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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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 week 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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
newbedfordlight.org | Eleonora Bianchi
Jenifer Leaf Jaeger’s career rests on a guiding principle instilled by her father: if you have the ability to help someone, you have the responsibility to do so. Jaeger, the new medical director of pediatrics and director of women’s health at New Bedford Community Health, completed her pediatric residency at Tufts University School of Medicine in 1996.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
newbedfordlight.org | Eleonora Bianchi |Colin Hogan
NEW BEDFORD — The immigrant community in New Bedford woke up to election results that they saw as a “shock” and a “disaster.” But by the day’s end, advocates had already reignited emergency plans that could keep families together, protect New Bedford’s economy, and enshrine residents’ human rights. “I was totally in shock when I woke up this morning,” said Helena DaSilva Hughes, director of the Immigrants’ Assistance Center (IAC). “I thought, there’s just no way we’re going back,” she said.
