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Teacher Nataliya Braginsky talks through primary sources.
Alyssa Washington couldn’t stop thinking about the multi-colored map of New Haven on her classroom wall: the narrow green around Prospect Hill and Westville; the swathed yellow, like a waning moon, from Beaver Hills to City Point; the foreboding red around Dixwell and Fair Haven — each section of the city walled in by fixed black lines.
New Haven Mayor Toni Harp joined 87 of her colleagues nationwide in urging the Trump administration to rescind a Sept. 26 executive order that changes the country’s system for resettling refugees.
An all-star cast of New Haven musicians is heading to Goatville Sunday night to raise their voices — and money and consciousness — for New Haven’s ongoing quest to resettle refugees here.
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Nov 21, 2019 7:37 pm
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New Haven contingent outside Boston federal building.
BOSTON—“We’re with you,” about two dozen Wilbur Cross High School students cupped their hands and shouted to the top of a federal building in Boston, where their classmate was trying to convince an immigration judge to let him stay in this country.
New Haven’s Frank Carrano with Amalfi Mayor Daniele Milano.
With a documentary in tow about new lives in the U.S., we traveled from the heart of New Haven’s Italian-American community back home to Amalfi — where we saw immigrants’ stories in a new light.
That doesn’t mean any minds were changed about pizza.
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Nov 1, 2019 8:02 am
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Domar Shearer, Shaundrece Beckford at the People’s Center Thursday night. Below: ULA activists celebrate Shearer’s escape.
Six hours after hiding from federal agents, Domar Shearer savored his temporary freedom, marveled at the help he had received — and weighed his options as he headed into hiding.
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Oct 31, 2019 5:23 pm
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Activists escorted a 23-year-old Jamaican immigrant to New Haven Thursday evening after prevailing in a dramatic six-hour standoff against federal agents.
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Oct 18, 2019 9:21 pm
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Cross student Tayshalee Hernandez leads chants at Friday’s rally.
Which is the real threat to the public? An 18-year-old undocumented immigrant, known throughout his high school as a “bright student,” who was pulled over for driving erratically? Or the ICE agents who were waiting “to stalk and kidnap him” at his next his court date?
Vanesa Suarez, an organizer with the Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance (CIRA), said that a federal judge had given the wrong answers to those questions.
New Haven is rallying around a Wilbur Cross junior snapped up by federal immigration authorities and locked up in a Massachusetts detention center.
“Somehow,” Mayor Toni Harp vowed, “we’ll get him back.”
A rally is planned for Friday on behalf of the student, Mario Aguilar Castañon. At Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting, officials also pledged to help prevent his forced return to Guatemala.
State Attorney General William Tong has sued the the federal government to try to force it to recognize the legitimacy of state pardons used to block deportation orders.
Protesters rally for a sanctuary city law outside City Hall.
Several dozen immigrant rights rallied outside City Hall in support of the Board of Alders passing a sanctuary city law that would build on an executive order signed by the mayor this summer.
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Sep 20, 2019 1:03 pm
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Moshair Gameel, Amina Maniriho, and Jane Kinity.
Amina Maniriho stood laughing and dancing while the trees at the edges of the park reverberated with the Swahili lyrics of “Dunia Haina Hurumu” — the world has no mercy. Her seven children jumped and wove about the new friends she has made since she arrived seven months ago. Above her, a strong South wind whipped the American flag mounted on a tall white pole.
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Sep 10, 2019 3:42 pm
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Hayfaa Alabdullah and Imad Shaboo piiled into Jane Kinity’s Subaru Tuesday so they could exercise a right they said they couldn’t back in Iraq — voting for their elected officials.
Balmer Gonzalez with wife Maria Arce and son David.
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Balmer Gonzalez’s daughter-in-law after the paintball shooting.
Balmer Gonzalez was closing up shop at his Colombian restaurant in the Hill when a group of strangers rolled down their car window and sprayed him and his family with bullets.
So Gonzalez pulled a handgun from his back pocket and returned fire. And ended up arrested.
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Mayor Toni Harp announces executive order at rally.
Activists demand alders take next step.
A month after immigration activists heckled her at a rally, Mayor Toni Harp surprised them Wednesday night by announcing a new sanctuary-style executive order to protect the legal rights of the undocumented.
Activists praised the move — and called on the Board of Alders to take the next step by passing a law to make official New Haven’s status as a “sanctuary city.”
Eliza Vargas at an Ice The Beef anti-violence rallly.
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James Bhandary-Alexander address a worker rights rally. (At left: organizer John Lugo.)
James Bhandary-Alexander gets in the trenches with immigrant hotel housekeepers, building cleaners and Uber drivers to fight for decent pay and working conditions. Darrell Allick’s Ice The Beef gets in the trenches with young people in New Haven neighborhoods to save lives by stopping violence.
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Jul 2, 2019 3:34 pm
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Over 100 demonstrators flooded Elm Street outside U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s New Haven office Tuesday to protest the immigrant detention centers on the border.
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Jun 27, 2019 8:22 am
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Harp at the rally.
After facing heckling from protesters, Mayor Toni Harp agreed to meet with immigrant rights activists in support of passing a sanctuary city ordinance in New Haven.
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Jun 17, 2019 2:53 pm
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Customer Shelton Butler and Jahesh Maher.
When Jayesh Maher opens a new liquor store on State Street, the variety of wines and IPAs won’t be all that helps it stand out among 20-odd competitors in Hamden. Judging based on how he runs his other business now, Maher himself will be a part of the draw.
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Jun 15, 2019 10:02 pm
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Divine Mahoudi Sombi: “I wondered if high school in America was really like ‘High School Musical.’”
After a motivational keynote address from U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, Divine Mahoudi, 18, crossed the James Hillhouse High School graduation stage to receive her diploma after emigrating from central Africa only four years ago.
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May 13, 2019 8:33 pm
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Edith Carapia (right) and ULA organizer John Lugo.
Monday’s protest.
A former housekeeper at a Chapel Street hotel has filed two anti-discrimination complaints against her old employer for allegedly firing her for speaking out about years of workplace prejudice against Mexican employees.
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Mar 29, 2019 1:30 pm
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Faten Natafji, Nieda Mohammed Ali Abbas, Hala Ghali at work.
Katalina’s Bakery on Whitney Avenue has closed for the night. Three women, who do not bake for Katalina’s, are hard at work in the kitchen, oiling pans, grinding nuts, laying out translucent sheets of raw phyllo dough.
Tomorrow, servers around downtown New Haven will sell the sweet results, in the form of baklava.
