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Guatemala Illegal Immigrant Gets Stay of Deportation After Taking Refuge in Church

Matthew McDonald

The 43-year-old woman lived in a Pentecostal church in New Haven, Connecticut for six days while lawyers, assisted by a pro-immigration clinic run by Yale Law School, successfully sought a stay from a deportation order. The 1,333-word story mentions humanitarian grounds for the stay but doesn't say what they are.

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Which State Is A Basket Case Financially But Still Paying Overtime To Surveyors for Long-Term Projects?

Matthew McDonald

That's Connecticut, which is in the midst of a fiscal crisis but has surveyors taking measurements on a Saturday for a highway project on Route I-95 that won't begin until 2021. The surveyors are earning time-and-a-half pay for the Saturday work.

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