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1 week ago | 
newbedfordlight.org | Kevin G. Andrade |Eleonora Bianchi
NEW BEDFORD — Juan Ramón Alegría Rodas, 43, prepared a dinner he would never eat: ribs, wings, a radish salad. By 7 p.m. on Monday, his wife, Patricia, and their 15-year-old daughter, Melissa, sat at the table, the third plate untouched. His absence hung over the meal, leaving a family caught between hunger and dread, unsure whether to lift their forks or simply sit in silence. Rodas was arrested on Monday in the North End of New Bedford while on his way to pick up his daughter from school.
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3 weeks ago | 
newbedfordlight.org | Eleonora Bianchi |Gerardo Beltran Salinas
NEW BEDFORD — Federal agents arrested two Guatemalan men, one with a criminal record, in New Bedford’s North End early Wednesday morning as they were heading to work. The detainment marks at least 17 people who have been arrested in the city since Jan. 20 as part of the Trump administration’s “enhanced” operation in Massachusetts to detain and deport immigrants.
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3 weeks ago | 
newbedfordlight.org | Eleonora Bianchi |Anastasia Lennon
NEW BEDFORD — Congressman Bill Keating is demanding answers from top Trump administration officials about the violent arrest of an undocumented Guatemalan man in New Bedford on Monday. In a letter on Thursday to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel, Keating said the man, Juan Francisco Méndez, 29, was in the process of receiving derivative asylum status through his wife, an asylee, and requested that he be reunited with his wife and son, absent a criminal record.
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4 weeks ago | 
oceanstatestories.org | Anastasia Lennon |Gerardo Beltran Salinas |Eleonora Bianchi
Originally published in The New Bedford Light, a publication partner of Ocean State Stories. New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell answers reporters’ questions at a press conference about the incident on Tallman Street.
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4 weeks ago | 
newbedfordlight.org | Gerardo Beltran Salinas |Eleonora Bianchi |Anastasia Lennon
NEW BEDFORD — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave “misleading” and “last-minute” information to city law enforcement and has not responded to the city’s requests for more information about the violent arrest of a New Bedford immigrant this week, according to Mayor Jon Mitchell. Juan Francisco Méndez, 29, an immigrant from Guatemala with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested on Monday.
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1 month ago | 
newbedfordlight.org | Eleonora Bianchi |Kevin G. Andrade
A 32-year-old New Bedford resident who has lived in the United States since he was 2 years old is in immigration detention in Maine due to a drug charge resolved a decade ago, according to his attorney. At the end of March, after returning from a vacation abroad, Rui Murras was detained by U.S. immigration officers at the airport. He is currently being held at the Cumberland County Jail in Portland, Maine, while his family fights to bring him home.
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1 month ago | 
newbedfordlight.org | Eleonora Bianchi |Anastasia Lennon
They came from Cambridge, Providence, West Warwick, Quincy, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Assonet and New Bedford hours before sunrise, all with a shared plan: board the first train from New Bedford to Boston at 4:27 a.m. — the first to connect the cities in 67 years. Some hopped on with a sibling or spouse, looking forward to a breakfast in Boston.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
newbedfordlight.org | Eleonora Bianchi |Anastasia Lennon
For years, advocates and legal experts have held training sessions with the immigrant community, oftentimes in their native language and in familiar places, like a church or civic center, to teach them and their families about their rights. Everyone in the United States is entitled to certain fundamental rights, and that includes — to a varied extent — undocumented immigrants, temporary visa holders, people seeking asylum, and refugees.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
newbedfordlight.org | Eleonora Bianchi |Anastasia Lennon
Tomas lives in New Bedford with his wife and child. He’s from Guatemala, but has had permanent legal status in the U.S. for over a decade. Other Guatemalans also call New Bedford home, and they also have kids. But some don’t have legal status. With deportation threats looming, Tomas and his wife signed a form that makes a promise to another set of Guatemalan parents in the community. If they get deported, Tomas and his wife will look after their three children.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
lenuovemamme.it | Eleonora Bianchi
Joy Cowley, l’autrice, in questo capolavoro ” UN CAPPOTTO PICCOLO PICCOLO” ha trattato due temi importantissimi: la solidarietà e l’amicizia. Come anche altri libri pubblicati da Storiedichi Edizioni, anche questo ci è piaciuto molto!La storia racconta l’avventura di una donnina piccola piccola che deve prepararsi per il sopraggiungere di un temporale autunnale. Si accorge che ha bisogno di un cappotto ma si rende conto che non ha nulla per poterlo realizzare.
