August 27th, 2009  |  Published in 1st story

<i>At a rally held in New Haven, CT on Saturday, June 16, marchers carry signs, including this one, to protest pre-dawn raids on immigrant families by the Department of Homeland Security. (Photo credit: Professor Bop.)</i>

At a rally held in New Haven, CT on Saturday, June 16, marchers carry signs, including this one, to protest pre-dawn raids on immigrant families by the Department of Homeland Security. (Photo credit: Professor Bop.)

New Haven, Connecticut is a sanctuary city. In 2007, the town voted to allow municipal IDs for all its residents regardless of immigration status. This caught the attention of anti-immigrant activists, who decried this de-facto legalization that allowed undocumented persons to open bank accounts and get access to city services. And yet not all is peaceful in New Haven.
<i>Fr. James Winship. (Photo courtesy of New Haven Independent. Used with permission.)</i>

Fr. James Winship. (Photo courtesy of New Haven Independent. Used with permission.)


For some time, the town’s Latino immigrants have claimed harassment by local police. And recently, a catholic priest was arrested and charged with interfering with an officer in the performance of his duties. And what was the priest doing? He was videotaping police officers as they hassled a Latino small business owner.

Aswini Anburajan, a reporter with the Feet in Two Worlds Project, has a profile of this activist priest: Fr. James Manship.

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pic11 manshipwithyoungparishioner See Aswini Anburajan’s reporters notebook on her profile of Fr. James Manship from the Feet in Two Worlds website.

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