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Immigrant advocates slam Trump asylum changes
IT’S INHUMANE. It’s a violation of international law. It’s not the way things have worked since the mid-1960s. These were the arguments of immigration advocates following last week’s announcement by...
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Immigrant advocates slam Trump asylum changes
It’s inhumane. It’s a violation of international law. It’s not the way things have worked since the mid-1960s. These were the arguments of immigration advocates following last week’s announcement by...
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Anti-ICE protests take aim at secondary targets
ACTIVISTS UNFURLED a large banner off the Green Monster at Fenway park Thursday night, with the words “No ICE, no prisons, no more cages.” The move, which got the immigration activists booted out of...
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Anti-ICE protests take aim at secondary targets
Activists unfurled a large banner off the Green Monster at Fenway park Thursday night, with the words “No ICE, no prisons, no more cages.” The move, which got the immigration activists booted out of...
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America needs a moral revival
WE ARE LIVING in some very dark and difficult days in America. There is a flood of rhetoric from the Trump administration that demonizes and castigates black and brown immigrants. Donald Trump himself...
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New rule could deny more immigrants green cards
AN ESTIMATED 500,000 immigrant households in Massachusetts could see their path to permanent residency cut off by a new immigration policy put forward by the Trump administration. US Citizenship and...
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ICE blindsided by order ending immigrant protection
TWO ARMS OF the Department of Homeland Security are at odds over who is taking charge of a plan that would deport individuals and children with serious medical conditions. Last week, at least 20...
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Legislators: Trump admin. gutting asylum process in New England
SENS. ED MARKEY and Elizabeth Warren and US Rep. Ayanna Pressley are accusing the Trump administration of gutting the immigration asylum process in New England by directing the agency’s Boston...
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Trump administration changes course on immigrant patients
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION abruptly changed course on Monday, allowing immigrants with serious illnesses to have their denied cases to remain in the US reopened, instead of being moved into deportation...
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Doctors: Immigration crackdown raising healthcare concerns
AT A LEGISLATIVE BRIEFING Wednesday hosted by lawmakers seeking passage of the Safe Communities Act, physicians, pediatricians, and domestic abuse prevention advocates shared anecdotes about...
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Trump reverses course on immigrant medical program
IN AN ABRUPT about-face, the Trump administration is reversing course on the recent declaration that it was ending a policy that allows seriously ill immigrants to remain in the country legally to...
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Markey, Kennedy participate at immigration roundtable
SEN. ED MARKEY and US Rep. Joe Kennedy III made a joint appearance on Tuesday at an immigration roundtable event focused on the Trump administration’s decision to cap refugee admissions at a record-low...
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Suffolk County breakup with ICE a mixed bag
The number of county jails in Massachusetts that have contracts to hold detainees for federal immigration authorities is about to go down to three. Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins announced...
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Suffolk County breakup with ICE a mixed bag
The number of county jails in Massachusetts that have contracts to hold detainees for federal immigration authorities is about to go down to three. Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins announced...
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Over 33,000 immigrants waiting for day in Boston’s immigration court
FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS of New England immigrants, the long wait time for a day before an immigration judge has gone from bad to worse. For unaccompanied minors, or young immigrants who are in the US...
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Supreme Court hears DACA arguments
ALMOST 6,000 MASSACHUSETTS immigrants — and 660,000 nationwide — are on edge, waiting for the US Supreme Court to determine their fate. The nation’s high court heard arguments on Tuesday from several...
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Homeland Security proposes tougher work permit rules for asylum seekers
THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY proposed a new policy on Wednesday that denies work permits to asylum seekers who cross the border illegally and increases from six months to a year the amount of...
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Safe Communities Act needed now
AS WE GATHER this holiday season to reaffirm our commitment to family and community, people of good will have an opportunity to raise our collective voice to urge Gov. Charlie Baker and the...
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Q&A: Business coalition backs pro-immigrant legislation
THREE YEARS into the presidency of Donald Trump, the main ways immigrants can remain in the country legally – through a protected status or with one of over 160 types of visas – have changed...
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McKinsey & Company expose has ripple effect
A STORY DOCUMENTING how international strategic consulting firm McKinsey & Co. worked with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reduce food and medical costs to levels below federal...
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