New Haven Independent

Immigrant Tales | June 9, 2009

On The Human Rights Trail

by Staff | June 9, 2009 2:27 PM | Permalink

Fair Haven's Father Jim Manship blogged his recent trip to Tlaxcala, Mexico. Here's his first entry.

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Immigrant Tales | June 8, 2009

ICE Cases Melt Away

by Thomas MacMillan | June 8, 2009 7:36 AM | Permalink

A judge has dismissed a case against four immigrants caught up in a controversial Fair Haven raid, saying the feds trampled on their rights.

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Immigrant Tales | June 3, 2009

Play ... Cricket!

by Thomas MacMillan | June 3, 2009 1:54 PM | Permalink

Bats and balls came out of winter storage, and a sunny day found players happily engaged in the national pastime ... of Guyana.

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Immigrant Tales | May 14, 2009

Parents Rally To Save Parish School

by Thomas MacMillan | May 14, 2009 7:56 AM | Permalink

Roshele Then and Michele Cruz, suited up for a softball game, started to well up as they reflected on their time at St. Rose. Parents at the school are organizing to see if they can stop any further tears from being shed.

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Immigrant Tales | May 7, 2009

Supremes Scored

by Paul Bass | May 7, 2009 7:36 AM | Permalink

New Haven's Henry Fernandez lauds court decision on immigrant rights.

Immigrant Tales | May 4, 2009

Immigrants' Rights March -- The 2009 Version

by Melinda Tuhus | May 4, 2009 7:49 AM | Permalink

As she walked in a May Day march for immigrants' rights Friday night in New Haven, this woman laid out a plan for immigration reform that would not only help her and the 12 million other folks in the U.S. without papers, but would also boost the U.S. economy.

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Immigrant Tales | May 1, 2009

Routine Police Work? Or Retaliation?

by Thomas MacMillan | May 1, 2009 7:55 AM | Permalink

With a federal investigation looming of alleged cross-border racial profiling, East Haven police set up a checkpoint by a Latino bakery -- and threatened again to snatch a camera when they were watched.

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Immigrant Tales | April 22, 2009

ICE To Return Bail Money

by Thomas MacMillan | April 22, 2009 2:53 PM | Permalink

After ten months, multiple phone calls, and an official complaint to Washington D.C., the federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has agreed to give Father James Manship the $7,000 that it owes him.

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Immigrant Tales | April 7, 2009

The Virgin Chooses Spot In Shade

by Melissa Bailey | April 7, 2009 8:55 AM | Permalink

San Francisco Tetlanohcan, Mexico -- As their children worked and prayed far away in New Haven, families in this dusty Mexican village took to the streets to keep a local tradition alive.

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Immigrant Tales | March 26, 2009

Cops To Latinos: Talk To Us

by Thomas MacMillan | March 26, 2009 8:06 AM | Permalink

Looking out at nearly 100 Fair Haven Latinos, Officer Diego Quintero delivered a message from the New Haven's police department, "We're simply here to help you ... We're not here to report you to immigration."

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Immigrant Tales | March 25, 2009

'Crabs In A Basket'? Group Says No

by Thomas MacMillan | March 25, 2009 8:24 AM | Permalink

A crowd gathered in a leading black church to dispel a social doctrine: that the immigration issue must divide the Latino and African-American communities.

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Immigrant Tales | March 12, 2009

Priest's Video Contradicts Police Report

by Thomas MacMillan | March 12, 2009 3:53 PM | Permalink

Father James Manship released video footage Thursday that contradicts an East Haven police report justifying his arrest.

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Immigrant Tales | March 11, 2009

White Supremacists Pay A Visit

by Thomas MacMillan | March 11, 2009 11:18 AM | Permalink

Just days after they spoke out against alleged racial profiling of Latinos in East Haven, Luis Rodriguez and city priest Father James Manship discovered frightening flyers at their doorsteps.

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Immigrant Tales | March 4, 2009

City Priest Pleads Not Guilty

by Thomas MacMillan | March 4, 2009 2:34 PM | Permalink

(Updated with police report) After making his first appearance in court since his arrest in East Haven, Father James Manship decried an "abuse of power" perpetrated by the East Haven police department.

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Immigrant Tales | March 3, 2009

Cross-Border Cops Arrest Father Jim

by Thomas MacMillan | March 3, 2009 12:58 PM | Permalink

A city priest crossed into East Haven to document what he called systematic and sometimes violent police harassment of Latinos -- only to find himself arrested and his camera confiscated.

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Immigrant Tales | February 20, 2009

Soccer League Booted From Boulevard

by Melissa Bailey | February 20, 2009 4:04 PM | Permalink

Citing complaints of illegal parking, food vendors, and public drinking, the city has kicked an international-flavored men's soccer league off of the Boulevard fields.

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Immigrant Tales | February 16, 2009

ICE Agents Won't Testify

by Thomas MacMillan | February 16, 2009 7:15 AM | Permalink

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will not testify in person after all to defend the constitutionality of their actions in the Fair Haven raids of June 2007.

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Immigrant Tales | February 3, 2009

Feds Return For Immigration Raid

by Melissa Bailey | February 3, 2009 3:14 PM | Permalink

Two local pastors were on their way out the door to pray with a family when they heard a knock.

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Immigrant Tales | February 2, 2009

Let the Bank Have It, This Time

by Allan Appel | February 2, 2009 10:13 AM | Permalink

When an Ecuadorian businessman from Meriden came to New Haven for his first foray into buying a foreclosed property, he had no idea the house sat in the middle of a growing Ecuadorian community.

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Immigrant Tales | February 2, 2009

From "Hell," Iraqi Doc Runs To Hope

by Thomas MacMillan | February 2, 2009 8:39 AM | Permalink

Two months ago Ammar was in Baghdad, where it was too dangerous to walk down the street. Sunday he ran through New Haven, the first refugee to finish a 5K road race.

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