More than 1,330 days after first taking sanctuary at a downtown church, Nelson Pinos can return to his home and his family in the Annex with a small sigh of relief — now that the federal government has decided to temporarily stop trying to deport him to a country he hasn’t lived in for three decades.
As Sangeetha watched her two sons eat “Grab and Go” breakfasts in their current “home” — a Hamden hotel — she was looking ahead for a new place to live, not looking back.
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Natalie Kainz |
Jun 21, 2021 9:20 am
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Arabic salad, vegetable biryani, Sudanese white beans, and Afghani qabili palau were passed around Sunday to the beat of African drumming — and the tales of more than 35 refugees from eight countries who are now part of one community in New Haven.
Seven-plus years of work in childcare offered Cynthia Howard no cushion when divorce and surgery costs pushed her into homelessness.
She now has her own apartment again — thanks to her workplace’s efforts to break cycles of poverty in the childcare industry by providing free housing to employees.
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Thomas Breen |
May 18, 2021 12:14 pm
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Two years after first traveling from Guatemala to New Haven with little more than hope for better healthcare for her epileptic son, Lizeth Villalobos now has a work permit, a job, an apartment, and an ongoing asylum case.
She also has the support of a team of attorneys and case managers looking out for many local people in similar situations.
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Courtney Luciana |
May 1, 2021 11:14 pm
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Hundreds of social justice advocates turned out for a march and a rally on the Green Saturday to mark the annual celebration of International Workers Day, aka May Day.
The police have launched an internal investigation into another complaint involving a cop who had sex with a woman in Fair Haven whom he met on the job.
The officer has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
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Madison Hahamy |
Apr 26, 2021 8:50 am
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With singing, dancing, impassioned testimonies, and the support of multiple lawmakers, New Haven’s immigrant and workers’ rights group Semilla Collective hosted a rally supporting a state’s “HUSKY for Immigrants” bill.
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Madison Hahamy |
Apr 14, 2021 5:39 pm
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A tenant’s lack of awareness of rental assistance options, and her husband’s “pending immigration status,” led a housing judge to rule that they were ineligible for the CDC’s nationwide eviction moratorium and that they can now be evicted from their home.
A vaudeville theater becomes a church. A church becomes a parole office. An integrated boys’ swim club becomes a swim-focused nonprofit.
A group of dedicated ethnic historians sketched out these transformations and more neighborhood lore in what will eventually become an official Grand Avenue tour.
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Madison Hahamy |
Mar 23, 2021 9:35 am
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With chants of “cuando peleamos, ganamos” (“when we fight, we win”) and “¿Quién marchó, quién gritó, quién testificó? Nosotros” (“who marched, who yelled, who testified? Us”), activists made a plea not to forget the individuals who have lost their lives due to Covid-19.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 3, 2021 10:49 am
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Pages from journals are frozen in midair, as if caught in a photograph of them flying away in a windstorm. A figure emerges from a book, a look of concern on her face. A mirror captures the skyline of a city. They’re all part of a larger show and puppet theater piece called Sueños, by artist Anatar Marmol-Gagné, running in the project room at Artspace through March 20. Together, the elements combine wonder and gritty, emotional realism to tell a story about family chaos and the wrenching effects of immigration that make the political deeply personal.
From day one as president, Joe Biden steered U.S. immigration policy away from the xenophobic and harsh direction charted by his predecessor, Donald Trump.
“A very important marker is just the shift in tone and rhetoric. We’re no longer talking about people as if they are animals or insects” said Valeria Gomez, the William R. Davis teaching fellow at the University of Connecticut’s Asylum and Human Rights Clinic. “I think we can never go back to that.”
After taxes, utilities, repairs, and tens of thousands of dollars lost through unpaid rent amid the Covid-19 pandemic, landlord Galina Zalman said she made a total of $2,552 in 2020 — sending her to a food pantry as she struggles to keep three local rental properties afloat.
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Courtney Luciana |
Feb 4, 2021 10:59 am
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Fifty demonstrators organized by Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA) protested outside Unique Auto Sales at 392 East St. demanding repayment for a couple they claim were scammed out of $4,000 on a downpayment for a 2011 Dodge Ram.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 29, 2021 4:16 pm
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To make the lemon chicken at Ali Baba’s Kitchen, Jamshed Khalid started by cutting boneless chicken breasts into strips. He then marinated it, for at least 12 hours, in a blend of special spices.
I wondered what was in the blend.
“Should I tell you?” Khalid responded with a laugh. “No.”
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 14, 2021 12:34 pm
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“You never stop moving in the kitchen!” Ernesto García remarked as he sliced avocado, cooked tortillas, and directed employees.
Minutes later, one golden arepa filled with black beans, plantains, avocado, tomato, and crispy mozzarella lay plated on the bar of Rubamba, García’s High Street restaurant.
Nieda Abbas served up a falafel unlike any I’d ever tasted before: one bite electric with acidity and flavor, the next comforting with nutty falafel and warm flatbread.
New Haven student Jhoaell Ruiz wants police officers out of school buildings. Ruiz’s mother, Sonya-Marie Atkinson, wants them in there.
Both student and parent argued their perspectives not just at home, but at a Tuesday evening forum on the subject held by the New Haven Board of Education’s School Security Taskforce.
Taco truck owner Carlos Rodriguez is further along the way to converting a vacant city-owned lot into a commercial kitchen with apartments on top after clearing a legislative hurdle.