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Historian Colin Caplan Dishes on New Haven's Food Scene
By: Bella Aldo and Linnea Mize
Colin Caplan, historian and pizza enthusiast, visited Hamden Hall on Friday, October 19. He told Hamden Hall students about immigration in New Haven, Conn.
Mr. Caplan shared interesting statistics about the many different people who have come to New Haven over the centuries. Surprisingly, the maps showed neighborhoods very much of divided by ethnicity, income, and country of origin.
Not only did Mr. Caplan talk about immigration, he talked about how much immigrants impacted the food here in the Elm City. Immigrants today continue to influence the food scene, such as Miya's sustainable sushi andthe many food trucks on Long Wharf can transport you to the beach in Mexico.
New Haven has helped so many cultures shine, that is what is so unique about this community.
Asylum in USA
According to USCIS, seeking asylum means someone is asking for political protection from another country because they cannot return to their own country. An asylum-seeker must prove they faced persecution in their home country due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinions.
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If you are eligible for asylum you may be permitted to remain in the United States. To apply for Asylum, file a Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal, within one year of your arrival to the United States. There is no fee to apply for asylum. For asylum applications filed on or after April 1, 1997, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) states that the initial interview should take place within 45 days after the date the application is filed.
Re: changes in asylum rules
The rules for getting asylum nowadays have changed a lot. Like Mr.George, Director of IRIS said, “If the rules ten years ago were like today’s, refugees like Aiti and Ahmed (two of our panelists) wouldn’t be here today.”
From NY TIMES
LOS ANGELES — A caravan of migrants from Central America that recently trekked to the California border has grabbed the attention of the news media and President Trump. Of the 300 or so who made it to Tijuana, at least 150 are expected to claim asylum in the United States.“The likelihood of them getting asylum is very minimal,” said Thomas Haine, a former trial attorney for Immigration and Customs Enforcement who is now in private practice in San Diego.
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According to The Daily Beast’s article:”Want Asylum in America? Get Ready for Hell.”,
Under Trump, the already-arduous process of seeking asylum has become nearly unbearable. The biggest hurdle for the migrants is convincing an immigration judge that they belong to a particular social group — gay, transgender or a child soldier, for example — that could entitle them to asylum, since they can no longer argue that they face persecution based on race, religion, nationality or political opinions.
Generally, Central American migrants are fleeing gangs, drug cartels or other violence. But fearing for one’s life isn’t a guarantee that the US will grant you asylum.
Head of IRIS Says Immigrants Boost Economy
By Jake Palluzzi and Will Christman
Many people think that immigrants are taking people's jobs, but a group of panelists who were at Hamden Hall Country Day School say differently.
Chris George, the head of Integrated Refugee and Immigration Services (IRIS), says that “immigrants strengthen the economy”. Immigrants do strengthen the economy because “they take jobs that Americans are not willing to do,” Chris George says. These jobs include cleaners,cashiers, and labor. Mr.George points out the irony that some Americans claim that immigrants take their jobs.
Chris George also says that “immigrants build up companies”. Immigrants build up companies because they are willing to take the jobs. Lots of immigrants are looking for jobs and could fill up companies with many workers.
Without this work force many companies would have a hard time finding employees willing to accept the low wages that these positions offer. This is another reason of immigrants (and refugees) strengthening and helping the economy.
On October 24th, 2018 NHPR, Hornets on Air met with Mr. Jungkiet, he is a reverend at a church in Old Lyme, CT. Mr. Jungkeit fellow reverends, and volunteers helped keep a couple of undocumented immigrants safe. The family was in the church for seven months or 212 days. They had a daughter, but she is a U.S. citizen so she stayed with fellow relative. She visit family on weekends and goes to school. When the daughter visited on the weekend she stayed with them. Those seven months were tough for the family because, as Mr.Jungkeit said, “It’s like a prison.” He was afraid they were going to be taken in the middle of the night, so he stayed with them for a few days. Overall it changed him. It changed him because he got to see what people go through with his very own eyes. It was interesting to hear about what happened I can’t imagine what it would have been like to see it.
Process of a noun-citizen of US become a US citizen
There is lot of people that is from other country who want to become a us citizen, because US is a superpower right now. Some of the people were forced to leave their country, and the only thing they can do is to flee to other country. And of course US is their best choice, but after they arrived the will be counted as undocumented immigrants. So they are the hardest person to become a citizen. So today, Hornets on air will talk about how to become a us citizen. Naturalization is the process of a foreign born to become a US citizen.
For a person from other country to become a citizen of US, you need these thing. You can apply for naturalization when you have a Green Card, You have to be at least 18 years old at the time of filing, you have to be able to read, write, and speak basic English and a person of good moral character.There are 100 civics questions on the citizenship test. During your naturalization interview, you will be asked up to 10 questions from the list of 100 questions. You must correctly answer at least 6 of the 10 questions to pass the civics test.For order to pass the reading test, You must read one out of three sentences correctly to show that you have an ability to read in English.For order to pass the writing test, You must write one out of three sentences correctly to show that you have an ability to write in English. The USCIS interviewer will determine your ability to speak English based on you N-400 application. Now that you know what will be required to pass naturalization exam, how do you go about studying for it? Our Citizenship Study Guide has covered the areas necessary to prepare and pass the US Citizenship test.
Recently, NHPR staff interviewed Caprice Taylor Mendez. Ms. Mendez was a refugee from Central America with her family, who came here as a young child. After her family came here, they were counted as undocumented immigrants, She didn’t know that before her family get the US citizenship, so they went through a lot to get their citizenship.When the day they got it, they were so happy, because they can live without being afraid of being detained or deported. Now Ms Mendez is working at Community Foundation for Greater New Haven to help the immigrants.
-by Eric He
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