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IRIS helps immigrants with wrap-around services including legal representation. But Haitians, she said, face unique challenges from a lack of available staffers speaking Haitian Creole, to a relative lack of federal funds for legal aid compared to other nationalities. Many have arrived since 2021 after the country’s president was assassinated and a steady breakdown of public order since then, and long running economic inequality partly shaped by U.S. interference. Advocates are now looking to ...

Recipient programs have engaged local students, trained Yalies as mentors and worked to combat food insecurity in the city.