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Robert, 24, grew up in Haiti and studied nursing in the Dominican Republic. When staying in those two countries was no longer an option for him, he came to Massachusetts under the immigration parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. He got a job as an aide at Edgewood LifeCare Community in North Andover.

Then in May he got a call from work: the Trump administration was getting rid of his legal immigration status altogether, and Edgewood could no longer employ him.

“When they said, ‘you won’t be able to work,’ I’m like, my God. I cried. Because I had a good relationship with the clients and they love me so much. They love me so much because I took good care of them,” Robert told GBH News reporter Sarah Betancourt. 

Robert is far from alone: the 1199SEIU union estimated that the Trump administration recently revoked legal permits for about 500 of their workers. Now Robert is unable to work, his remaining colleagues are stretched thin and people who need help with things like getting dressed and eating are left with fewer aides who can assist them. This is the first time immigrants in Massachusetts impacted by this issue are publicly sharing their story with reporters — you can read the full deep-dive into this issue here.

Four Things to Know

1. Local immigrants who obtained legal status through the Biden-era CBP One app — and had it revoked under the Trump administration — are now suing. The complaint says they went from “living in the United States legally to being deemed 'illegal aliens’ overnight.”

“We are talking about hundreds of thousands of people who lost their jobs, their homes, and their access to food, health care, and they even now face the threat of detention or deportation back to dangerous conditions,” said Ciro Valiente, a spokesperson for the Venezuelan Association of Massachusetts.

2. Cannabis Control Commission Chair Bruce Stebbins said the charges faced by Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins — he is accused of extorting $50,000 in stock from a cannabis company seeking to open in Massachusetts — shine a light on the difficulties the industry faces due to its lack of access to commercial banking. Because marijuana is illegal at the federal level, banks are often prohibited from doing business with cannabis-related companies.

“You don’t really have the opportunity to go to your bank and get out a loan to start your business up, so you rely on friends and family and other investors, and folks need to be mindful of what those payment terms might be,” Stebbins told GBH’s Tori Bedford.

3. Massachusetts is getting a new-to-us official category of health care worker: certified medication aides. These workers will be employed in long-term care facilities and help administer medications to residents. Licensed nurses and doctors will supervise, and certified medication aides won’t be allowed to dispense narcotics.

There are similar workers already on the job in 35 states. Susan Misiorski, speaking for the Massachusetts Senior Care Association, said she hoped they’ll help address a worker shortage of 5,000 caregivers in nursing facilities. “This regulation offers timely, responsible and safe standards for implementing the certified medication aide role,” she said.

4. The boys on the Braintree American Little League team are representing New England today in the Little League Baseball World Series in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Today’s game, against a team from Irmo, South Carolina, starts at 3 p.m.

“I’m most excited about the big stage we’re playing on. Representing New England now,” player Owen Kippenhan said. “And it’s good playing with all your friends.”

Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI funding

To digitize its historical collections and make them more accessible to the public, the Boston Public Library is collaborating with OpenAI and Harvard Law School. So what will the project accomplish, and what does it mean for the future of both libraries and AI?

First, the details: library officials want to digitize 5,000 documents by the end of this year, including 19th-century congressional reports, surveys and oral histories. It’s a big and fragile collection: workers have to scan each page by hand, going through 300-400 pages an hour. And labor-intensive projects like this are, well, pricey.

That’s where Harvard and OpenAI come in. The Harvard Law School Library’s Institutional Data Initiative has been helping institutions like libraries and museums digitize their old collections — and in return for the help, the libraries let OpenAI train its large language models on the collections being digitized.

“It’s a two-way street, where we are improving data in a way that will help AI, but those improvements work their way back into the library,” said Greg Leppert, the Institutional Data Initiative’s executive director. “So it improves the patron experience as well.”

Also, the records in question may be more reliable than some information OpenAI can scrape from the open web, and 19th-century government reports have no active copyrights — and even if they did, writers of these reports and documents are no longer alive and able to sue.

“ I think this is a really worthwhile partnership out of which we are going to get more accessible collections,” said Jessica Chapel, the Boston Public Library’s chief of digital and online services. “It really is an incredible repository of primary source materials covering the whole history of the United States as it has been expressed through government publications.”

Michael Hanegan, who wrote the book “Generative AI and Libraries: Claiming Our Place in the Center of a Shared Future,” advised libraries to be thoughtful when they consider these partnerships. 

“The kind of 'move fast and break things’ ethos of Silicon Valley is counter to the values of librarianship, which are about access and transparency,” Hanegan said. “This is all moving so fast: the technology is moving fast, the companies are moving fast and libraries work on a very different timescale.”

Read the full story from NPR’s Chloe Veltman here.