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NEWS & UPDATES
‘To us, this is home:’ SouthCoast residents under DACA fear for their futures
Pricilla Gamboa, 21, lives in Fairhaven, goes to Bristol Community College and volunteers. Luis Gomez, 27, has his driver’s license, graduated from Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech and is in a five-year electrician apprenticeship program. Yet Gamboa and Gomez have more in...
Evento de angariação de fundos para o Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante reúne mais de 200 pessoas; rende $30 mil
NEW BEDFORD — Uma angariação de fundos realizada no passado dia 10 de Agosto a favor do Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante reuniu mais de 200 pessoas e rendeu cerca de $30 mil para programas destinados a ajudar a comunidade imigrante a superar barreiras culturais e...
IAC, AMI working together to help deportees
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...
Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante acolhe cerimónia de naturalização
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...
Inside I am happy: 21 from 9 nations become new U.S. citizens
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....
Os deportados portugueses dos EUA e do Canadá: uma questão de Direitos Humanos
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...
A massive ICE raid in this town didn’t stop undocumented labor — or illegal immigration
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...
New Bedford Fishery Workers Spooked By Rumors Of Impending Immigration Raid
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...
Addiction help available for Portuguese-speaking families
Local service providers brought their message Monday night to the Portuguese-speaking community: Help is available for families struggling with opioid addiction. A panel of seven speakers addressed about a dozen people gathered at the Immigrants’ Assistance Center to...
Há milhares de portugueses indocumentados em Massachusetts que podem ser deportados
O Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante, em New Bedford, fundado em 1971 por um grupo de imigrantes portugueses e luso-americanos, com a finalidade de ajudar os portugueses que na altura chegavam à cidade, hoje sob a direção de Helena Silva Hughes, tem hoje uma ação...
‘To us, this is home:’ SouthCoast residents under DACA fear for their futures
Pricilla Gamboa, 21, lives in Fairhaven, goes to Bristol Community College and volunteers. Luis Gomez, 27, has his driver’s license, graduated from Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech and is in a five-year electrician apprenticeship program. Yet Gamboa and Gomez have more in...
Evento de angariação de fundos para o Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante reúne mais de 200 pessoas; rende $30 mil
NEW BEDFORD — Uma angariação de fundos realizada no passado dia 10 de Agosto a favor do Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante reuniu mais de 200 pessoas e rendeu cerca de $30 mil para programas destinados a ajudar a comunidade imigrante a superar barreiras culturais e...
IAC, AMI working together to help deportees
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...
Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante acolhe cerimónia de naturalização
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...
Inside I am happy: 21 from 9 nations become new U.S. citizens
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....
Os deportados portugueses dos EUA e do Canadá: uma questão de Direitos Humanos
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...
A massive ICE raid in this town didn’t stop undocumented labor — or illegal immigration
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...
New Bedford Fishery Workers Spooked By Rumors Of Impending Immigration Raid
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...
Addiction help available for Portuguese-speaking families
Local service providers brought their message Monday night to the Portuguese-speaking community: Help is available for families struggling with opioid addiction. A panel of seven speakers addressed about a dozen people gathered at the Immigrants’ Assistance Center to...
Há milhares de portugueses indocumentados em Massachusetts que podem ser deportados
O Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante, em New Bedford, fundado em 1971 por um grupo de imigrantes portugueses e luso-americanos, com a finalidade de ajudar os portugueses que na altura chegavam à cidade, hoje sob a direção de Helena Silva Hughes, tem hoje uma ação...
‘To us, this is home:’ SouthCoast residents under DACA fear for their futures
Pricilla Gamboa, 21, lives in Fairhaven, goes to Bristol Community College and volunteers. Luis Gomez, 27, has his driver’s license, graduated from Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech and is in a five-year electrician apprenticeship program. Yet Gamboa and Gomez have more in...
Evento de angariação de fundos para o Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante reúne mais de 200 pessoas; rende $30 mil
NEW BEDFORD — Uma angariação de fundos realizada no passado dia 10 de Agosto a favor do Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante reuniu mais de 200 pessoas e rendeu cerca de $30 mil para programas destinados a ajudar a comunidade imigrante a superar barreiras culturais e...
IAC, AMI working together to help deportees
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...
Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante acolhe cerimónia de naturalização
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...
Inside I am happy: 21 from 9 nations become new U.S. citizens
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....
Os deportados portugueses dos EUA e do Canadá: uma questão de Direitos Humanos
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...
A massive ICE raid in this town didn’t stop undocumented labor — or illegal immigration
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...
New Bedford Fishery Workers Spooked By Rumors Of Impending Immigration Raid
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...
Addiction help available for Portuguese-speaking families
Local service providers brought their message Monday night to the Portuguese-speaking community: Help is available for families struggling with opioid addiction. A panel of seven speakers addressed about a dozen people gathered at the Immigrants’ Assistance Center to...
Há milhares de portugueses indocumentados em Massachusetts que podem ser deportados
O Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante, em New Bedford, fundado em 1971 por um grupo de imigrantes portugueses e luso-americanos, com a finalidade de ajudar os portugueses que na altura chegavam à cidade, hoje sob a direção de Helena Silva Hughes, tem hoje uma ação...
‘To us, this is home:’ SouthCoast residents under DACA fear for their futures
Pricilla Gamboa, 21, lives in Fairhaven, goes to Bristol Community College and volunteers. Luis Gomez, 27, has his driver’s license, graduated from Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech and is in a five-year electrician apprenticeship program. Yet Gamboa and Gomez have more in...
Evento de angariação de fundos para o Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante reúne mais de 200 pessoas; rende $30 mil
NEW BEDFORD — Uma angariação de fundos realizada no passado dia 10 de Agosto a favor do Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante reuniu mais de 200 pessoas e rendeu cerca de $30 mil para programas destinados a ajudar a comunidade imigrante a superar barreiras culturais e...
IAC, AMI working together to help deportees
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...
Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante acolhe cerimónia de naturalização
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...
Inside I am happy: 21 from 9 nations become new U.S. citizens
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....
Os deportados portugueses dos EUA e do Canadá: uma questão de Direitos Humanos
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...
A massive ICE raid in this town didn’t stop undocumented labor — or illegal immigration
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...
New Bedford Fishery Workers Spooked By Rumors Of Impending Immigration Raid
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...
Addiction help available for Portuguese-speaking families
Local service providers brought their message Monday night to the Portuguese-speaking community: Help is available for families struggling with opioid addiction. A panel of seven speakers addressed about a dozen people gathered at the Immigrants’ Assistance Center to...
Há milhares de portugueses indocumentados em Massachusetts que podem ser deportados
O Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante, em New Bedford, fundado em 1971 por um grupo de imigrantes portugueses e luso-americanos, com a finalidade de ajudar os portugueses que na altura chegavam à cidade, hoje sob a direção de Helena Silva Hughes, tem hoje uma ação...
‘To us, this is home:’ SouthCoast residents under DACA fear for their futures
Pricilla Gamboa, 21, lives in Fairhaven, goes to Bristol Community College and volunteers. Luis Gomez, 27, has his driver’s license, graduated from Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech and is in a five-year electrician apprenticeship program. Yet Gamboa and Gomez have more in...
Evento de angariação de fundos para o Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante reúne mais de 200 pessoas; rende $30 mil
NEW BEDFORD — Uma angariação de fundos realizada no passado dia 10 de Agosto a favor do Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante reuniu mais de 200 pessoas e rendeu cerca de $30 mil para programas destinados a ajudar a comunidade imigrante a superar barreiras culturais e...
IAC, AMI working together to help deportees
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...
Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante acolhe cerimónia de naturalização
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...
Inside I am happy: 21 from 9 nations become new U.S. citizens
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....
Os deportados portugueses dos EUA e do Canadá: uma questão de Direitos Humanos
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...
A massive ICE raid in this town didn’t stop undocumented labor — or illegal immigration
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...
New Bedford Fishery Workers Spooked By Rumors Of Impending Immigration Raid
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...
Addiction help available for Portuguese-speaking families
Local service providers brought their message Monday night to the Portuguese-speaking community: Help is available for families struggling with opioid addiction. A panel of seven speakers addressed about a dozen people gathered at the Immigrants’ Assistance Center to...
Há milhares de portugueses indocumentados em Massachusetts que podem ser deportados
O Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante, em New Bedford, fundado em 1971 por um grupo de imigrantes portugueses e luso-americanos, com a finalidade de ajudar os portugueses que na altura chegavam à cidade, hoje sob a direção de Helena Silva Hughes, tem hoje uma ação...