Sadly, this is just the latest example of the lies and distortions that the small group of opponents of a well-planned project that will benefit every single taxpayer in Stockbridge will go to with their opposition.
Berkshire Immigrant Center is the only organization in the county offering comprehensive immigration services for the more than 10,000 foreign-born residents of Berkshire County—a number that equates not only to 10 percent of the County’s population, but also the only growing segment of the region’s population.
According to data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Berkshire County has the most diverse foreign-born population of any county in the state.
"A good citizen truly embraces the meaning of the words spoken by Elie Wiesel when he said, 'No human being is illegal.'"
-- Joan M. McMenemy, first justice of Berkshire County Juvenile Court
The book "You Can't Replace Yourself” draws from 25 years of poems, paintings and drawings created in Community Access to the Arts' weekly arts workshops.
The Aston Martin Owners Club of North America will hold the Berkshires’ first-ever Aston Martin car rally Saturday, April 14, organized by Lance Sterman of Stockbridge, the owner of an antique Aston Martin.
'We believe that our immigrant population is an essential and rich part of our Berkshire community...'
-- Berkshire Immigrant Center Executive Director Brooke Mead
Trump’s comments came in the run-up to the birthday of iconic African American civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King and the seventh anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed nearly 250,000 people.
"It was unfathomable to me that this president could do something so cruel, so un-American and, quite honestly, something that's just bad policy."
-- Brooke Mead, director of the Berkshire Immigrant Center
“The new federal action will create significant concern for the estimated 10,000 immigrants in Berkshire County as they face yet another anti-immigrant message from this White House."
--- Brooke Mead, director of the Berkshire Immigrant Center
For its new leader, the search panel chose a familiar face, Brooke Mead, who has been at BIC for 15 years, for many of those years the center’s only full-time staff member.
BerkShares Ambassadors will grow into “community economists” who can expand awareness and usage of BerkShares and are empowered to build relationships with their peers, community leaders, community banks and more than 400 businesses that participate in BerkShares.
Fear has made Pittsfield-based immigration lawyer Michele Sisselman a very busy woman lately. “It’s frightening,” she said. “And everybody is scared, including U.S. citizens.”
We don’t have a local role to play in enforcing federal immigration law. Undocumented residents should not fear calling the police for assistance or to report a crime.
-- Great Barrington Town Manager Jennifer Tabakin
These young Guatemalan men speak to me now because President-elect Donald Trump has instilled a fear that was previously limited to the dangers of crime and corruption in Guatemala and those desperate trials at the border.
