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Immigrants Cut Short, Walk Out
Carolina Sánchez at City Hall: "I want to continue." Committee Chair Jeanette Morrison (center): "I just want to make sure we're staying germane." Two dozen immigrant rights advocates walked out of a...
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Advocates Demand "Justice For Roya"
Rallying for "Justice For Roya!" in West Haven. Over two dozen New Haveners decamped to West Haven City Hall to celebrate the tragically short life of Roya Mohammadi — and to amp up pressure on police...
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Opinion: Let Immigrants Serve On City Boards
IRIS Executive Director Chris George. As director of a local refugee and immigrant service agency, IRIS, I have been following the New Haven alders’ discussions about revising the New Haven city...
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Immigrant "Bus" Pulls In To Mayoral Debate
Brennan, Goldenberg, and Mayor Elicker on the debate stage Thursday. Abddusabur: "If we're not prioritizing taking care of our own community, how the hell are we going to have housing for somebody...
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Alders Block Non-Citizens From Boards For Now
Alders Tyisha Walker-Myers, Sarah Miller, and Kim Edwards hear public testimony... ...as Unidad Latina en Acción activists like Nayeli Garcia protest stringent meeting rules. Alders dropped an effort...
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World Refugee Day Celebrated
World Refugee Day picnic. College Woods Park came alive with dance, food, and community last weekend as New Haveners gathered to celebrate World Refugee Day.
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ULA Marks 21 Years Of Immigrant Advocacy
Tijoux at Sunday's ULA event. Songs and art of hope and strength came to Bregamos Community Theater as international hip hop artist Ana Tijoux headlined an afternoon and evening of food, history, and...
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Havenly Honors Refugee Employers
Nieda Abbas encouraging guests to dig in at Tuesday's celebration. Local bakers, daycare leaders, and healthcare providers came together to celebrate the success of a downtown cafe’s efforts to get...
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In Fair Haven, Healthcare Expanders Dare To Dream
Juliana Garcia (center) at Fair Haven Health talk: "To what extent can I dream?" Juliana Garcia can still remember being nine years old, uninsured, and telling her mom that it really was ok for her to...
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IRIS Torch Passed
Next: Chris George and successor Maggie Mitchell Salem. Running a $12 million-a-year nonprofit with 138 staffers helping resettle 1,000 refugees a year is a big enough challenge.Add to that inheriting...
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Advocates To City: Be Bold Again On Immigrant Rights
Kica Matos: Time to lead again. Sixteen years after New Haven became the first city to issue a municipal ID card to city residents regardless of their citizenship status, advocates are calling on the...
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Fired Workers Protest Outside YNHH
Protesters plan to gather every Monday until YNHH agrees to meet with them. Three months after Yale New Haven Hospital’s cleaning contractor suddenly laid off nearly 50 of its mostly-Latino employees,...
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State Emails To City: "Report""Suspicious" Immigrant Marriages
Trish Clark: Now on leave for flagging 73 marriages in 3-month period to federal immigration authorities. State DPH associate Katie Sehi emailed this guidance to Clark in February. A state employee...
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Fearing Feds, Immigrants Ask For Protection
Norma Rodriguez-Reyes, who officiated Erika's wedding: "The day of a marriage is one of the happiest days in their lives." Three weeks after getting married, Erika found herself wondering whether her...
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Next Steps Weighed After Marriage Reports To Feds
Immigrant activists at a protest on Monday outside City Hall. What happens when a city official reports your marriage to immigration authorities?Immigration lawyers are working to make sense of that...
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In the wake of a state-spawned controversy over the reporting of New Haven marriages to federal immigration authorities, Gov. Ned Lamont declared that no “bureaucrat” should single out couples for...
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Immigrants Press Mayor For "Sanctuary" Law
At Tuesday's ULA-hosted meetup at 200 Orange. New Haveners who hail from Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Chile, Honduras, and elsewhere across Latin America gathered downtown to deliver a...
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Landlord-Boss Boots Injured Migrant Worker
Edgar Becerra in court: "I just want everyone to know the name of this company and all the injustices they did." Construction boss-landlord Mark DeFrancesco, right, in court with lawyer Josh Brown....
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Boss/Landlord Defends Booting Injured Worker
Mark DeFrancesco: I treated tenants/workers well. Mark DeFrancesco denied that he offered no beds to the 19 Guatemalan migrants working for him and living in one of his houses.He denied that he...
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Migrant Workers' Eviction Stopped, For Now
Becerra and Arana: They beat the landlord in court. A landlord has to start all over again if he still wants to evict two of the Guatemalan temporary workers he brought to Fair Haven to work at his...
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