About 26 Nicaraguan citizens have arrived in New Bedford in recent months. They say they left their country because there is no future, and criticism of the government is seen as a crime that can cost them their lives or years in prison.
Category: Immigration
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El explosivo aumento de inmigrantes nicaragüenses en New Bedford
Alrededor de 26 ciudadanos de Nicaragua han llegado a New Bedford en los últimos meses. Dicen que dejaron su país porque no hay futuro y donde la crítica al gobierno es vista como un crimen que puede costar la vida o años de presidio.
Posted inJourney to America
New Bedford immigrant finds business success after perilous trip from Guatemala
Morales is one of only a few Guatemalans in the area who have obtained American citizenship. Not only is she a naturalized U.S. citizen, but she also opened her own business — the Tortilleria Guatemalteco — on Acushnet Avenue.
Posted inElection 2022
State votes ‘yes’ on driver’s license question; Bristol County doesn’t agree
State votes ‘yes’ on driver’s license question; Bristol County doesn’t agree
Posted inElection 2022
Video: Do you agree that immigrants without legal documents should be allowed to obtain driver’s licenses?
After lawmakers passed an immigrant driver’s license law in June, there’s a proposal to strike it down in the Nov. 8 statewide election.
Posted inThe Chat
Watch The Chat: Should the undocumented immigrants driver’s license law be repealed?
The Chat examines the effort to repeal the law that grants driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants.
Posted inThe Light on radio
The Light on Radio: Joining the MBTA, driver’s licenses for the undocumented and a downtown methadone clinic
Watch Jack Spillane discuss the latest news in New Bedford, including whether the city should join the MBTA, the ballot question on whether undocumented immigrants should get driver’s licenses, a […]
Posted inJack Spillane column
Driver’s license vote will tell us a lot about New Bedford’s pride in being a city of immigrants
We are going to vote in November on whether these folks who live such meager lives among us should be able to legally obtain a driver’s license and travel to their jobs and wherever else their lives take them.
Posted inCommunity Voices
Letters to the Light: Not everyone sees eye-to-eye on migrant story, immigration
Reader: They don’t belong here, have no rights and need to be on a plane back to Mexico or Venezuela. What part of illegal don’t you understand?
Posted inImmigration
Gov. Baker vents about ‘screwed up’ immigration system
“Sending people all over the country, many of whom have no idea why they’re being sent (or) where they’re going, isn’t a solution to the very screwed up immigration system that we have in the U.S.” — Gov. Charlie Baker