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NEW BEDFORD — One day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the staff at a downtown New Bedford restaurant said a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent walked into the shop. Two days later, a New Bedford resident posted online that they saw an ICE vehicle driving toward the waterfront. On that same day, an immigration attorney received reports that ICE agents were seen near the Market Basket, and spread the word to be careful.
Immigration 2025 / First in a series
The first weeks of the new Trump administration haven’t yet brought mass deportation arrests in New Bedford, but they did bring a swirl of reports, sightings, and rumors, as well as a spate of false prank calls about immigration raids, according to local immigration advocates on the South Coast. All of it has made for a confusing and tiresome few weeks, advocates say. But the prevailing sentiment was uncertainty: “I don’t think anyone has enough data right now to project where raids will happen,” said immigration attorney Rebecca Eissenova. “No one knows.”
The ICE field office in the Boston area has already begun highly publicized immigration raids, but did not respond to outreach about whether their agents were actively working in New Bedford. Many local advocates said they feel as though New Bedford’s undocumented immigrants are at a high risk level. The memory of the Michael Bianco Inc. raid in 2007 — including recent front page and statewide coverage of what was the largest immigration raid in state history –— has been a reminder that arrests and deportations could be on the doorstep.
Even for immigrants who have work authorization, fear has been everywhere. This includes the server and cashier at the New Bedford restaurant who says he saw the ICE agent. The 26-year-old from El Salvador has been in the asylum process for four years. He has secured working papers while that process continues, and recently he and his wife had their second child. Most days he simply goes to work; he knows the local police officers who come into the restaurant; he pays his taxes.
But he reported feeling desperately afraid when a uniformed officer that he did not recognize entered the restaurant. That officer’s car had a logo that he recognized as the ICE logo, he said. After ordering and eating lunch, the officer sat in that car in front of the restaurant for 10 minutes. The cashier didn’t know if that meant his time in the United States was about to end; if he’d be separated from his new child; if he would have to return to a country he fled years ago.
This new reality is also one that many New Bedford and South Coast residents campaigned, supported, and voted for. Immigration raids could be “a real possibility,” said former Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, who served as Trump’s campaign manager in Massachusetts. Hodgson’s campaign effort was based in New Bedford and may have contributed to the “rightward drift” that saw Trump win 48% of the vote in Bristol County this past year.
“Thankfully the American people elected Trump by a significant margin,” Hodgson said. “They want to have safe communities and not be worried about people coming in.” Hodgson said that he believes any raid will target people with criminal records, and said that anyone who protects “illegal aliens” uses a “thin veneer of virtue they hide behind to somehow suggest they’re doing good.” This opinion may reflect many local voters, including the majority in Wards 1 and 2, which Trump won, as well as many nearby towns.
Yet as uncertainty and fear pervade New Bedford — a community where one in every five residents was born in a different country — the truth about the immigrant community can be overlooked: most of New Bedford’s immigrants are already citizens; many have been here for decades; and data shows that undocumented immigrants do not add to crime.
Furthermore, immigrants in New Bedford have been the foundation of New Bedford’s industry. They buoy New Bedford’s waterfront workforce, and they are responsible for keeping school enrollment up.
Since Trump’s inauguration, many people working in the city feel on edge. So, who are the immigrants in New Bedford? And what is the risk they face under a new administration?
New Bedford’s immigrants
Since the year 2000, the largest demographic shift in New Bedford has been a steady rise in the Hispanic and Latino population — terms that indicate people have connections to Central or South America or countries with Spanish-speaking populations. At the turn of the 21st century, 10% of New Bedford residents were Hispanic or Latino. Today, it’s almost 25%.
Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau has attempted to track national origins. In the 1990s, immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Guatemala made up the majority of the city’s foreign-born Hispanic and Latino population. In the first decade of the 2000s, the number of newcomers from Guatemala exploded. Jobs in the fishhouses on New Bedford’s waterfront were plentiful, a Guatemalan man told a reporter for a story published in The Light — with only two out of 50 Guatemalans having proper documentation, this man said.
In the 2010s, people came from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. There was also a significant slice of foreign-born immigrants who came through Puerto Rico — meaning they were born outside that U.S. territory before immigrating to New Bedford through the island.
Corinn Williams, director of New Bedford’s Community Economic Development Center, said that many people don’t realize that the Hispanic and Latino community has been here for decades. “If you happen to be Central American or Guatemalan, there's an assumption that you're undocumented. And that's not the case, because the Central American community has been here for the better part of 20, 25 years."
For many, New Bedford has always been their home: “Kids have been born and [are] in the school system,” Williams said.
Immigration trends of the past three years don’t have the same detailed statistical picture, because the most recent Census Bureau survey with national origin data was completed in 2021. However, some evidence points to an uptick in Brazilian immigrants, who are now the most numerous arrivals to Bristol County, according to a Washington Post report that analyzed cases in immigration court. Reporting from The Light noted a wave of Nicaraguan immigrants. Local immigration advocates and school department officials also said that Haitian immigrants represent a significant portion of new arrivals.
Looking only at “foreign-born” immigrants, however, almost entirely misses the picture. Most of the Hispanic and Latino people in New Bedford came from Puerto Rico, so are already U.S. citizens.
In fact, tallying up all of New Bedford’s Hispanic and Latino population shows that the very large majority of them are U.S. citizens. In large part this is because of the Puerto Rican population, but also because immigrants from all countries have been applying for and receiving U.S. citizenship. Many others are trying to become U.S. citizens, but are stuck in an immigration system that delays their cases for years.
Other advocates say that New Bedford’s historic immigrant populations — Portuguese, Azorean, and Cape Verdean — are overlooked because of the political fixation on Central American immigrants. Many Portuguese nationals who overstayed their 90-day visitor visas could be affected by Trump’s policies, said Helena DaSilva Hughes, president of the Immigrants’ Assistance Center. “Nobody talks about that,” she said.
DaSilva Hughes added that some people are choosing to leave the country. The Portuguese consulate has been busy renewing passports for this reason, she said.
Only a small number among all these immigrants don’t have any documentation, according to Ken Amoriggi, an immigration lawyer with Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Fall River. Those who are undocumented, he said, follow a similar path.
Almost no one gets to New Bedford randomly, and most people arrive because they have family here, Amoriggi said. Brazilians, Haitians, Guatemalans — all are part of the picture. And when people get here, they usually become busy with work, housing, and school for months on end. The majority of immigrants are working age, and they quickly get jobs among the ranks of undocumented laborers in industries like construction, fishing, and health care. Only after three to five months do people usually feel settled enough to reach out to an attorney like himself, Amoriggi said.
“They are typically escaping violence, whether it’s political violence, gang violence. It’s almost always a tumultuous and dangerous situation they’re leaving behind,” said Amoriggi. “They usually can’t afford to all travel together, so each family makes an educated decision about who should begin the journey.”
Once they work with an attorney, they begin to navigate the complicated immigration process, including sorting out what their own status is. The people Amoriggi works with aren’t criminals, he said: they are fleeing crime. Amoriggi estimates that among New Bedford, Fall River, and the surrounding areas, the number of undocumented immigrants ranges from 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Roni Amit, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at UMass Dartmouth, previously told The Light, “Undocumented immigrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than citizens.” Data supports this claim. Undocumented immigrants are about 30% less likely to be incarcerated than U.S.-born citizens.
Despite this fact, undocumented immigrants are scared they’ll be caught up in raids and treated like criminals. Adrian Ventura, a U.S. citizen who advocates for immigrants at the Centro Communidad de Trabajadores in New Bedford, said, “They’re very afraid. They don’t want to speak out.”
Who is at risk? What can they do?
During his inauguration speech, President Trump vowed to “return millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.”
Two days later, ICE Boston announced the arrest of eight undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts accused of crimes. “We are targeting very violent threats to our community,” an ICE officer told a Fox News reporter who rode along with them.
But the crackdown apprehended people beyond its stated goal.
Jennifer Velarde, an immigration attorney in New Bedford, said she has received multiple calls from clients reporting that ICE agents knocked on the doors of undocumented migrants in Framingham and East Boston. According to Velarde, none of these individuals have criminal records.
“The best thing people can do to get prepared is to know their rights,” said Eissenova, the immigration attorney based in the Greater New Bedford area. Many churches, assistance centers, and attorneys have been handing out “red cards” that include instructions for how to interact with an immigration officer. Eissenova also said that people should “gather documents in a place where they or their loved ones can get them.” This includes documents of all family members and instructions for who will take care of children.
What’s different between the current raids and those under previous administrations, according to Ondine Galvez Sniffin, an immigration lawyer in New Bedford, is the current administration’s goal of deporting a million people annually. That far exceeds all deportations from last year — 271,500 noncitizens in fiscal year 2024, of which fewer than 30% had any criminal history.
There are also risks for the communities that deported people will leave behind. Immigrants make up over 20% of the Massachusetts workforce, said Mark Williams, a master lecturer in finance at Boston University, who recently published a study on immigrants’ role in the Massachusetts labor market. If immigrants were to leave, he explained, the state will lose job makers, not job takers.
“Immigration has provided most of the labor supply growth,” Williams said. “So as new jobs open up, if our workforce isn’t growing to meet demand, companies won’t come to Massachusetts, and our economic growth will slow down.”
That slowdown may already be in motion. If Trump’s crackdown on sanctuary states like California, Illinois, and (arguably) Massachusetts fuels enough fear to keep immigrants away, the economic fallout will be unavoidable and far-reaching. These states won’t just lose workers — they’ll lose the economic engine that relies on them, Williams warned. “It’s not so much the amount of deportation, but just the fear of it.”
How will it happen?
Immigrant success stories in Massachusetts often find their roots in New Bedford, a city shaped by waves of migration dating back to the whaling era. Cape Verdeans, Portuguese, and others first arrived seeking opportunity. Later, the fishing industry drew Norwegians, Irish, Canadians, and Vietnamese, who not only built better lives for themselves but also fueled the Massachusetts economy.
The 2007 Michael Bianco Inc. raid, in which ICE agents arrested 361 undocumented workers at an apparel plant in the South End, remains fresh in the collective memory. With the Trump administration's recent raids in New York and Chicago, fears of renewed ICE operations in New Bedford have resurfaced.
Amoriggi, the attorney with Catholic Charities, is skeptical that New Bedford will see another operation on the scale of the Bianco raid. But if it does happen, he said, “The most logical targets are places like fishing factories, where we know immigrants tend to work. In fact, many of those workforces are immigrants.”
“The majority of the undocumented community are hardworking, family-oriented people,” Galvez Sniffin added. “They’re the ones who will end up filling the numbers left after the violent criminals are deported.”
Beyond the immediate threat of enforcement against undocumented immigrants accused of crimes, though, lies a deeper issue. What happens to those who are already here and have no criminal record?
On that question, Velarde is blunt. “If they’re going to deport people, then bring some protection for those who have no criminal record,” she said. “Pass legislation. Create a law that allows people to be legal in this country.”
Email Colin Hogan at chogan@newbedfordlight.org and Eleonora Bianchi at ebianchi@newbedfordlight.org
Grace Ferguson contributed to this report.
Misguided Public Policy Worsening Economic Trend, Always a Probability; Consistently Consequential, in Extremity, for the Poor, Principally
By Professor Yves A. Isidor, Executive Editor of Wehaitians.com
Even by United States’ standards, where the poor, by many measures, may see far more better opportunities than in “Shithole America,” the latter the North American land, even when remedies are to emerge there that life is no longer profoundly affected as before, when compared to affluent America, alternately still a tale of ”Haves and Economically Disadvantaged People.” The stark contrast, during a recession the injustices become a lot more painful, and so governments, despite finding it worth to more than ask why that is so, meaning attempting to or addressing the problem of concern, while there is always a possibility for its efforts to even add fuel to the fire, still, indisputably, deserve heaps of blame for policies that aggravate the problem – that of the most vulnerable persons in society or the poor.
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“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in if it is not a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.” – President Theodore Roosevelt
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What of poverty? One of the complexities of social problems that intersect with another one known as the ugly word racism. The U.S. Census Bureau defines “deep poverty” as living in a household with a total cash income below 50 percent of its poverty threshold. The bureau of the same, as referred to immediately above, Poverty Thresholds (2015;) Size of Family Unit, for the same calendar year:
• One person (unrelated individual), $12,082.
• Under age 65, $12,331.
• Age 65 or older, $11,367.
• Two people, $15,391.
• Householder under age 65, $15,952.
• Householder age 65 or older, $14,342.
• Three people, $18,871.
• And more (unless otherwise.)
All of the painful figures or information mentioned immediately above, in U.S. dollars, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty.
The poverty rate among those classified as black Americans is at a percentage of 22 percent. The 22 percentile far surpasses the national average of 13 percent. Numerous are they the African-Americans poor men and women – nine million of them in total, who are still with us, as would Jesus have said, while the total number for all Americans lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society (particularly an advanced one that is the U.S.) is a resounding one of 41 million. And so white American families, it may be conclude, constitute 66 percent of the whole of the poor population. A percentage that sure tells most recipients of means-tested programs, including Medicaid and Housing Assistance, are of the white race. All, the figures, immediately above, according to information published by The Economist Magazine of February 20 th 2018 – Democracy in America, before all others, was the title of the article of concern, and one by C.K.
Yet, contrary to the general belief that black men, especially poor and uneducated African-American women, who have not joined particularly their male African-Americans in matrimony, are all “super-welfare queens,” as they are often risibly referred to in the vernacular.
And marriage, which is derived from Old French, marier (to marry), and ultimately Latin, marītāre, meaning to provide with a husband or wife and marītāri, that is historically to enter into an intended permanent social and legal contract and relationship with another person, such institution was abolished in 270 A.D. by Roman Emperor Claudius who assumed that the marital status of men was the cause for their refusal to join his army, and the chief culprit Valentine himself, a priest within the vicinity of Rome, after he was taken out of the circulation and incarcerated, was forced to endure the indignities of the large cutting knife – that is he was beheaded. And a barbarian practice the extremist militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS that rules by Wahhabi/Salafi law would adopt beginning in 2014 in its effort to violently terminate the lives of those (Christians and Jews, in particular) deemed “Infidels.”
The same group of poor people not considered to be deserving of pity or sympathy, because they have expressed no interest in joining the workforce to rightly earn a living like tens of millions others … “they are innately lazy; they always, rather, want free stuff.” Overall, they are free-riders. But all, to say the men and other women, that is those who practice “patrimonial capitalism,” like numerous others, often tend to, in public, remain silent about this damaging distortion that seems to be as old as the Bible; more, about the central issue, that of entrenched inequality that continues to deprive tens of millions of families, in increasing numbers and fast, of the opportunity needed to first sufficiently earn an (gross) income that would subsequently permit them to pay, say, their (economic) rent. This, even when a family (husband and wife) was obliged to labor for more even than the combined hours of 150 per week and at a pedestrian rate so, always.
What also principally explains a government or nation/country defaulting on its social contract with the larger part (often, the poor and lower-income people) of a given populace or citizenry is when it reduces taxes for the rich, more especially so, those who control the means of production; this, while depriving the poor of even the reduced benefits or negligible food-purchasing assistance that comes with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, in the U.S., for example; and more, the next to nothing benefits referred to immediately above, the poor’s last line of defense, if the added-extreme or newly created deprivation of food, in extremity, is not to be cause for them to succumb to the unwanted indignities of malnutrition, which effect can also principally be explained by a significant reduction of the brain’s gray matter, as a person’s loss of weight continues to be excessive – an existential threat to national security or a people as a whole’s well-being.
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What, particularly, of democratically elected political leaders, policymakers? Before all, they exist to serve as harm-prevention or poverty prevention, harm reduction or poverty reduction, to cite only these two. That is some serious affair. When they have the honor of serving a populace but utterly seem indifferent to make even the minimum effort needed to prove they have the gift of knowledge and the tendency to design and implement regulations and policies that translate into eliminating extreme poverty by a wide margin; overall, the betterment of a place such as a nation/country, or its people they officially govern; there is abundant evidence that their moral and political fecklessness imperils lives. That is even a lot more dangerous when not having at all exercise such a responsibility or confidence placed in them. Their inaction paints a bleak picture of a people ravaged by economic turmoil, and so death may even ultimately become harder than life for the already victims to afford.
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There is certainly more. That is reducing taxes for the affluent. If history is any guide, in economic terms, there is no certainty that this particular effort will ultimately create economic growth. But one thing that differs a great deal and is most likely for certain to occur as a result is that the government or nation/country’s loss of real revenues from tax cuts may chiefly be cause, not only for a severe economic downturn, but lacking the economic tools (or the cash) needed, as blanket distress is manifesting itself, and in so many ways, to help finance the necessary economic measures determined needed to reinvigorate the economy and prevent or reverse a recession by boosting employment and spending – overall, a respectable stimulus package.
The Prophet Muhammad’s Disease, “Terrorism;” Guns and the Poor – Nothing Fake About These
More than 357 million firearms (estimated, 2015) on the streets of the United States of America, according to various credible sources, including The Washington Post. While in various nations/countries (15, in total) around the world studied by GunPolicy.org ; Law Library of Congress , purchasing or entering possession of a firearm can be a nearly insurmountable or impossible affair, because the process takes months, in the U.S., however, Americans, in large numbers, can purchase a gun in less than an hour’s time.
Yet, such an uncomfortable, rather nearly infinitesimally number of instruments predominantly, it may not be argued, represents a risk factor rather than a protective factor for homicide. More so, since the probability is that the distant terrorist descendants of the Prophet Muhammad may attempt to exploit the continued predicament of the poor to, with the help of firearms, further practize the ungodly but satanic type of disease, “Terrorism,” of the proclaimer of the will of God or Allah Muhammad claimed he was; and further, to count numerous more of the murderous or extremely ugly practice victims in the U.S. rather than in many other high-income industrialized nations/countries; the same lands, like a nearly incalculable numbers of others – developing and emerging nations/countries – where the use of explosives, for example, for homemade bombs and booby-traps, is the preferred method employed to attain their (immediate) objective, one of causing mass destruction.
And yet, such a pressing danger the Prophet Muhammad’s communicable disease that “Terrorism” is, principally for the reason that a significantly large number of youth across the globe have been influenced to join extremist activities; this, in large part, according to a new study by researchers who examined data on 2,817 acts of terror carried out in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and others.
Must the readers of this book be reminded the Islamic extremists or fanatics are like bugs. You do not always have to spray the place they use to conceal themselves for such parasites to emerge, even in greater numbers than before, and consciously conduct terrorist attacks or practize their only trade that jihad is anywhere, anyhow and anytime with little or absolutely no warning.
The Islamic men of terror, in extremity, their barbarous actions against those deemed “Infidels,” because the latter are believed to have categorically refused to live under the said “wise rule” of Allah, are not always also without economic consequences; those that may be defined as even a continued loss of taxpayers’ monies, for example, badly needed to help improve the lot of the poor, as a larger percentage of the budget is rather spent on terrorism- related activities. All, sadly as the economy is nosediving and
unemployment itself is even forecast to further go on the jump, at an alarming rate so – yet even worse as the population grows. The correct thing to do, ameliorating the unwanted condition of life of the poor, because it is also a way for a government to, in part, put into action the social contract entered into – even with its most marginalized citizens.
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Biographical information about the author, Yves A. Isidor, who is of the City of Cambridge, MA (USA) – The writer, who often shares his almost innumerable, eloquently written thoughts with The New York Times community on various subjects of great interest, has been a professor of economics at many U.S. colleges and Universities, principally the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. The same writer, one of prõdigium (prodigious) talents, and one his combinatory, natural intelligence diverges or spreads from or as if from a central point, after you depart his company you have a natural tendency to act or feel like a polymath, an intellectual colossus, too. Fluent in both speaking and writing the French, Spanish and English languages, and the lingo Haitian Creole interchangeably. Speaking and reading abilities in two other most widely spoken Romance languages, also by number of native speakers and others who are “highly proficient speakers:” Portuguese and Italian. The classic languages, comprising of Latin and Greek, he is capable of translating texts written in them into all of the languages mentioned immediately above with a skill beyond words. His great work, “Muhammad, the Congenital Prophet of Devastation, Still Not a Match for the Pandemic and Systematic Racism,” one of which subtitle is “’Terrorism,’ chiefly the Prophet’s disease, so is a curable vaccine needed if the river of blood is to stop flowing’” (unless otherwise). Such a book or oeuvre, by many measures, including important information or a link post that concerns it or the Prophet Muhammad, prominently so on the Ministry of External Affairs website, Government of India, and a multitude of others, a sort of Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (abbreviated as ThLL or TLL). The act or instance of comparing the author’s written work to the specific lexicon just mentioned, such a reference for his arguments that are principally rooted in: Theology, philosophy, sociology, economics, history, and political science. The writer of the same certainly can be reached at: yvesisidor@wehaitians.com; by way of a telephone: 857-258-8868. And please see http://www.wehaitians.com/profile for more background information.
Hodson claiming Trump won “significantly” is a lie… 48% V/S 49% is NOT a landslide. We need facts not misinformation…When the rest of his supporters get hit with the wreckage headed their way I would bet a new vote would have very different results.
I have the same issue with Hodson’s use of “significantly” in the context in which he used it. At the very least, Hudson exaggerated grossly.
Get ready, ICE is coming.
The numbers are too extreme, u know, it is only a matter of time.
I have no dog in this fight, but the numbers r insane, long overdue.
How have they negatively effected you?
So, many complaining that undocumented immigrants (AKA) illegal aliens have the right to be here if they haven’t committed a crime. Federal law states that entering the country illegally is a federal crime. So much for that argument. Let them get in line and enter the US legally like most honest people would. Why should they be allowed to skip over the people trying to follow the rules and come here under our current immigration laws.
Great post. Intrinsically, they committed a crime. For some reason, that is overlooked or not said.
Yes, it’s not usually violent and even, at least somewhat ” understandable” but still wrong.
Also, a lot of the ” it’s ok to enter the nation illegally ” folks claim that they want ” some form of border control”, however, apparently, they don’t want it to be enforced.
Heinous crime against society, like speeding.
Do you like speeding laws enforced when you are pulled over?
Dear American Citizen, well said, my thoughts exactly.
The main takeaway in the article is that most people who are immigrants in NB have been here for over a decade. Unless they’re drug dealing and murderers or rapists, my bet is they have nothing to worry about. Still, on the other hand, and I don’t know if I missed it, but if you have been here that long and dont have an H1B or a green card, then you are lazy and should have gotten an immigration lawyer by now. That’s on you if you get caught in the ICE dragnet. Democrats AND Republicans have only been warning about this since the days of Bill Clinton.
In any case, the El Salvadorean cited here that is waiting or asylum for four years stands as further evidence that the Biden admin used asylum and refugee status just to bring someone into the country “legally”. That admin had no interest, and certainly no rush, to make them legal despite all the noise about illegals voting. It’s all a scam, and Americans are paying for the scam. If you think we are not paying alot, “so stop whining”, then go to the subsidized housing projects and the hospitals, and ask the people there if they could use some financial support from the state. Even our electric bills are through the roof, up over 33% in last two years, easily.
The new gov’t should remove all of Biden’s “newcomers” from the migrant hotels who were ushered in here as political pawns since 2021. It’s too bad they got caught up in the politics, but if you and I got a bartending job on a yacht in Monaco from some events group hiring illegal aliens, and one day the Monaco gov’t decided we can’t live and work on their beautiful beaches pouring cocktails for the rich and famous anymore because we are not really suffering refugees and now, “woe is me”, we have to hop on a plane back to New Bedford to work in the snow bringing in carriages at Shaws; well, hey, what do you expect? This is basic parenting intel at this point. “I told you not to run in the house, but you did and now you cracked your skull open on the fireplace…” Why am I supposed to feel sorry for these people? If they were here for ten years+, ok. But those people, minus the criminals, are not the target.
Lastly, no American would care about these immigrants if they felt their government listened to them and did something for them. But because that is not the case, this is where we find ourselves.
Biden’s “newcomers” allowed themselves to be political pawns. They had three years of a working vacation at The Roosevelt in Manhattan. Now it’s over. It is what it is. Besides, El Salvador is safer than New Bedford today.
In 2022, New Bedford reported four homicides, resulting in a homicide rate of approximately 4.2 per 100,000 residents. As of 2024, El Salvador reported a national homicide rate of 1.9 per 100,000 inhabitants.
[https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-homicides-gangs-bukele-69384a8705267eaddd18dcd28a53465b?utm]
When will Trump remove all those who came in in on his previous term?
Are Biden’s more important?
Please stay partisan.
They’re going too.
Well stated!
my guess is after the extreme recent illegal population explosion is mitigated, there will be a slow down.
the housing crisis is the 1st for all of us. obviously law and order is needed because a great number of the illegal population is getting welfare assistance, and im sorry. i cannot afford that. thats not trumps fault for all the trump haters.
the hospitals over run with the illegal status quo who has better insurance than most of our working class. the school system has priority to take in these kids over our citizens. try not PLANTING a foriegn national flag from the country you just came from.
lastly it is a biden issue because alot of these people were duped into coming here under these conditions.
p.s. IDENTIFICATION and vetting right out the window. withput anyway way to confirm who they are, and give them DRIVERS licenses?
hotels, cars, insurance, welfare…heck i want some of that!
when are they gonna get voting righs!
PRESS RELEASE, IN LIEU OF LETTER TO THE TO THE EDITOR
19 March 2025
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CONTACT PERSON: Prof. Yves A. Isidor
CONTACT E-MAIL ADDRESS: yvesisidor@wehaitians.com; BY WAY OF A TELEPHONE: 857-258-8868
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Before All Others, the Theories of Language Acquisition, Not Easy Things
By Yves A. Isidor, Wehaitians.com Executive Editor
Occupation, what may be referred to as the effective control of a foreign territory by hostile armed forces, language acquisition, that of the “New Master,” even Spanish, because it is a very popular and widely spoken language; more, being the second most spoken native language globally after Mandarin Chinese; and more, with approximately 500 million native speakers and 600 million total speakers worldwide, still is not an easy thing to accomplish.
There is Puerto Rico, for example, with a population of 3.206 million (2023) World Bank, long after annexation by the United States, in 1898, where 97 percent or more of the inhabitants of the island of concern speak their own version (or one of the varieties, as the accent and use of words may attest to) of Spanish – still Spanish, like all others.
Yes, the language of Shakespeare or the one the English thinker contributed not less than 2,000 words to, the percentage of the Puerto Rican population estimated to be capable of expressing (fluently and not fluently) itself in the English language is around 20%.
So where is the reasoning for the idea that France would be “speaking German” without US help in WWII is a statement made by the White House in response to a French politician’s call for the return of the Statue of Liberty, implying that the US effort in WWII prevented France from being occupied and forced to speak German?
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Biographical information about the author, Yves A. Isidor, who is of the City of Cambridge, MA (USA)
The writer, who often shares his almost innumerable, eloquently written thoughts with The New York Times community on various subjects of great interest, has been a professor of economics at many U.S. colleges and Universities, principally the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. The same writer, one of prõdigium (prodigious) talents, and one his combinatory, natural intelligence diverges or spreads from or as if from a central point, after you depart his company you have a natural tendency to act or feel like a polymath, an intellectual colossus, too. Fluent in both speaking and writing the French, Spanish and English languages, and the lingo Haitian Creole interchangeably. Speaking and reading abilities in two other most widely spoken Romance languages, also by number of native speakers and others who are “highly proficient speakers:” Portuguese and Italian. The classic languages, comprising of Latin and Greek, he is capable of translating texts written in them into all of the languages mentioned immediately above with a skill beyond words. His great work, “Muhammad, the Congenital Prophet of Devastation, Still Not a Match for the Pandemic and Systematic Racism,” one of which subtitle is “’Terrorism,’ chiefly the Prophet’s disease, so is a curable vaccine needed if the river of blood is to stop flowing’” (unless otherwise). Such a book, by many measures, a sort of Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (abbreviated as ThLL or TLL). The act or instance of comparing the author’s written work to the specific lexicon just mentioned, such a reference for his arguments that are principally rooted in: Theology, philosophy, sociology, economics, history, and political science. The writer of the same certainly can be reached at: yvesisidor@wehaitians.com; by way of a telephone: 857-258-8868. And please see http://www.wehaitians.com/profile for more background information.
What about the Portuguese that are here illegally. No one is talking about that or even looking at them. I know many that have been here for years and yes they may not be criminals but if we are going after anyone here illegally it should be across the board. It should apply to all.
PRESS RELEASE, IN LIEU OF LETTER TO THE TO THE EDITOR
31 March 2025
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CONTACT PERSON: Prof. Yves A. Isidor
CONTACT E-MAIL ADDRESS: yvesisidor@wehaitians.com; BY WAY OF A TELEPHONE: 857-258-8868
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BAD PUBLIC POLICIES, IN THEIR APPLICATION, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE NOT BASED ON REALITY, DEPRIVING YOU OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO GRAPPLE WITH THE NATURE OF SO AND MUCH MORE
“You cannot, even in part, instantaneously overturn more than X number of years of the application of bad public policies; their evil consequences, incomparable they may be to other practical difficulties, in their multitudinous; as they more continue to, also in various other ways, be the principal causes for a multitude of other factual problems to have, perhaps, reached catastrophic levels, during a long period of time so; as to permit, say, a government agency responsible for important international affairs, placing a particular emphasis on finding a curable vaccine for the Prophet Mohammad’s disease, the practice of terrorism; or something else of greater significance, at present, as shifting political winds and other circumstances associated with such a changed political climate (a phrase that has its origins from both ancient Greece and medieval-era France), based on all available facts; are convinced to present a rare possibility for democratic rule – not another crisis point as the land of concern rather is best understood as one facing profound challenges, a continuum.”
Biographical information about the author, Yves A. Isidor, who Is of the City of Cambridge, MA (USA)
A sort of addendum, what other information, also extremely of importance, the writer of this text has to convey, still by way of the written word? The numerous acts of beheadings, to also say the too many other acts of “grand-barbarism,” for their extreme cruelty or brutality, too, and with regularity, all in his name, are also valuable to the understanding of the lethality of the malady that is famously known as “Terrorism” – see a long but still incomplete list of acts of terrorism ordered or supported by the Prophet Muhammad himself: https://wikiislam.net/…/List_of_Killings_Ordered_or… .
To opine more about the author of this written great work, “Magnum opus,” rather, is to say, with authority, If there is a number of rare achievers, those whose experience, vision and remarkable versatility, to cite only these ones, across a range of areas – all by the standards of leading academics, thinkers and professionals – have evoked interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way, the writer, Yves A. Isidor, of this text, who is also known for his sesquipedalian writing style; by way of alternate explanation, he is accustomed to using long words; is not simply one of them but prominently figures among this miniscule group of persons with highly developed intellectual powers; more, for the very reason he is one whose ideas will also prove to be of significance for helping shape an innumerable numbers of men and women’s understanding, principally the comprehension of those in the Western World, about the long confirmed horrible practice of the Prophet Muhammad’s disease, “Terrorism;” such an anticipated unmatched achievement, in truth, by way of his widely expected book, “ Muhammad, the Prophet of Devastation,” of which subtitle is “’Terrorism,’ the Prophet’s disease, so is a curable vaccine needed if the river of blood is to stop flowing, affirming that it is civilized society’s most urgent challenge’” (unless otherwise ); furthermore, for placing a particular emphasis on ultimately being significantly of assistance in finding a curable vaccine for what has long been, by irrefutable evidence, and without reservations, or quasi-infinitesimally so, described to be a corrosive disease.
The writer of concern, who often shares his almost innumerable, eloquently written thoughts with The New York Times community on various subjects of great interest, has been a professor of economics at many U.S. colleges and Universities, principally the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
What else? The same writer, one of prõdigium (prodigious) talents, and one his combinatory, natural intelligence diverges or spreads from or as if from a central point, after you depart his company, you have a natural tendency to act or feel like a polymath, an intellectual colossus, too.
“In Europe, most people speak more than one language. Some speak three or four or more. Multilingualism is a sign of intellectual achievement and sophistication,” eloquently wrote Héctor Tobar, a professor of journalism at the University of Oregon; the author of the novels “The Barbarian Nurseries” and “The Tattooed Soldier” and a contributing opinion writer, in a 15 November 2016 opinion article, “The Spanish Lesson I Never Got at School,” in The New York Times. Does Professor Tobar have a point? Certainly, he does.
Fluent in both speaking and writing the French, Spanish and English languages, and the lingo Haitian Creole interchangeably. Speaking and reading abilities in two other most widely spoken Romance languages, also by number of native speakers and others who are “highly proficient speakers:” Portuguese and Italian. The classic languages, comprising of Latin and Greek (in addition to Hebrew, the languages Isidore of Seville contended were “sacred” and therefore the only languages suitable for the Holy Bible), the executive editor of Wehaitians.com, a democracy and, he is capable of translating texts written in them into all of the languages mentioned immediately above with a skill beyond words.
His great work, “Muhammad, the Congenital Prophet of Devastation, Still Not a Match for the Pandemic and Systematic Racism,” one of which subtitle is “’Terrorism,’ chiefly the Prophet’s disease, so is a curable vaccine needed if the river of blood is to stop flowing’” (unless otherwise). Such a book or oeuvre, by many measures, including important information or a link post that concerns it or the Prophet Muhammad, prominently so on the Ministry of External Affairs website, Government of India, and a multitude of others, a sort of Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (abbreviated as ThLL or TLL).
The act or instance of comparing the author’s written work to the specific lexicon just mentioned, such a reference for his arguments that are principally rooted in: Theology, philosophy, sociology, economics, history, and political science.
The writer of the same certainly can be reached at: yvesisidor@wehaitians.com; by way of a telephone: 857-258-8868. And please see http://www.wehaitians.com/profile for more background information.