IAC NEWS & EVENTS

Dolores Rivas came to the United States from El Salvador two decades ago. A worker in the local fishing industry, Rivas, like many city immigrants was busy earning a living and making ends meet until what some are calling “the Trump effect.” On Tuesday, Rivas, 43, was...

O Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante celebrou o seu 45º aniversário, no passado dia 8 de Abril, no Museu da Baleia, na presença de mais de 300 simpatizantes e apoiantes dos seus esforços para auxiliar a comunidade imigrante a superar barreiras e a integrar-se na...

A program that helps lower the language barrier between school staff and students and their immigrant families is back at Roosevelt Middle School. Viewed as a success after it was piloted at the school in 2009, the AMIGOS program — A Multilingual International...

Click here to purchase your copy of 'Poems of our Lives' This article originally appeared in OJornal on December 17th, 2015 and can be found here NEW BEDFORD — A group of Portuguese elders have found in poetry a vehicle to improve their cognitive skills, express their...

By Carol Kozma NEW BEDFORD — Cassio Raggi, a 26-year-old Brazil native who lives in Easton, might have become a citizen Friday but he says he has felt American for far longer. “I’ve been here for close to 10 years and it has become my home,” he said after the...

By Lurdes C. da Silva NEW BEDFORD — In its 40-plus years of existence, the Immigrants’ Assistance Center has collected many recognitions, but few, if any, are as important as the one it just received from the Depart-ment of Homeland Security. U.S. Citizenship and...