Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 4:42pm
In a visit to the Yale Law School on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff condemned a New Haven program that offers municipal identification cards to illegal immigrants, assailing the initiative as the wrong answer to a problem that falls under the purview of Congress. “Enabling people to break the law,” Chertoff told students in response to a...
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. joined a panel of speakers — including Sen. John Kerry ’66 — at the Boston State House on Monday in discussing what they described as the negative aftermath of the raids the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement has executed in cities across the Northeast over the last year. DeStefano — basing his...
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. will testify before a national immigration misconduct commission in Boston on Monday to speak on his experiences from last summer’s immigration raids in Fair Haven, which provoked an outcry from Latino leaders and supportive community members. The hearings will examine the personal, community and economic repercussions of immigration raids by...
New Haven got a boost Tuesday in its battle to keep private the personal information of Elm City Resident Card holders. Following a decision Tuesday by the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission that paved the way for them to intervene, the state Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and a New York City law firm have announced that they will...
In a time of ever-increasing college tuition costs, state lawmakers will debate — once again — whether Connecticut residents who are undocumented immigrants should be allowed to pay the same reduced in-state tuition as other residents. Last year, Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed a measure calling for such an expansion of the in-state cost after the bill passed...
On an icy Thursday afternoon, three federal agents in a Chevy uplander brimming with boxes of documents drive down Whalley Avenue. A U-Haul truck soon pulls up to the entrance of the Community Action Agency of New Haven, and frightened employees watch as more than a dozen agents burst through the front door marked with a scrap of yellow notebook paper reading “Agency...
In the week since the Community Watchdog Project distributed 7,500 anti-illegal-immigration leaflets in predominantly black neighborhoods in New Haven, an outcry from religious and political leaders has prompted city officials to look for ways to unite clashing community members. New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. organized a discussion Thursday with religious and...
More than a year before the “Shin-gate” scandal surfaced in the South Korean media, 56-year-old Ralph Cucciniello had already pulled a Shin Jeong-ah. Like the Korean art history professor at Dongguk University who scored exclusive jobs with the help of her allegedly fabricated degree from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cucciniello, too, falsified...
An e-mail acquired by the Associated Press on Saturday revealed that, one day before dozens of New Haven residents were arrested in federal immigrant raids last summer, local Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials notified the organization’s national director that the Board of Aldermen approved the Elm City Resident Card program. The June 5 e-mail, obtained...
San Francisco may have snagged national headlines with the creation of a municipal ID card last month, but New Haven, which pioneered a similar card in May, has not finished settling immigration business of its own. Gateway Community College on Wednesday released the results of a discussion on immigration that took place at the school in October — about two months...
At its annual conference in New Orleans on Thursday, the National League of Cities honored New Haven for its ground-breaking immigration policies — in particular, the creation of the Elm City Resident Card. The league selected New Haven from among 168 other cities in its population category as the gold winner of the Award for Municipal Excellence. As part of the award...
Efforts to provide identification for undocumented immigrants nationwide lurched forward and backwards yesterday. In anticipation of overwhelming opposition from New York legislators and courts, Gov. Eliot Spitzer last night said he plans to abandon a highly controversial proposal to issue driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. Meanwhile, San Francisco became...
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