American Immigrant Federation (AIF) was charging exorbitant fees, giving misinformation, misfiling papers, and using non-lawyers. It had more than 20,000 clients.

It can be difficult ...

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This is the season of daffodils, St. Patrick's Day, Passover, and Easter -- but also the Haitian Vodou ceremony celebrating "Damballah." Damballah is a serpent spirit and his ceremony is usually quite joyful. With many Haitians still mourning victims of the earthquake, some Vodou priests ...

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On July First, all Puerto Rican birth certificates will become invalid. U.S. officials say many fraudulent applications for U.S. passports and social benefits use Puerto Rican birth certificates so the Puerto Rican government is requiring every one born on the island to apply for new ...

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On a radio show in New York, Governor Paterson made a surprising comment about immigration, when he responded to a caller on WOR complaining about the cost of educating immigrants who are living here illegally. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

REPORTER: Governor Paterson has in the past ...

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A lower Manhattan storefront that showcases products from Chile is holding a fundraiser for earthquake victims this evening. WNYC's Marianne McCune stopped by while workers were prepping for the event.

The place is called Puro Chile, which means "pure Chile," and they're expecting the Chilean ambassador ...

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Since the earthquake in Haiti, a slow trickle of Haitians have been looking for a way to restart their lives in and around New York. Some are citizens or green card holders who came on U.S. military evacuation flights. Some have come with U.S. citizen ...

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After the earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. and Haitian governments vowed to fast-track adoptions that were already in progress. But in the chaos of the aftermath, some of the children who were evacuated turned out not to have prospective parents -- or not even to ...

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Trained attorneys across the city are staffing free clinics to help Haitians take advantage of a new opportunity to get legal working papers. The Obama administration granted Haitians Temporary Protected Status following the earthquake. It will allow them to work legally in the U.S. and, ...

Since the earthquake devastated much of the Haitian capital nearly two weeks ago, the outpouring of support has been overwhelming, including from the medical community. Doctors from around the world have signed up to volunteer in the relief effort and now, there may actually be too many doctors in the country, with not enough nurses to provide the essential follow-up care.

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The U.S. government has promised to expedite immigration papers for Haitian children who were already in the process of being adopted, but some adoptive parents are learning "expedited" does not mean easy. WNYC’s Marianne McCune has more.

REPORTER: Yves-Merry Telemaque headed to Florida on Friday expecting ...