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Office of Vital Statistics employee Patricia Clarke was put on administrative leave for flagging marriage licenses for New Haven residents she believed to be immigrants in December.
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Members of Connecticut’s legislative transportation committee entered a heated debate recently over whether undocumented immigrants in the state should have special marking on their driver’s licenses that could be used to indicate their immigration status.
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OLA of Eastern Long Island reports that the number of wage theft cases among the Latino community has skyrocketed this year.
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OLA of Eastern Long Island, a Latino-focused nonprofit advocacy organization, is helping victims of wage theft, an increasingly common practice in which employers fail to pay wages or provide employee benefits.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul issued an urgent plea to the Biden administration on New York’s migrant crisis. She said the state desperately needs the federal government to help with housing and work authorizations for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers.
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OLA of Eastern Long Island is staffing up with two new lawyers to grapple with government-backed bans on incoming migrants, and to provide legal assistance for asylum seekers.
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone issued an emergency order Friday to assist New York City address a shortage of available housing for migrants legally seeking asylum. Civil rights and immigrant groups protested the County Legislature on Tuesday, calling any attempt to block migrants from the southern border would be discriminatory.
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Civil rights and immigration support groups protested Suffolk County’s plans to block migrants from relocating there, saying any lawsuit would be discriminatory. Then, legislators sidestepped the issue.
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Connecticut doctors are calling on state lawmakers to cover undocumented immigrants who financially qualify for the HUSKY Health program until age 26.
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Advocates wrote to legislators and spoke at a hearing urging Connecticut to expand Medicaid to people 25 and younger regardless of immigration status.