Hummer Bummer For Immigrant Cabbie
by | Feb 16, 2010 1:12 pm | Comments (2)
It turned into an annoying day for political refugee Komo Onivogui when another driver plowed an SUV into his Metro Taxi. But Onivogui has had bigger problems on his mind.
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Haitian Immigrant Makes Rescue Plea
by | Jan 29, 2010 8:58 am | Comments (16)
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Clerde Pierre asked a federal judge to save him from being sent back to his earthquake-stricken homeland. His Yale lawyers sought to make new law in order to help him.
Atticus Protested; Latino Worker Defends Boss
by | Jan 24, 2010 11:37 am | Comments (39)
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As protesters leafletted, Eloy Lira, a supervisor at Atticus Bookstore Cafe and a Mexican immigrant more fluent in Spanish than English, defended his boss from charges of discrimination over an English-only directive.
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Atticus Explains English-Only Rule
by | Jan 22, 2010 5:29 pm | Comments (10)
Responding to criticism about a new rule barring Spanish in the workplace, Atticus Bookstore and Café apologized for news reports but not for the policy.
Months After Hit & Run, Victim Leaves Hospital
by | Jan 7, 2010 1:05 pm | Comments (16)
Miguel Alvarado stepped out of his apartment to walk his girlfriend to her car. A passing truck driver slammed into him, sent him flying into a parked car, and drove off into the night. Two months later, he finally left Yale-New Haven — and police have no leads on the driver.
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Judge Orders State To Insure 4,800 Immigrants
by | Dec 21, 2009 4:03 pm | Comments (5)
(Updated) Like other legal immigrants, Mohammed Khondoker saw part of his American dream vanish — then reappear in time for the holidays.
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Feds To Probe Racial Profiling Claims
by | Dec 3, 2009 9:31 am | Comments (21)
Following an official racial-profiling complaint by a New Haven church, the U.S. Department of Justice has decided that police practices in East Haven deserve a closer look.
Immigration Lawyers Take The Fight To ICE
by | Oct 27, 2009 6:59 pm | Comments (15)
(Updated with text of lawsuit.) Ten New Haven residents are filing suit against the federal agents behind the 2007 New Haven immigration raids. They claim that their arrests were an unlawful retaliation for the city’s immigrant-friendly ID card program.
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Immigration Lawyer Presses Obama
by | Sep 10, 2009 2:43 pm | Comments (5)
President Obama announced in August that he will not pursue immigration reform this year. Mike Wishnie (pictured) felt let down.
Immigrant Advocates, Supremacists Clash
by | Aug 15, 2009 10:53 pm | Comments (70)
Violence flared in East Haven, as New Haven activists marching to protest alleged police racism tangled with out-of-state “white nationalists.”
Ecuadorian Pride Fills City Streets
by | Aug 10, 2009 7:49 am | Comments (12)
In an eruption of music, color, and dance, Ecuadorians paraded through downtown, celebrating the 200th anniversary of their country’s call for independence from Spain and the vibrant community growing here.
March Aims At Immigration Clampdown
by | Jul 29, 2009 7:48 am | Comments (72)
New Haven activists, angered that East Haven cops are allegedly calling the feds to deport Latinos rounded up at traffic stops, are planning a hundreds-strong cross-border protest.
ICE Cases Melt Away
by | Jun 8, 2009 7:36 am | Comments (11)
A judge has dismissed a case against four immigrants caught up in a controversial Fair Haven raid, saying the feds trampled on their rights.
Immigrants’ Rights March—The 2009 Version
by | May 4, 2009 7:49 am | Comments (4)
As she walked in a May Day march for immigrants’ rights Friday night in New Haven, this woman laid out a plan for immigration reform that would not only help her and the 12 million other folks in the U.S. without papers, but would also boost the U.S. economy.
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Routine Police Work? Or Retaliation?
by | May 1, 2009 7:55 am | Comments (56)
With a federal investigation looming of alleged cross-border racial profiling, East Haven police set up a checkpoint by a Latino bakery — and threatened again to snatch a camera when they were watched.
ICE To Return Bail Money
by | Apr 22, 2009 2:53 pm | Comments (1)
After ten months, multiple phone calls, and an official complaint to Washington D.C., the federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has agreed to give Father James Manship the $7,000 that it owes him.
Cops To Latinos: Talk To Us
by | Mar 26, 2009 8:06 am | Comments (6)
Looking out at nearly 100 Fair Haven Latinos, Officer Diego Quintero delivered a message from the New Haven’s police department, “We’re simply here to help you … We’re not here to report you to immigration.”
‘Crabs In A Basket’? Group Says No
by | Mar 25, 2009 8:24 am | Comments (25)
A crowd gathered in a leading black church to dispel a social doctrine: that the immigration issue must divide the Latino and African-American communities.
Priest’s Video Contradicts Police Report
by | Mar 12, 2009 3:53 pm | Comments (51)
Father James Manship released video footage Thursday that contradicts an East Haven police report justifying his arrest.
White Supremacists Pay A Visit
by | Mar 11, 2009 11:18 am | Comments (70)
Just days after they spoke out against alleged racial profiling of Latinos in East Haven, Luis Rodriguez and city priest Father James Manship discovered frightening flyers at their doorsteps.
City Priest Pleads Not Guilty
by | Mar 4, 2009 2:34 pm | Comments (50)
(Updated with police report) After making his first appearance in court since his arrest in East Haven, Father James Manship decried an “abuse of power” perpetrated by the East Haven police department.
Cross-Border Cops Arrest Father Jim
by | Mar 3, 2009 12:58 pm | Comments (75)
A city priest crossed into East Haven to document what he called systematic and sometimes violent police harassment of Latinos — only to find himself arrested and his camera confiscated.
ICE Agents Won’t Testify
by | Feb 16, 2009 7:15 am | Comments (1)
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will not testify in person after all to defend the constitutionality of their actions in the Fair Haven raids of June 2007.
Feds Return For Immigration Raid
by | Feb 3, 2009 3:14 pm | Comments (26)
Two local pastors were on their way out the door to pray with a family when they heard a knock.
ICE Agents To Testify
by | Jan 26, 2009 8:26 am | Comments (0)
Immigration Judge Michael Straus has ruled that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be asked to take the stand to defend their actions during their 2007 raid in Fair Haven.