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FAKE ICE NOTICES REPORTED IN CHELSEA

Written by SARAH BETANCOURT Posted November 18, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

"If you receive a document similar to the one pictured below please DISREGARD"

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: chelsea, ice, immigration, news, news to us

EDITORIAL: RESIST ICE & BORDER PATROL IMMIGRATION RAIDS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 17, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

Sadly, appeals to reason don’t stop reactionary media outlets like the Boston Herald from telegraphing the falsehoods being spread by ICE and pals.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Border Patrol, Boston Somerville, DigBoston, editorial, ice, immigration, Jason Pramas, Marian Ryan, Rachael Rollins, sanctuary cities, SWAT, Trump

DEESCALATING THE HARVARD CRIMSON BOYCOTT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 13, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

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Alternatives for feuding student immigrant advocates and journalists

 

As someone who has been both a journalist and a left-wing political activist for a long time, I suppose it’s inevitable that I would feel the need to weigh in on a debate currently raging between Harvard immigrant advocates and the independent Harvard ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Act on a Dream, activist, Apparent Horizon, boston university, Boycott, bu exposure, Column, Daily Free Press, Democracy, DigBoston, First Amendment, Harvard University, ice, immigrant, Jason Pramas, Journalism, student newspaper, the Crimson

WELCOME TO HELL WORLD: DEMONSTRATORS IN BOSTON PROTEST AN UNRESPONSIVE AMAZON OVER ICE SALES

Written by LUKE ONEIL Posted September 10, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“They like to present these tools as being neutral ... but these tools are being sold to ICE and DHS specifically to track immigrants, to track activists, and to use that information across law enforcement networks to terrorize communities and split families apart."

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Amazon, Boston, DHS, ice, Luke O'Neil, Never Again Action, protests, Welcome to Hell World

SPLIT FAMILY: WITH A BORDER BETWEEN A HUSBAND AND A WIFE, A FAMILY CONSIDERS MOVING BACK TO MEXICO

Written by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ MERCADO Posted August 1, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

“Me and my wife were both applying for our residency together,” Ruben says. “But her dad got sick. She went back to Mexico and took care of some of his business after he died. I got my residency in 2015. She got a 10-year ban from the United States when she left seven years ago.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: deportation, Fitchburg, ice, immigration, immigration lawyer, lawyer, Massachusetts, Mexico, Trump

THE DREAMER: I REMEMBER GOOGLING, ‘WHAT HAPPENS TO A US CITIZEN CHILD IF AN UNDOCUMENTED PARENT IS DEPORTED?’

Written by DIG STAFF Posted July 16, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

"It feels increasingly cruel to offer what amounts to be a fairy tale, when in reality she may need great strength to overcome great threats."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AAN, Anne Frank, border, Colorado, ice, immigration, Motus, theater, Trump

UNRESPONSIVE: THE MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC RECORDS LAW FAILS THREE OUT OF THREE TIMES

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted August 22, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

That’s what’s happening with all three agencies in this case, with each one putting their own unique spin on how to circumvent the rules.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AG, attorney general, BINJ, Boston, Boston City Hall, BPD, Critical Mass, East Boston High School, ice, immigration, Marty Walsh, Mass State Police, Maura Healey, public records

BRIC OF ICE: FEEBLE STATE RECORDS LAW AIDS ICE IN MA

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted July 2, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

What’s less known is that here in Massachusetts, our feeble public records law is helping to bolster these efforts by obscuring the process through which local officials share information with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AG, attorney general, BINJ, Boston, Boston City Hall, BPD, Critical Mass, East Boston High School, ice, immigration, Marty Walsh, Maura Healey, public records

CAPE FEAR: SHERIFF SIDES WITH TRUMP AND ICE, AGAINST CONSTITUENTS AND IMMIGRANTS

Written by EOIN HIGGINS Posted February 6, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

As the debate over immigration increases in urgency, the Massachusetts sheriff and his department are about to enter into a cooperation agreement with ICE, which would operationalize local forces to assist Trump’s regime in deporting undocumented people on the Cape.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: 287(g), ACLU, Barnstable, Cape Cod, cooperation, deportation, ice, immigration, jails, Massachusetts, raids, Sheriff James Cummings, Trump

CREDIBLE FEAR: SIHAM BYAH’S ‘DEHUMANIZING’ DEPORTATION LIMBO

Written by SARAH BETANCOURT Posted December 5, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

This is not the first time that the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office has been at the center of controversy. Among other things, Bristol Sheriff Thomas Hodgson has made headlines for denying visitation rights to families of inmates, while last January he proposed sending his inmates to the southern border of the US to help build President Trump’s wall.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Bristol County, ice, immigration, Morocco, Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, Siham Byah

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