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The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing will hear testimony on bills to provide comprehensive health care to all kids, no matter what their immigration status may be.
In response to a court ruling, the non profit called for action to protect DACA recipients, whose applications could be compromised.
"So many of these workers have the type of job that didn't stop, that didn't cease during the pandemic."
A Boston refugee support center navigates a year of the pandemic.
Graphic novelist Dave Ortega recounts his grandmother’s immigration story
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 ...
Activists from 19 grassroots organizations marched through downtown Boston Sunday afternoon to protest the American Correctional Association (ACA), which was holding its annual conference at the Hynes Convention Center.
The ACA is one of the largest ...
A quarter-century ago, I lived in Lawrence for a few months. Because it was the closest place to Boston that I could find a cheap apartment on short notice. Unfortunately, I had a low-paying job in the city and couldn’t afford a car. So I took the commuter ...
I really wanted to write this because growing up, I was always really shocked how many people from outside of East Boston had never been to East Boston, or even heard of it. For too long, people have thought that it was just an airport.
