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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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Immigration-related arrests down in New England
NEW ENGLAND is seeing the lowest number of immigration-related arrests just months after Suffolk and Middlesex District Attorneys Rachael Rollins and Marian Ryan filed a federal lawsuit to keep federal...
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Immigration-related arrests down in New England
New England is seeing the lowest number of immigration-related arrests just months after Suffolk and Middlesex District Attorneys Rachael Rollins and Marian Ryan filed a federal lawsuit to keep federal...
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After Trust Act signing, Gross defensive
ONLY MOMENTS AFTER Boston Mayor Marty Walsh signed the Immigrant Trust Act, Police Commissioner William Gross fended off questions about his department previously sharing information with federal...
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Immigrants in Mass. more likely to have attorneys
CLAD IN A GREEN JUMPSUIT and chained at the hands and the feet, Ismail Garces Avila is sitting in immigration Judge John Furlong’s windowless courtroom, waiting for his bond and asylum hearings. The...
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Immigrant facing deportation cuts off monitor, flees
A BRAZILIAN IMMIGRANT who was expected to turn himself in for deportation on Tuesday cut off his electronic monitoring device and escaped. According to a filing by the Department of Justice, federal...
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MIT tells staff to expect visits from ICE
MIT has sent a memo to faculty and staff notifying them that they should expect a visit from federal authorities to assess the immigration status of researchers, postdoctoral students, and visiting...
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MIT tells staff to expect visits from ICE
MIT has sent a memo to faculty and staff notifying them that they should expect a visit from federal authorities to assess the immigration status of researchers, postdoctoral students, and visiting...
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Despite judge’s order, Iranian student deported
JUDGE RICHARD STEARNS dismissed the case of an Iranian student who was due to start school at Northeastern University but was detained by federal immigration officials on Sunday night at Logan Airport....
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Lawmakers seek answers on deported Iranian student
SEVERAL MEMBERS of the Massachusetts congressional delegation wrote letters to federal immigration officials on Thursday seeking answers on why Iranian student Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein Abadi...
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Deportation battle exposes fuzzy border line
GRANTED IT SITS right on the edge of Boston Harbor on the country’s eastern shore. But it has never seemed particularly in question that East Boston is part of the United States. But when it comes to...
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Deportation battle exposes fuzzy border line
Granted it sits right on the edge of Boston Harbor on the country’s eastern shore. But it has never seemed particularly in question that East Boston is part of the United States. But when it comes to...
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Immigration enforcement bill draws controversy at hearing
THE SAFE COMMUNITIES ACT saw its heyday on Friday with eight hours of testimony before the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security. Refiled in 2019, the Safe Communities Act limits the...
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Lelling goes off on sanctuary city movement
A week after President Trump lashed out at sanctuary cities in his State of the Union speech and days after Attorney General William Barr launched a legal offensive against them, US Attorney Andrew...
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Lelling goes off on sanctuary city movement
A week after President Trump lashed out at sanctuary cities in his State of the Union speech and days after Attorney General William Barr launched a legal offensive against them, US Attorney Andrew...
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DiZoglio defends shift on immigrant license bill
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SEN. DIANA DIZOGLIO is defending her decision to vote in favor of advancing a bill that would make driver’s licenses available to undocumented immigrants, leaning on the...
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ICE calls in reinforcements in Boston, other cities
CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION tactical team members are on the ground in Boston, and are coordinating with the local division of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to engage in immigration...
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Report: ICE upping detainer requests in Mass.
FEDERAL OFFICIALS are issuing more warrants for wanted undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts, even as the number of warrants is declining nationally. The warrants, often called detainers, are...
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Boston officials unveil new student privacy policy
BOSTON SCHOOL OFFICIALS are preparing to unveil a new, stricter student privacy plan intending to clarify what information federal immigration officials can access. But at a briefing for reporters on...
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Despite virus, business as usual at immigration courts
IMMIGRATION COURTS are full of people, often pressed together in tight quarters. But the Executive Office of Immigration Review, which runs all immigration courts, has refused to shut down courtrooms...
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