Highly-publicized federal immigration arrests and deportations in U.S. cities have sown widespread anxiety in the Island’s Brazilian community.
On Friday night Islanders will gather to call for an end detention of migrants in facilities with inadequate living conditions.
Voters in all six Island towns this year will decide whether to join a growing list of cities and towns across the country that have pledged support for their immigrant communities and existing law enforcement procedures.
Immigrants around the country and around the Island closely followed President Obama’s speech last Thursday when he unveiled a set of actions on immigration.
Engraved on the pedestal of the Statute of Liberty is a poem by Emma Lazarus with the famous lines "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled mas