NH's Immigration Story

Here’s how North Country representatives voted on a resolution passed by the House Wednesday to express support for Arizona’s controversial immigration law.

The resolution is HCR2.

Part of the Arizona law requires the police to determine the immigration status of a person they have detained and whether the suspect is in the country illegally. The U.S. Supreme Court has said in December it would consider the law, NPR has reported.

The House resolution to support the law passed 243 – 102.

Nine North Country representatives voted in favor:

* Duffy Daugherty (Republican) of Colebrook.

Every year New Hampshire takes in hundreds of refugees from all around the world.

They have fled wars, persecution, and even torture in their home countries, and some bear scars – both inside and out. After the trauma they have endured some refugees arrive with undiagnosed mental illness, but identifying and treating these patients is no easy task.

Take Colette Ramazani for example. She came to New Hampshire from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2000. She’s in her thirties: short, well-dressed, and quick to smile.

An uber-creative couple's ambitious project tells the stories of immigrants, and unpacks the complicated consequenes of globalization.

President Barack Obama has set a record number of deportations last fiscal year, removing nearly 400,000 illegal immigrants.

Despite this, a new administration policy set in August allows undocumented immigrants without criminal records to stay in the United States.

Seven months ago 19-year old Juan Valdez had to appear in a Nashua courtroom for driving without a license.

The Manchester resident had been undocumented since he came to the U-S from Mexico at age three.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials caught wind of Valdez’s undocumented status,  he was promptly arrested.

Valdez says he was sure he’d be deported.

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