Six-year-old Dayra is a student at PS 89, the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers in Queens. She had been preparing to return there in the fall.

Local officials are speaking out after a 6-year-old student in Queens and her mother were detained by ICE and deported to Ecuador. A joint statement was released by Assembly Member Catalina Cruz and Council Member Shekar Krishnan that reads in part,

An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York was "completely preventable," civil rights attorney Ben Crump says.

There are now 108 confirmed cases of the potentially deadly form of pneumonia in Harlem since late July, NYC officials said.