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Hundreds of people came to Boston City Hall yesterday to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles, as well as President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to the city.

“They want to fuel this narrative that Trump is going to restore order to the country, but working people know better, and we are standing up,” said Dave Foley, president of SEIU Local 509. He decried the arrest of David Huerta, president of SEIU California and SEIU-USWW. We have some video from the Boston protest here. 

Gov. Maura Healey was among 22 governors who signed a letter calling Trump’s deployment of the guard “an alarming abuse of power.” The last time a president deployed the National Guard without the governor’s approval was in 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson deployed it against civil rights protestors marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

“The disturbance was minor and under control,” retired federal judge Nancy Gertner said on Boston Public Radio yesterday. “The language of the order would seem to give Trump the authority to do this anywhere in the United States at any time… this is in part about Los Angeles, but is mostly about an extraordinary usurpation of power.”

Four Things to Know:

1. Yesterday was the first day of a new travel ban for people from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. For Fikiri Amisi, 40, who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and now lives in Springfield, the ban means his brothers and cousins won’t be able to come visit.

“This happened to me in 2017,” he said. Some of them live in refugee camps, he said. “When I heard about this travel ban —- it’s like having pain over pain in their lives.”

2. A judge in Plymouth County threw out a lawsuit challenging the MBTA Communities Act, a 2021 law requiring cities and towns with MBTA stops to approve denser housing. A collection of municipalities had argued that the law is an unfunded order from the state.

“Even if [the law] was an unfunded mandate, the Municipalities have failed to allege sufficient facts concerning any anticipated amounts associated with future infrastructure costs beyond a speculative level,” Plymouth Superior Court Justice Mark Gildea said. The towns that brought the lawsuit are Marshfield, Middleton, Hanson, Holden, Hamilton, Duxbury, Wenham, Weston and Wrentham.

3. UMass Boston researchers have published a survey of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans living in Massachusetts — the Bay State’s fastest-growing racial group, but one that researchers and pollsters often miss — said Paul Watanabe, director of the UMass Boston Institute for Asian American Studies.

The survey’s respondents are most concerned with the cost of living, and about 30% of them had issues affording housing. “This report is a powerful starting point, but only if we use it. Let’s ensure these findings don’t sit on a shelf,” said Jaya Savita, director of the Asian and Pacific Islanders Civic Action Network.

4. The Museum of Fine Arts is hosting a retrospective by Roxbury artist John Wilson, who may be best known for his big head sculptures. He often drew and sculpted people he saw around him in Roxbury. Wilson died in 2015. You can see selected works from the exhibit here. 

“Wilson explored issues of Black dignity, racial injustice, economic precarity,” said Edward Saywell, co-curator of the exhibit at the MFA. “It is work in which he wholeheartedly believed could change perception and understanding to empower us all. And fundamentally, at the heart of all of this work, was his belief in a common humanity, in what he described as the beauty of all people.”

For blind and low-vision nature lovers, birding is 'by ear’

Sure, birders can identify feathered specimens by sight: the red plumes of a cardinal, the brown belly and white cheek stripe on the black-capped chickadee, the orange plumage on a Baltimore oriole.

But not all birders can rely on sight — and they can still get plenty out of the experience without it. A few weeks ago a group of about 20 blind and low-vision birders came to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge for the first national blind birder bird-a-thon, identifying birds by their calls.

“Birding is largely by ear,” said Martha Steele, who helped organize the group. “You can get to be a very good birder, just by learning the songs.”

The birders walked through the cemetery’s path, some listening and others tracking bird calls on their phones. They heard about 30 different birds in all.

“As a congenitally blind person, I have not experienced the visual joy that other people have readily available to them… And birding has been one way that I feel I’ve been able to bridge that gap,” said Jerry Berrier, who has been birding for more than 50 years. His foray into birding started with records of bird calls when he was in college. “It’s enriching in ways that it’s hard for me to even describe.”

Read the full report from Meghan Smith and Elena Eberwein — and listen to some bird calls here.