Amir Khafagy

Amir Khafagy is an award-winning New York City-based journalist. He is currently a Report for America corps member with Documented. Much of Amir's beat explores the intersections of labor, race, class, and immigration.

Undocumented Clean Up Workers Are The "Forgotten Heroes" of 9/11 Attack

Labor Street Vendors

Street Vendors Occupy Corona Plaza to Protest NYC Crackdown

Labor Street Vendors

Street Vendors Fight for Public Space Outside Hudson Yards

New York Immigrant Communities

Immigrant Residents Move to Stop Coney Island Casino Bid

Swissport LaGuardia Airport Workers Announce Strike

Labor Street Vendors

Obscure Law Enables Herald Square’s Private Security to Issue Street Vendors Tickets

New York Immigrant Communities Politics

No Safe Bet: Immigrant Residents in Queens Say a Casino Will Harm Their Communities

Labor New York Immigrant Health Care News

Doctors Successfully Win Benefits at Two Queens Hospitals After Near Strike

Immigration Labor

Unions Fight to Include Wage Theft in U-Visa Program

Immigrant Workers Lead Strike Against Billionaire Catsimatidis

Immigrant Workers File National Complaints Against Employer's Intimidation Tactics

New York Immigrant Health Care News

Nursing Home 'Hell' is Hotbed of Drug Smuggling, Violence, Neglect and Theft

Labor Sex Workers

Despite Reforms, Sex Workers in New York Still Live in Fear of Arrest

Labor U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

New OSHA Rules Empower Immigrant Workers

Children & Education

Troubled ASA College Closed But Left Students Out In the Cold

Labor Taxicab Industry

Uber and Lyft Drivers Fight Back Against Accounts Being Randomly Deactivated

LaGuardia Airport Workers Claim Anti-Union Retaliation

New York City Council New York Immigrant Communities Politics

City Council Member Funnels Taxpayer Dollars to Anti-Abortion Clinic

Construction Labor

Mayor Eric Adams Budget Cuts Put Wage Theft Recovery Program In Jeopardy

Twitter May Have Broken City Law by Firing Its Cleaning Staff

New York Immigrant Communities

Twin Parks Fire Victims Claim That Donations Are Still Owed, a Year Later

Taxicab Industry

Immigrant Drivers Fined by New York TLC Police in Sting Operations

Ahead of the Holiday Travel Season, Immigrant Airport Workers Are in Crisis

A Year Later, New York’s First Farm Workers Union Struggles to Secure Its First Contract

After Construction Worker Falls to His Death, Advocates Pressure Hochul

Spectrum Workers Sue Their Former Union

New York Delivery Workers Call for Higher Minimum Wage

Home Health Care Workers Can Sue Their Bosses, Court Says

Labor Taxicab Industry

TLC Fines Rise 446% as Cab Drivers Struggle to Pay Medallion Debts

Children & Education

The Long Troubled ASA College Loses its Accreditation

Immigrant Workers Say Chipotle is Firing Them for Organizing

The MTA Says Immigrant Subway Cleaners are Not Entitled to Prevailing Wages

Los químicos que afectan la salud reproductiva de trabajadoras en los salones de manicura

Nail Salon Workers Say Proper Ventilation Can Protect Their Reproductive Health

Children & Education

For-Profit ASA College Deceived Immigrant Students, NYC Says

“At Any Moment Anybody Can Die”: Immigrant Construction Workers Fight for Safety

De Blasio Promised that the NYPD Would Stop Policing Street Vendors. Mayor Adams Has Reversed Course

U.S Open Workers Win Back Pay for Stolen Wages

Healthcare Worker Union is Fighting a Bill that Would End 24 Hour Shifts for Home Health Aides

U.S. Open Immigrant Workers Say Their Wages Were Stolen

Housing Immigration Migration

Migrants are Wrestling With the Complex Shelter System in NYC

Asylum New York Immigrant Communities

As Asylum Seekers Arrive in NYC, Many Struggle to Get on Their Feet

In the Summer Heat, UPS Warehouse Workers Endure Sweltering Working Conditions

纽约市打击非法轻便摩托车送餐工人称遭不公平针对

NYC's Crackdown on Illegal Dirt Bikes Curbs Delivery Workers

At Spectrum Cable, America's Longest Ongoing Strike Ended With Workers Unhappy

Feds Say Bloods Took Over Fire-Clean Up Company That Worked In Building Where Loot Went Missing

As New York's Legislative Session Ends, Several Pro-Worker Bills Are Left Behind

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