From the Wikipedia,
"As of the census² of 2000, there were 123,626 people, 47,094 households, and 25,854 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,532.2/km² (6,558.4/mi²). There were 52,941 housing units at an average density of 1,084.4/km² (2,808.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 43.46% White, 37.36% African American, 0.43% Native American, 3.90% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 10.89% from other races, and 3.91% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 21.39% of the population.
Think that number might be a tad higher 7 years later, hmmm?
I don't know if it's still there, but in the 1990s there was an INS facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. I knew some of the Esmor staff at the facility, and they told me that the majority of the detainees in their NJ facility weren't illegals from the Southern Hemisphere (Central/South America), but from the Eastern Hemisphere (Europeans, Africans, and Mediterraneans) or Cuba. While the percentages may have changed since 1995 or 9/11, there's simply no way that the racial make-up of illegal immigrants in the New England states is the same as in those states along the US/Mexico border. What Connecticut is doing IMO isn't going to benefit Hispanic Mexican illegals - there's too few of them there to be a sizable voting bloc. It's posturing and pandering by the CT leftie govt. to the CT leftie voters.