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Clarion's Mariam Andino Pagán thanks a giveaway volunteer.
Supplies stored and distributed Wednesday in the Clarion basement.
Mariam Andino Pagán doesn’t earn enough money working at the Clarion Hotel to afford a place to sleep at night — but she did find clothing and supplies in the basement Wednesday, as a community rescue mission that began with a local fire expanded to more people in need.
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Feb 7, 2022 4:29 pm
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Parent Dilawar Shamshad at Clemente, where more than 10 percent of the student body is now Afghan.
When mother of four Zarghoona immigrated to New Haven from Afghanistan five years ago, she did not know any English.
She learned it with the help of her daughter, who was picking it up at Clemente Leadership Academy. Then Zarghoona returned to the school helping newer arrivals from her native land adjust to a new country, as an interpreter.
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Feb 2, 2022 12:46 pm
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Arrested Officer Christopher Troche and attorney Rosemarie Paine in state court Wednesday.
A New Haven police officer who was arrested for allegedly pressuring an undocumented 19-year-old Honduran immigrant to send him nude photographs and have sex with him in exchange for money entered a pro forma not guilty plea Wednesday — as state prosecutors and the officer’s defense attorney prepare to review a trove of evidence provided by the city police department.
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Dec 12, 2021 1:41 pm
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Arrested New Haven Police Officer Christopher Troche with attorney Rosemarie Paine in court on Friday.
The lawyer representing a New Haven police officer who has been arrested for allegedly pressuring an undocumented 19-year-old Honduran immigrant to send him nude photographs and have sex with him in exchange for money claimed that her client is innocent of the charge he is facing: that is, one count of soliciting a prostitute.
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Dec 3, 2021 12:15 pm
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Thursday night’s protest on Wolcott Street.
With cries of “No Más Violencia!” and “¿Qué Queremos? Justicia!” two dozen immigrant rights protesters took to Wolcott Street to demand an end to violence in Fair Haven — and to call on police to take their concerns seriously, regardless of their nation of origin or which language they speak.
Interim Chief Dominguez: “A very difficult time” for NHPD.
A city cop turned himself in for arrest Sunday on a charge related to an alleged sexual relationship with a 19-year-old undocumented Honduran immigrant he met after she called police for help — the third New Haven officer to be arrested in recent weeks, and the second officer to get into trouble for sexual misconduct in Fair Haven.
Movers haul donated furniture up to Scranton Street apartment for newly arriving Afghan family.
Javid Mohammadi, who received similar help when he moved here two years ago from Afghanistan, was part of the crew.
Three Afghan refugee families arrived overnight in New Haven and crammed into temporary lodgings with relatives, while a search continued for landlords willing to rent to a wave of newcomers.
The governor joined the head of New Haven’s refugee-resettlement agency Wednesday to urge landlords to make up to 100 apartments available, with a promise to cover the rent.
Nayeli Garcia (center) at Monday’s protest with Meg Fountain and Catherine John.
A mic held against her mask, Nayeli Garcia looked up through the rain at U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s office to let the New Haven Congresswoman — and everyone within earshot — know who she is.
I am a student at Gateway Community College, Garcia said. I am an essential worker who cleans houses. I am an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. And I deserve a path to citizenship.
Whether you’re looking for a snack to grab on the go or a slow-cooked meal to sit down and savor, two neighboring Hamden eateries have a common solution: empanadas.
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IRIS’s Chris George (right): “Would you leave your parents behind?”
Forty-five New Haven and West Haven residents remain trapped in Afghanistan, and are currently caught in an “agonizing” position: Do they find a way to get back to the United States while leaving their families behind, or do they stay in a country where they and their families are in constant danger?
A call went out Monday to help them get back home — and to help Connecticut prepare to resettle 1,000 new Afghan refugees through next summer.
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Aug 30, 2021 10:19 am
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Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman.
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NHPS Student Enrollment Count by Race/Ethnicity.
Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman are ready for the new school year to begin Monday: They have their vaccine shots, they’re even OK with wearing masks. And, after experiencing remote learning, they much prefer the idea of being back in class in person.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and deportation-defier Nelson Pinos found themselves standing beside each other again in the latest chapter in an ongoing quest to allow hard-working undocumented immigrants to remain in the country.
Munir Ahmed: Imagine “your country collapsing in front of your eyes.”
The latest news about desperate Afghans seeking to flee the Taliban isn’t an abstract story about strangers for Munir Ahmed. It’s about his parents and brothers.
Nelson Pinos outside First & Summerfield on Friday.
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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Jun 21, 2021 9:20 am
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Refugees and friends in East Rock Park Sunday.
Jane and Rahab Kinity at Sunday’s gathering.
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.
