Activists lobby for immigrants - Connecticut

“While Congress last Friday passed a bill approving the construction of a wall along the Mexican border, local immigrant activists like Lugo are organizing statewide to address the more mundane struggles of undocumented immigrants in Connecticut - raids by ICE, abusive landlords, unsafe work conditions, and petty crime that they are afraid to report to police. Mayors, the activists say, have a surprising amount of power over the welfare of immigrants in their towns, independent of inaction on the federal level.

“Mayors around the country are changing their own laws in their cities,” said Hartford-based activist Marela Zacarias. “They’re criminalizing immigrants. Police are calling Immigration on immigrants all the time.”"

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