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Salvadorans with TPS facing 18-month deadline to leave U.S.

NEW BEDFORD — The Trump administration has ended Temporary Protected Status for people from El Salvador, a decision that affects Bristol County’s second-largest Central American community. Helena DaSilva Hughes, executive director of the Immigrants’ Assistance Center...

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Immigration crackdown brings heartache to Portuguese families

Helena Hughes, executive director of the Immigrants’ AssistanceCenter in New Bedford, says her office has received an unprecedented number of calls from Portuguese families whose loved ones have overstayed their visas and were picked up by Immigration authorities in...

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Our case managers are multi-lingual, speaking five languages, and multicultural, able to fully understand the subtleties of culturally-based dreams and fears.