GHIAA Legislative Wrap-Up 2025
GHIAA leaders showed up strong in the 2025 legislative session. Check out images here.
CT lawmakers pass expanded Trust Act
by Emilia Otte at CT Mirror After a nearly four-hour debate, the Connecticut Senate approved on party lines a bill allowing individuals to sue towns and cities that cooperate with federal immigration authorities in a way that goes against state law. The bill modifies the Trust Act, Connecticut’s law outlining the circumstances under which local and state officials are […]
An inside look as activists lobby lawmakers for greater immigrant protections via the Trust Act
by Joshua Eaton, published in CT Insider Speaking with a half-dozen activists who’d come to the state capitol to lobby, State Rep. Joe Gresko pantomimed as he explained the process lawmakers were going through to negotiate a key piece of legislation. “You gotta say OK,” the Democrat from Stratford said, pointing animatedly at one […]
Advocates urge CT lawmakers to approve Trust Act expansion
Immigrant rights advocates and faith leaders packed a room at the state Capitol Thursday to pressure lawmakers to pass a bill that would place further limits on how law enforcement and businesses in the state interface with federal immigration authorities. H.B 7212 would add provisions to a current state law known as the Trust Act, which regulates […]
Immigrant advocates want strict limits on CT police cooperation with ICE
People march to the state Capitol during a rally in support of the TRUST Act on March 3, 2025. This story has been updated. Carmen Lanche remembers the morning when her husband was detained by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement back in 2019. He’d just dropped their son off at school in Norwalk, and she […]
CT immigrant rights supporters rally in Hartford
A crowd gathered at City Hall marches on the capitol building to protest ICE activities, support immigrant rights, and demand the protection of the Trust Act on March 3, 2025. Leer en español Undeterred by the cold, more than 150 immigrant rights supporters marched from Hartford City Hall to the state Capitol on Monday to […]
Advocates rally in Hartford to strengthen the Connecticut Trust Act
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A hundred people rallied on the steps of Hartford City Hall on Monday, calling to strengthen the Connecticut Trust Act. “We are here today to say that Connecticut, in the very least, should not be assisting ICE in its efforts,” Rev. Josh Pawelek at the Unitarian Universalist Society said. Bishop John […]
Immigration advocates march in hartford in support of trust act protections
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