New Haven unveils emergency preparedness booklet for immigrant families

The New Haven Register ^ | July 25, 2017 | Esteban L. Hernandez

[BillyBonebrake]

NEW HAVEN >> The worried calls started a day after President Trump’s election.

Mayor Toni Harp said they came mostly from immigrant residents. It wasn’t hard to pinpoint their worries: Trump had vowed to deport undocumented immigrants and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Months later, Trump has mostly kept his word, shedding Obama-era deferment policies that once focused on undocumented immigrants with criminal records. However, now undocumented immigrants who have no criminal history are being monitored and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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The concerns led the city to partner with other local organizations to create a family emergency preparedness guide for immigrant families in the city. Concerns were heightened last week after Norwalk resident and mother of four U.S. citizen children Nury Chavarria took sanctuary at a New Haven church. ICE labeled Chavarria a fugitive, but did not specify whether or not they would enforce her removal order. Chavarria remained at the church Tuesday.

“In my mind, it speaks loudly about the harsh climate of which we now find ourselves,” Harp said.

The pocket-sized booklet on emergency preparedness for immigrants is the latest example of New Haven’s prominent status as a so-called sanctuary city, an informal term for cities where local law enforcement limits cooperation with federal authorities in enforcing immigration laws and where local officials are vocal supporters of immigrant communities.

[BillyBonebrake]

Mayor Toni Harp of New Haven, CT needs to be arrested.

[BenLurkin]

This should be on the cover:

[Tennessee Nana]

this is a booklet for illegal aliens...

immigrants don’t need this info...they don’t get deported unless they commit crimes...

[Captain Compassion]

I wonder if ICE can get a copy of the mailing list for the pamplet?

[IronJack]

undocumented immigrants who have no criminal history

Uh ... the fact that they're "undocumented" means they're in the country illegally. That's like saying "bank robbers with no history of theft."

[SaveFerris]

I assume they'll all be living in Toni Harp's home?



Talked with one liberal - yes grand ideas; sure sound good. I asked him, since you are so committed to these causes, why don't you sell your (paid-for) house and your (paid-for) Mercedes and give that money to these causes or people directly? He admitted he wasn't >>>that<<< committed to the ideas.

The money to do all these things must come from "somewhere" - you know - like magic. Of course, they don't care about natural-born American citizens who have been put out of work in their own country. Typical liberal "logic".

[SaveFerris]

Oh, now you’re gonna confuse La Raza and Aztlan.

[Ray76]

By instructing illegal aliens in evasion Mayor Harp and the City of New Haven are violating law.

8 U.S.C. § 1324 (a)(1)(A)(iii) Any person who knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation; shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B)

8 U.S.C. § 1324 (a)(1)(B)(ii) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;

5 years per violation.

Sessions should have her arrested tomorrow morning as she enters her office.

[KosmicKitty]

Mayor Harpo continues to confuse immigrants with illegal aliens.

But this stuff is so much easier to deal with than the gang violence where kids are getting shot on the street in the middle of the day in Harpo Heaven aka New Haven.

[SaraJohnson]

It’s time for the DOJ to prosecute politicians and gov. workers who break immigration laws.