Immigrants in Queens are getting help navigating the criminal justice system with the creation of an immigrant affairs office.
“Queens County is the most ethnically diverse urban environment in America, with 47 percent of its 2.3 million population foreign born and nearly 140 different languages spoken here,” District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement. “As such, our office handles many cases annually in which members of immigrant communities are victimized—both by crimes of violence and crimes of financial exploitation. In some cases, immigrants are specifically targeted because they are immigrants.”
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