IAC NEWS & EVENTS

NEW BEDFORD — Portuguese citizens who are deported from the United States will now have a new program to offer them support and services once they arrive in their native country, according to Immigrants’ Assistance Center Executive Director Helena da Silva Hughes. The...

NEW BEDFORD — Maria Medeiros deixou-se dominar pela emoção, não conseguindo controlar as lágrimas de alegria após se ter tornado cidadã norte-americana, numa cerimónia de naturalização que teve lugar na passada sexta-feira, no Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante em New...

She set foot on American soil in 2001, a French-speaking, Senegalese single mother, 10-year-old daughter by her side. She had never had a formal job. Now in New Bedford, working, married, and mother to a second child, Soukeye Diarra became a U.S. citizen on Friday....

Seja sob que ângulo se olhar a questão dos deportados portugueses dos EUA e do Canadá – a maioria dos quais de origem açoriana, por motivos históricos (caça à baleia) – no final de contas, o que mais choca na generalidade dos casos é a assimetria de pena extra que...

The traffic blockade was ready. The vans and buses were standing by. The agents told the mayor and the Department of Social Services. And then they stormed the factory. It was March 6, 2007, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Immigration officials raided the Michael...

Rumors have been circulating for months on the docks of New Bedford. Workers have been hearing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are coming.  Jon Mitchell, New Bedford’s Harvard-educated mayor, told WGBH News, “It’s hard to tell...