Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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Point: City must service large undocumented population

Published Tuesday, October 30, 2007

City Community Services Administrator Kica Matos made few extreme propositions when she addressed the Yale Political Union on this topic last week. She didn’t call to make Spanish a national language; she didn’t want to return California to Mexico. She also didn’t propose a change to the federal immigration law. Those are federal issues.

Matos did argue for the city of New Haven to do its job. As the driving force behind the Elm City ID card — which effectively provides city services to illegal immigrants — she only argued that the city government should help the police fight crime...

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