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’
by | Dec 2, 2013 1:19 pm | Comments (2)
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Wilman Carrasco said he’s been mugged three times.
A version of this story originally appeared in La Voz. It was translated here by Gilah Benson-Tilsen.
In recent years, a new kind of crime has been gaining prevalence on the streets of New Haven, particularly in the Fair Haven area. Groups of muggers assault undocumented immigrants—especially from Mexico, Central America, and South America — to steal the money they’ve earned after working hard for long hours.
by | Oct 9, 2013 2:33 pm | Comments (5)
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Reveiz, Agnew & Corbett returning to Fair Haven Wednesday.
Latoya Agnew got arrested for the first time in her life. For her fellow protester John Lewis, it was arrest number 45, at least.
by | Oct 8, 2013 7:19 am | Comments (0)
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After trying to deport him for nearly a year, a federal immigration agency suddenly decided to let Josemaria Islas stay in the country, for at least a year.
by | Aug 1, 2013 4:36 pm | Comments (6)
In the name of immigration reform, New Haven’s Kica Matos sat down in a D.C. roadway and refused to move.
by | Jul 30, 2013 6:13 pm | Comments (3)
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Jimenez with his son Michael and daughter Flor.
Three years after being arrested for allegedly assaulting a cop, Luis Jimenez was found not guilty — for the third time.
Continue reading ‘For The Third Time, Immigrant Cleared In Cop-Attack Case’
by | Jul 22, 2013 8:00 am | Comments (2)
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Francis Santacroce has marched holding the American Flag “ever since I can remember.” He marched again Sunday, once again leading the Old World Traditional Procession to honor and celebrate the birth of Santa Maria Maddelana.
Continue reading ‘At 115, Santa Maria Maddelana Parade Marches On’
by | Jul 19, 2013 1:47 pm | Comments (0)
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A February protest on Islas’s behalf.
After concerted effort by activists and elected officials, New Haven’s Josemaria Islas prepared to walk out of a Massachusetts detention facility Friday afternoon, free from immigration enforcement custody for the first time in months.
by | Jun 28, 2013 3:26 pm | Comments (3)
The day after he and his colleagues passed an immigration reform bill, U.S. Sen. Dick Blumenthal returned to Fair Haven to thank the grassroots activists who started the movement and urge them to keep fighting on the next battleground: the House of Representatives.
Continue reading ‘Blumenthal: Keep Up The Immigration Fight’
by | Jun 11, 2013 2:48 pm | Comments (2)
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Leidy Carolina Baron gives thanks to Springs Learning Center.
For Leidy Carolina Baron, Springs Learning Center’s annual June celebration of the attendance and achievements of English as a Second Language (ESL) students was bittersweet.
The next day would mark her last class as a student at the Springs Learning Center, where she has gone every week for tutoring for the past decade – – almost as long as the center, which teaches practical English skills in free one-on-one lessons to about 112 students a year, has been open.
by | May 23, 2013 5:53 pm | Comments (2)
Three days after the feds arrested Josemaria Islas and began the process of sending him back to Mexico, the New Havener secured “a minor triumph.”
by | May 20, 2013 4:09 pm | Comments (0)
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The mayor pleaded on his behalf. So did a U.S. Congresswoman and two U.S. senators.
None that succeeded in stopping the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency from arresting New Haven Jose Maria Islas Monday and sending him to a Massachusetts lock-up en route to deporting him back to Mexico.
by | May 2, 2013 8:09 am | Comments (16)
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Labor Leader Bob Proto called it a “crime” that Congress has left immigration reform and a pathway to good jobs so broken for so long for so many. And local student Cinthia Perez declared “I am Mexican, undocumented, unapologetic, and unafraid.”
by | May 1, 2013 11:51 am | Comments (13)
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Charter counsel Mednick confers with Fishman.
Come January, an undocumented immigrant might be able to drive to City Hall with a legal license — and then take a seat on the zoning board or City Plan Commission when he gets there.
Continue reading ‘Charter May Allow Immigrants On Commissions’
by | Apr 21, 2013 1:02 am | Comments (11)
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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy.
(Updated) With immigration reform on the horizon, why not let an upstanding New Haven immigrant with no criminal record stay in the country?
Continue reading ‘DeLauro, Senators Take Up New Haven Immigrant’s Cause’
by | Apr 11, 2013 1:05 pm | Comments (0)
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While New Haveners marched on local streets for immigration reform this week, some other New Haveners brought the same call to the streets of the nation’s capital — in one case, in verse.
by | Apr 9, 2013 6:21 pm | Comments (4)
Forces on both sides of the national immigration debate hit the streets of New Haven. One side was arresting immigrants; the other was marching for reform.
Continue reading ‘ICE Rounds Up Immigrants; Reformers March’
by | Apr 2, 2013 3:13 pm | Comments (5)
While U.S. Congress sat in recess awaiting a major upcoming bill on immigration reform, activists stormed U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s office Tuesday morning to demand swift action.
by | Mar 29, 2013 4:15 pm | Comments (5)
Activists planted 179 small white crosses in the New Haven Green on Friday afternoon, representing the number of people found dead in the desert in one year, crossing the border from Mexico.
by | Mar 3, 2013 4:45 pm | Comments (2)
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The “Keeping Families Together” Express pulled into New Haven Sunday to rev up grassroots support for national immigration reform.
by | Mar 1, 2013 3:43 pm | Comments (17)
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Behind this anonymous door three floors above downtown New Haven, a Yale-affiliated shrink is paying local immigrants $150 to help the FBI sniff out liars when hunting terrorists.
Continue reading ‘Shhh: Terrorism Study’s Already In Full Swing’
by | Feb 22, 2013 5:55 pm | Comments (7)
As critics line up to denounce a planned new military special-ops research center relying on New Haven immigrants as test subjects, the idea of the center itself became shrouded in mystery worthy of … well, special ops.
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Military Research Center’
by | Feb 21, 2013 5:34 pm | Comments (13)
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Lugo: “We’re not lab rats.”
(Updated 7:28 p.m.) After an outcry from campus groups and New Haven immigration activists, Yale announced Thursday night that it will put on temporary hold plans to launch a Department of Defense-backed research center that would rely on local immigrants as military test subjects.
Continue reading ‘Yale Puts Controversial Military Project On Hold’
by | Feb 19, 2013 2:30 pm | Comments (4)
(Updated 1:42 p.m.) WIth the help of Yale law students, Sergio Brizuela has won a legal victory that means fewer immigrants like him will be handed over to the feds.