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Bidney-Singewald, left, with New Haven Sister Cities President Shaundolyn Slaughter.
The cheese oozing out from that classic French pastry, those savory gougeres, was warm and plentiful. Tricolor flags flew from an 18-inch replica of the Eiffel Tower that towered over a fish bowl where people dropped their business cards. And “La Marseillaise” was on the people’s lips, along with traces of the fromage.
Workers examining the stop-work orders on Howe Street Monday.
The developer of a soon-to-open apartment-retail building at Chapel and Howe streets vowed to make “right” a slew of alleged labor violations — which he said the state might have cited in error.
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May 1, 2015 4:05 pm
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Demonstrators outside the restaurant Friday evening.
State Street’s mobster-themed Goodfellas Restaurant was hit Friday with a federal lawsuit by five former employees who accused them of continued wage theft and harassment.
Bhavana Chavada wore flowing red garments to her husband’s funeral instead of a traditional white sari, not yet ready to let him pass to the afterlife.
A rally against wage theft at the former Gourmet Heaven deli turned into a heated confrontation when a Yale representative showed up to vouch for the store’s new owner.
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Mar 10, 2015 1:04 pm
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The architect of President Obama’s immigration policy told a Fair Haven audience to prepare for changes to take effect despite a Texas judge’s decision that has stalled an order to protect millions of undocumented immigrants.
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Mar 2, 2015 1:35 pm
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A group of domestic workers visited City Hall not to clean, but to ask lawmakers to help clean up a mess: the abuse and exploitation many of them face from employers.
Elvira Gutierrez Vargas said her bosses robbed her of the Christmas tips she received after spending more than 50 hours each week cleaning houses throughout New Haven for minimum wage.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal visited New Haven’s subterranean Emergency Operations Center bunker to “sound the alarm” over a looming shutdown of the federal Department of Homeland Security — and to urge the Obama administration to rush to court to overturn a Texas judge’s ruling against its immigration policy.
The Southern Connecticut State University Fighting Owl T‑shirts hung big on the shoulders of (in the front row) little Samia Virga, Alberto Cosme, and Melanie Peralta.
A raid of alleged illegal apartments inside a former Dixwell factory Thursday unearthed a trove of headsets from China repackaged into Dr. Dre “Beats” and “Lg Tone+” headsets.
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Jan 26, 2015 12:12 pm
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“What would you like?” Shilmat Tessema asked as she lifted a warm container of food over her Lalibela truck’s countertop.
Thomas Breen stepped up to the chrome-and-yellow food truck that has become a beloved staple at Ingalls Rink, eyeing the steaming, thick portions of turmeric-kissed cabbage, gleaming, wilted green beans, spice-rubbed carrots, and clay-red lentils that he had been thinking of all week.
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Aliyya Swaby |
Jan 21, 2015 5:08 pm
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A new report shares little-known facts about New Haven’s immigrants: They are more likely than native-born citizens to be employed; an increasingly large number come from Asia; and only a small percentage is undocumented.
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Jan 21, 2015 1:05 pm
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Step into the Slifka Center and you’ll find a building buzzing with people who have come to socialize, study, worship, debate, and eat. From now until Feb. 22, winding around the building, you’ll also find No One Remembers Alone: Memory, Migration and the Making of an American Family, a sprawling, engrossing exhibit that follows the diverging paths of members of a Jewish family from Czarist Russia to new lives on three different continents.
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Jan 9, 2015 2:17 pm
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As Domingo Lopez Juarez shoveled a spatula-full of carne enchilada onto the grill in his new food truck, a smoky haze of jalapeno shot up his customers’ noses and into their lungs.
“Spicy,” Juarez said to a chorus of coughs, “is good for your health.”
New Haven State Senator Martin Looney told an immigrant success story — his family’s immigrant success story — to urge the state legislature to renew and redefine its commitment to expanding the American dream.
From left to right: Shahnan, Ahmad, Akbari, Samad, Noori.
Reza Noori risked his life working as a translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. Now a refugee living in New Haven, he faces a different battle — one he said he fights with little help.
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Dec 23, 2014 1:10 pm
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Quick as a blink, Sonia Salazar had the oyster shell open. She slid the opaque flesh into a shot glass — and a Barracuda oyster shooter was in progress.
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Dec 2, 2014 9:19 am
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Morales helps Armijos access his e-mail account at St. Rose.
Rafael Armijos needs to drive to and from his construction job. So he joined other undocumented immigrants flocking to St. Rose of Lima Church Monday to take advantage of a new state policy allowing them to apply for a driver’s license.
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Nov 21, 2014 9:08 am
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After minor charges triggered federal action, Jose Luis Piscil decided to sue immigration officials to stop the process of being sent back to Mexico following eight years in the U.S.
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Nov 7, 2014 8:07 am
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Jesslyn and Suidy Jimenez held up photos of their mother Gladys Jimenez Vasquez, currently detained in Houston, as they joined dozens of others rallying for executive action on immigration reform.
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Nov 4, 2014 8:03 am
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Cho, left, with attorney Leff.
Alejandro Rodriguez, having been stiffed by his boss, asked a judge not to let him off the hook. Some of his coworkers, concerned their market might close, argued for leniency.
