Deepti Hajela, Author at Valley News

FILE - In this July 16, 2019 file photo, people wait to apply for asylum in the United States along the border in Tijuana, Mexico. The American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday, July 30, 2019 that more than 900 children have been separated from their families at the border since a judge ordered last year that the practice be sharply curtailed. The ACLU says about one of every five children separated is under 5 years old. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Advocates: ‘Horrible deja vu’ in family separations

by Deepti Hajela Associated Press, and Sophia Tareen Associated PressJuly 31, 2019

NEW YORK — In the first couple of months after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration last year to stop separating most parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, the number of children sent to New York fell.Then, advocates say, the…

Screens in Times Square are black during a power outage, Saturday, July 13, 2019, in New York. Authorities were scrambling to restore electricity to Manhattan following a power outage that knocked out Times Square's towering electronic screens and darkened marquees in the theater district and left businesses without electricity, elevators stuck and subway cars stalled. (AP Photo/Michael Owens)

Calls for investigations after New York City power outage

by Deepti Hajela Associated PressJuly 14, 2019

FILE - In this March 29, 1989, file photo, Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei laughs while posing for a portrait in front of the Louvre glass pyramid, which he designed, in the museum's Napoleon Courtyard, prior to its inauguration in Paris. Pei, the globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre museum in Paris with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died at age 102, a spokesman confirmed Thursday, May 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Pierre Gleizes, File)

World-renowned architect I.M. Pei dies at 102

by Kathy McCormack Associated Press, and Deepti Hajela Associated PressMay 16, 2019

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, Salvadoran migrant Cesar Jobet, right, and Daniel Jeremias Cruz, hide from U.S. border agents, after they dug a hole in the sand under the border structure and crossed over to the U.S. side, in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico. The two youths were detected by U.S. border agents and ran back to the Mexican side. Some immigrant youth looking to start over in the United States after fleeing abusive homes are seeing their applications for green cards rejected because the Trump administration says they're too old. A program in place since 1990 has let young immigrants file paperwork before age 21. But the U.S. government says some of these immigrants are too old once they turn 18. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

Young Immigrants Seeking Refuge From Abuse Face Denials

by Amy Taxin Associated Press, and Deepti Hajela Associated PressJanuary 2, 2019

FILE - In this April 6, 2017, file photo, objects confiscated from passengers' carry-on luggage, including nunchucks, bottom, are displayed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. A federal court says New York's ban on nunchucks, the martial arts weapon made famous by Bruce Lee but prohibited in the state for decades, is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Court: Nunchucks Ban Is Unconstitutional

by Deepti Hajela Associated PressDecember 17, 2018

In this May 15, 2018 photo, filmmaker Li-Shin Yu discuss new PBS documentary "The Chinese Exclusion Act," during an interview, Tuesday May 15, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Film Examines Chinese Exclusion Act as U.S. Immigration ‘DNA’

by Deepti Hajela Associated PressMay 29, 2018

A sign on a side entrance informs worshippers that the mosque where Akayed Ullah, the accused Port Authority bomber, is temporarily closed, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, in the Kensington neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. The city's Bangladeshi community is concerned about what that could mean for their immigration future in a political climate where the attack is already being used by President Donald Trump and others as yet more reasons immigration needs to be restricted. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Bangladeshis Worry They’ll Pay Price for Subway Bomb

by Deepti Hajela Associated Press, and Verena Dobnik Associated PressDecember 16, 2017

Theo Galkin, 8, poses for a picture with his set of Harry Potter books at his home in South Orange, N.J., Wednesday, June 28, 2017. As the 20th anniversary of the initial publishing of the first Harry Potter book is celebrated this week, another generation is being introduced to Harry, Hogwarts and all the rest of the magical world created by author J.K. Rowling. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

20 Years of ‘Harry Potter’

by Deepti Hajela Associated PressJuly 1, 2017

This artist rendering provided by FXFOWLE Architects shows the historic Marine Air Terminal Building, foreground, at New York's LaGuardia Airport, and a proposed plan for connecting it to a new airport runway and terminal, center top on that would be built on the island that now houses the city's massive Rikers Island jail complex. A commission urging the city to close the jail complex proposed reusing the space to expand the airport, which last year had by far the highest rate of late-arriving flights of any of the nation's 29 biggest airports. (FXFOWLE Architects via AP)

Could Jail Spell Relief for Busy LaGuardia Airport?

by Deepti Hajela Associated Press, and David Koenig Associated PressApril 9, 2017

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 1967, file photo, the five Rockefeller Brothers pose for photos in New York as they gather to receive gold medals from the National Institute of social sciences. From left are: David Rockefeller, President of the Chase Manhattan Bank; Winthrop Rockefeller, Governor of Arkansas; Frank Pace, President of the NISS; John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation; Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York; and Laurence Rockefeller, a conservation adviser to President Johnson. David Rockefeller, the billionaire philanthropist who was the last of his generation in the famously philanthropic Rockefeller family died. David Rockefeller was 101 years old. (AP Photo/File)

David Rockefeller, Last of Generation in Family, Dies

by Deepti Hajela Associated PressMarch 26, 2017