Stamford gains state backing to protect undocumented residents despite federal deportation plans

By Eddy Martinez, CT Public Radio

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said Tuesday the state will do what it can to protect the estimated over 100,000 undocumented people that live in Connecticut, as the state braces for a wave of federal deportations.

“It is going to be and is the policy of the state of Connecticut to honor, respect, protect and defend immigrants and immigrant families, and that is exactly what we are going to do,” Tong said.

Tong spoke at the Ferguson Library in Stamford where he attempted to explain possible next steps by President elect Donald Trump, who ran on an anti-immigrant platform.