In response to the arraignment of an alleged rapist, two anti-illegal-immigration activists held a press conference Monday night to air their grievances against Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and the Elm City ID Card.
Despite the Elm City Resident Card’s rather controversial history, there were no protesters at today’s ID registration in Dwight Hall.
New Haven’s controversial immigration raids may be a symptom of a simple, but momentous, political change at the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
After examining hundreds of federal documents, a team of Yale Law School students determined that “Operation Front Line” — an anti-terrorism program initiated by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency — has been racially profiling individuals from majority Muslim nations.
An appeal filed last week against the Freedom of Information Commission — challenging its conclusion that the identities of Elm City ID cardholders should remain private — presents the Connecticut State Superior Court with a highly unusual and heated months-long case that could end up making its way to the state Supreme Court.
As anticipated, the anti-illegal-immigrant Community Watchdog Project announced last Friday that it filed an appeal with the Connecticut Superior Court regarding its request for documents relating to the Elm City ID program.
This July, the Elm City Resident Card celebrated both its one-year anniversary and a long-awaited court victory — although opponents are looking to cut the celebrations short.
Commissioner Sheldon London, citing violent anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic rhetoric and threats that the city had presented as evidence, wrote that the release of the documents would constitute a danger to public safety.
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.
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.
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.
New Haven got a boost Tuesday in its battle to keep private the personal information of Elm City Resident Card holders.
