by | Oct 30, 2014 5:35 pm | Comments (5)
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An immigrant-rights activist crashed Michelle Obama’s party for Dan Malloy in New Haven Thursday — and ended up impressed with how the First Lady responded.
by | Oct 27, 2014 4:24 pm | Comments (4)
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Activists celebrated last month the news the grocery’s lease won’t be renewed.
Chung Cho intentionally employed undocumented workers to exploit their work and pay them less — or he is an immigrant himself who worked his way up from washing dishes and mopping floors to owning a business and providing jobs for other immigrants.
Continue reading ‘Gourmet Heaven Owner Seeks To Avoid Jail Time’
by and | Oct 14, 2014 8:15 am | Comments (1)
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Waldina Hernandez saw a picture of a hurtling freight train on a screen — and got a new view on the harrowing journey that brought her mother to America.
by | Oct 2, 2014 8:25 am | Comments (0)
Sandi Victorio said she endured unwanted advances from her boss at least twice a day. As she stood in the aisles of the clothing warehouse, she feared he would come by and try to grab her, touch her shoulder, or rub her back.
Continue reading ‘“We Don’t Want Someone To Go Through That”’
by | Sep 19, 2014 8:13 am | Comments (0)
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Nivia & Veronica Jimenez were each attacked in the past month.
Alberto Serrano (pictured) took a blow to the head from a guy with a bat, presumably as a target of a hate crime. Prisciliano Rodriguez was held up at gunpoint returning home from the grocery store with no patrol cops around. Juana Islas’ son was attacked by two people on bicycles and, Islas said, the police took a half hour to arrive.
by | Sep 4, 2014 3:43 pm | Comments (4)
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Activists celebrate Thursday outside Gourmet Heaven.
New Haven business owners who steal wages from immigrant employees could soon find a police officer at their door.
Continue reading ‘Activists, Cops Craft Plan To Combat Wage Theft’
by | Aug 6, 2014 4:29 pm | Comments (3)
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Jose Luis Piscil got in an argument with his cousin over the security deposit for an apartment he rented. Two years later he’s fighting to stay in this country with his family.
by | Jul 29, 2014 4:23 pm | Comments (7)
The governor did right by refusing to house immigrant child refugees — in the view of a campaign challenger from the Tea Party movement.
Continue reading ‘Opponent Praises Malloy’s Immigration Move’
by | Jul 25, 2014 4:44 pm | Comments (3)
Mayor Toni Harp spoke by phone Friday with nine of her counterparts, who agreed to prepare a joint plan to present the governor with possible small sites to house some of the children crossing the U.S. border.
Continue reading ‘Mayors Agree To Prepare Joint Plan For Child Refugees’
by | Jul 23, 2014 8:01 am | Comments (18)
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Organizer Lugo addresses crowd outside ex-Gateway campus.
“Governor, no more excuses!”
by | Jul 21, 2014 5:04 pm | Comments (17)
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Reyes: City wants to help.
As New Haven’s mayor consulted her counterparts in other cities on a potential plan to house thousands of immigrant children, activists scheduled a rally by a building they say could handle the job.
by | Jul 11, 2014 8:06 am | Comments (15)
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Cross student Carlos Ventura Escalante tells his story at the rally.
Placard-wielding protesters filled the front steps of New Haven’s federal court building to spread a message: The unaccompanied children coming over the Mexican border aren’t freeloaders; they’re refugees.
by | Jun 30, 2014 3:03 pm | Comments (2)
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Nearly a year after heading off to Fairfield University as first-generation college students, Solanlly Canas and Chastity Berrios met up back on New Haven Green. They returned home not as dropouts, but as rising sophomores who defied the odds.
by | Jun 24, 2014 8:26 am | Comments (2)
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First-generation high school graduate Melesio Rodriguez turned his tassel Monday night as he set off for a new challenge at Southern Connecticut State University — avoiding crippling debt in the process.
Continue reading ‘The Road From Graduation To College: Paved With Financial Choices’
by | Jun 9, 2014 5:33 pm | Comments (0)
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New Haven cabbie Segundo Aguayza will no longer have to race home to try to protect his family now that East Haven police have agreed to official policies that are even more immigrant-friendly than New Haven’s.
Continue reading ‘$450K Settlement Buys Latinos Peace Of Mind’
by | Jun 6, 2014 11:35 am | Comments (3)
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James Kok arrived in New Haven as a refugee from South Sudan, without knowing a word of English or ever having attended school. After a long road with many obstacles, he walked on stage with a cap and gown.
by | May 9, 2014 4:21 pm | Comments (3)
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NEW YORK — Six years after leaving public housing in Westville Manor, Toddchelle Young prepared to wrap up a master’s degree at Columbia — by leading a lesson on a groundbreaking immigration policy hatched in her hometown.
by | May 1, 2014 3:54 pm | Comments (1)
New Haven state Sen. Gary Holder-Winfield spent May Day, the international workers holiday, at work — shepherding to passage a bill to protect workers’ rights.
by | Apr 28, 2014 6:37 pm | Comments (3)
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Police investigators compare notes at the scene.
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Boubacar Diallo rebuilt his business after a 2007 fire.
Jeremy Lewis stopped by New Haven Furniture Plus Monday afternoon to see if the owner needed help. The owner did — but not the kind of help he sometimes pays Lewis to perform.
The owner needed an ambulance. Someone had just shot him in an apparent robbery.
Continue reading ‘Senegalese Immigrant Shot In Apparent Robbery’
by | Mar 2, 2014 11:09 am | Comments (2)
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What a difference a week makes.
by | Feb 26, 2014 3:44 pm | Comments (3)
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Julio Oliver (left), a former Gourmet Heaven employee, called for fairness, not a store closing.
Police, lawmakers and the state labor department delivered a simple message to city businesses Wednesday afternoon: Play fair, or pay the price.
Continue reading ‘G-Heav Arrests Prompt Warning To Employers’
by | Feb 26, 2014 12:47 pm | Comments (0)
Yale law students notched another success in their battle against a federal immigration agency Wednesday, when the government agreed to drop deportation proceedings against two immigrants.
by | Feb 26, 2014 9:14 am | Comments (0)
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Reid with Yale law students Conchita Cruz and Ruth Swift.
Mark Reid walked out of jail Tuesday with three tasks ahead of him: Rebuild his life, fight deportation proceedings against him, and help make sure others aren’t held for over a year without a bond hearing, the way he was.
by | Feb 11, 2014 5:53 pm | Comments (0)
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Since he was taken into custody in November 2012 by immigration agents, New Havener Mark Reid has been fighting for his release. As of this week, dozens of other detainees can join his fight.
by | Feb 3, 2014 3:01 pm | Comments (3)
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Marin with his partner Bianca and their son ALejandro.
The feds came to East Haven to force the town to stop harassing and beating and falsely intimidating immigrants like New Haven activist Edgar Javier Marin. The feds also came to town to deport Marin.
“The feds” are two different agencies — the Department of Justice and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Monday afternoon, New Haven immigrant-rights activists plan another trek to East Haven to protest a new move by ICE to detain and potentially deport Marin.
Continue reading ‘1 Fed Agency Swept In To Help Victim, 1 To Detain Him’