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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu wants to know more about what federal immigration agents are doing within city limits. To find out who U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are detaining and why. City officials will be filing Federal Freedom of Information Act requests with the Department of Homeland Security. They’ll also be asking for information about whether agents identified themselves, concealed their faces, wore uniforms or displayed badges.

“This federal administration fundamentally does not understand Boston,” Wu said. “We are taking every possible action in our city to push back and stand up for basic rights, for our freedoms and for the opportunities that we have been building here as a city whose mission every day is to be a home for everyone.”

ICE agents detained 1,461 people in Massachusetts over the month of May. One of them is a small business owner who has been in the U.S. for 26 years, said Lenita Reason, executive director of the Brazilian Worker Center in Allston. He’s now being held in Texas. Reason added that family members need more transparency around detentions.

“The only way we know that he is in Texas is because the community helped his wife to retain an attorney and was able to find out where he is,” Reason said.

Four Things to Know

1. Primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham voted to unionize last month, and administrators at the hospital system — the largest health employer in the state — now contend that the National Labor Relations Board should review their vote. At issue: whether the union should include all physicians at the hospital, not just those working in primary care.

Family doctor Madhuri Rao, who works at MGB’s Chelsea Health Care Center, called it a really common anti-union tactic: “if you can’t union bust, then you try to delay as much as possible in the hopes that people start to run out of steam or decide it’s not worth it,” Rao said.

2. A Newton judge arrested in 2019 and accused of letting an undocumented immigrant leave through a back door to avoid ICE agents is now facing a disciplinary hearing at the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct over the issue. Federal prosecutors agreed to drop criminal charges against Judge Shelley Joseph in 2022, with the agreement that the state commission will handle any discipline. David Jellinek, the defense attorney for the immigrant, José Medina Perez, testified that the case involved mistaken identity.

Medina Perez appeared in court on two counts of drug possession in Massachusetts after law enforcement flagged a warrant from Pennsylvania – which turned out to be for a different man with the same name. People in the courtroom that day, Jellinek said, were under the impression that ICE agents were looking for the person wanted in Pennsylvania. Jellinek said he asked Joseph to allow him to meet with his client in a downstairs court lockup area after the hearing instead of exiting the courtroom through its main doors, and she agreed. “Nobody told her that Medina Perez had gone out the back door. She knew nothing about it,” said Joseph’s lawyer, Elizabeth Mulvey.

3. Immigrants who come to the U.S. with education and professional training face hurdles in restarting their careers here, according to a report from The Boston Foundation and The Latino Equity Fund. Those issues include language proficiency, restrictions in immigration policies, complicated re-credentialing systems and family responsibilities.

“Many of the problems that immigrants are facing are the very same problems citizens are facing,” said Jonathan Vega-Martinez, the report’s lead researcher. “Part of helping immigrants is just fixing these problems that affect everyone.”

4. Allow us to re-introduce a Boston landmark: Boston’s Convention and Exhibition Center in the Seaport will be renamed the Thomas Michael Menino Convention and Exhibition Center next month, in honor of Boston’s longest-serving mayor.

As mayor, Menino championed the construction of the convention center to help keep Boston competitive in attracting major conventions. The center opened in 2004, about halfway through Menino’s mayoral tenure, and now has 2.1 million square feet of floor space. The new name takes effect on July 12.

Local veterans react to president’s use of military force in immigration crackdown

President Donald Trump deployed thousands of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles, over the objections of local elected officials, because of mostly peaceful protests over immigration raids. Back home in Massachusetts, some military veterans said they’re watching what’s unfolding on the West Coast.

“Personally, I don’t like to see military personnel deployed within our states because we’re trained for foreign adversaries,” said George MacMasters, who served with the U.S. Marines and Army in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan. “Sure, we’ve taken over to protect the Constitution from foreign and domestic threats, but it just strikes me as more third-world-type behavior.”

“I’m very thankful for our Constitution because it gives us the right to free speech and the right to assemble peacefully,” MacMasters said. “And that’s key. I think too many people forget that.”

In Quincy, U.S. Marine veteran Bruce Collins said he wanted to know more about why Trump made the decision to send troops to L.A. He said he believes that the military can be effective on U.S. soil if public safety is at risk. But military and police officers are trained differently, he said.

“A lot of us are trained as riflemen. I could shoot 500 yards and kill somebody. That’s the whole idea of it,” Collins said.

Collins said he believes there are scenarios where the U.S. military should be sent.

“If it was a riot, like the Watts riot or something like that, then that’s a different story,” he said, citing the 1965 incident in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, in which 34 people were killed, more than 1,000 injured, and more than 3,000 arrested. “Then combat soldiers have to go there.”

Paul Nascenzi, who lives in Sharon, was in the National Guard for six years when U.S. troops were in Vietnam. He was never activated, he said, but he knew that he could have been.

“When they tell us to do what you do, you follow orders. Whatever the orders are, when your superiors tell you to do, you do,” said Nascenzi. Today, he said, he would only support military deployment on U.S. soil as a last resort to protect public safety.

Read Robert Goulston’s full reporting here.