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Connecticut Limits Cooperation With Secure Communities
by Seth Freed Wessler on June 3 2013, 11:54AM
Connecticut’s legislature unanimously agreed to limit the state’s compliance with the federal Secure Communities deportation program.
Topics: Immigration, /NOW
Connecticut to Allow Undocumented Immigrants to Apply for Driving Licenses
by Jorge Rivas on May 31 2013, 12:18PM
Connecticut is set to become the latest state to allow immigrants to get driver’s licenses regardless of their legal status.
Topics: Immigration, /NOW
Northeast Tribal Lands Hit Hard by Hurricane Sandy
by Jorge Rivas on October 31 2012, 5:44PM
Northeastern tribes say they need both federal and non-governmental agencies to help with recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy.
Topics: Environment, /NOW
CT Court Set to Hear Inmate’s Case that Death Penalty is Racist
by Jorge Rivas on September 5 2012, 2:12PM
The inmates cite a study that concluded that people of color accused of murdering white victims are three times more likely to receive a death sentence as defendants in white-on-white murder cases.
Topics: Criminal Justice, /NOW
How East Haven, Conn., Became Synonymous With Racial Profiling
by Seth Freed Wessler on February 2 2012, 10:22AM
Even if the town cops’ lawlessness is fixed, questions remain that go far beyond East Haven’s city limits. The issue was not just that racist local cops wanted to deport immigrants; it’s that federal immigration authorities obliged them.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Dispatches, Immigration
UConn Says Bronx Prodigy Autum Ashante Was Never Accepted
by Jorge Rivas on July 25 2011, 11:05AM
Controversy’s brewing over who’s telling the truth. Did a reporter leave out critical information from the story? Or did the girl’s father make the whole thing up?
Topics: Schools & Youth
Black Prodigy’s Admission to UConn Revoked Amid Claims of Radical Poetry
by Jorge Rivas on July 18 2011, 11:28AM
Autum Ashante is a 13-year-old with an IQ of 149. But she’s already being called the “racist poet” by some conservatives.
Topics: Schools & Youth
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