GHIAA Special Session Update: Celebrations and Next Steps
With the special legislative session completed in November 2025, GHIAA and our allies have some big wins to celebrate! WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED We had some really important wins! Several important pieces of legislation were considered in the special session and eventually passed by both chambers and signed by the governor. Relevant to GHIAA’s issue slate […]
CT faith leaders, advocates press lawmakers to protect immigrants
by Laura Tillman published in The CT Mirror As state legislators inside the Capitol in Hartford discussed the possibility of a special session on Monday, faith leaders and immigrant advocates rallied outside the building, urging the lawmakers to prioritize immigrant safety. The large crowd had marched from the federal courthouse to the Capitol for their […]
GHIAA Love Thy Immigrant Neighbor Action
GHIAA Solidarity Vigil
Over 500 GHIAA and Hartford Deportation Defense leaders filled the lawn at Church of Christ Congregational in Newington to stand up for the 7 residents taken from their workplace by ICE agents over the weekend. At a time when families should be preparing for the school year, these families were ripped apart. Our message was […]
Summer Gathering
GHIAA Wrap-Up 2025
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 […]