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🌂A chance of showers with highs in the 70s. Sunset is at 7:37 p.m., like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ ode to fan mail. 

Today we’ll dig into what’s next for Boston’s status as a sanctuary city (and what that even means.) But first: attention residents of Boston, Worcester, Cambridge, Somerville, Quincy and Everett — you have a local election coming up this fall. Primary election dates vary — Sept. 2 in Worcester and Quincy, Sept. 9 in Boston and Sept. 16 in Somerville — but general elections are Nov. 4.

Your local officials don’t make federal laws or appoint Supreme Court justices, but they can have a massive impact on your life. School committees can shape how schools operate, mayors fix (or don’t fix) that pothole or cracked sidewalk at the end of your street, and city councilors decide how much money goes to your local community centers, libraries and other institutions in your community. My GBH colleagues Lisa Wardle and Hannah Reale put together a helpful primer with key election dates and what’s on the ballot in each community — you can find it here.

Four Things to Know

1. After the Trump administration revoked the legal status of about 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, here under the temporary protected status program, some local immigrants said they’re anxiously awaiting court rulings about the program’s fate, GBH’s Sarah Betancourt reports.

Without legal status, “I won’t be able to take my daughter to school anymore,” said Jesus Romero, who is from Honduras and has lived in the U.S. for 27 years. (Sarah wrote more extensively about his story last month.) “I won’t be able to drive. My driver’s license would be canceled. Benefits of health insurance would be canceled.”

2. Middle school students in Provincetown started a pen-pal program with teenagers in Mertarvik, Alaska — a village on the Bering Sea, 500 miles west of Anchorage. Both communities are dealing with climate change and flooding: the Alaskan students have had to move after their former village, Newtok, deteriorated because of permafrost thaw.

“It makes me so happy talking to people who understand, like, climate change is happening,” said Provincetown International Baccalaureate Schools student Bella Wirthwein, 13.

3. Some American grocery stores are installing electronic pricetags on their shelves, and advocates are worried that means they’ll be targeting specific shoppers with higher prices. A Massachusetts lawmaker is trying to get ahead of the issue, writing a bill that would prohibit stores from using biometric data like facial recognition for dynamic pricing.

“While this technology has not yet spread widely in Massachusetts, it’s an imminent threat, with large chains like Kroger and Walmart already rolling it out across the country,” said Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, a Democrat from Northampton.

4. Yesterday was the sweetest day of summer: the 40th annual Massachusetts Tomato Contest in Boston’s Haymarket, where farmers from across the state come to show off their finest heirlooms, cherry tomatoes and sliceable nightshades.

“There’s nothing like a fresh tomato that’s grown locally,” said Rep. James Arena-DeRosa, a member of the contest’s judging panel. “It’s so different from what you get in a supermarket.”

'Stop attacking our cities’: Boston mayor responds to Trump administration on sanctuary cities

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu responded to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s demand that the city eliminate laws, policies and practices that the Trump administration sees as impeding federal immigration enforcement with a full press conference — and a simple answer: no.

“Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures,” Wu said, per GBH News reporter Saraya Wintersmith. “Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law, and Boston will not back down from who we are and what we stand for.”

Bondi had sent letters to 32 cities, counties and states saying they have local laws that “impede federal immigration enforcement.” Boston, which has a decade-old law saying police can only cooperate with immigration agents if there are also criminal charges involved, was the only Massachusetts community on that list. The state itself was not listed, but the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont are named as well. 

“Under the Trump administration, groceries are less affordable, housing is harder to build, cures for cancer are farther away and good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list,” Wu said. “But as always, cities are doing everything we can to protect our residents and keep moving forward.”

So what does this mean for Boston now? It’s not totally clear. When asked to comment on Wu’s response, a spokesperson for the Justice Department pointed to Bondi’s recent comments on Fox News threatening actions like withholding federal funding and sending in military “just like we did during the LA riots, and just like we’re doing here in Washington, D.C.”

The matter of whether the federal government can force local police departments to take part in immigration enforcement — which is governed by civil statutes, not criminal law — is the subject of lawsuits working their way through courts across the country.

We’ll keep you updated with the latest as it happens. Read Saraya Wintersmith’s full reporting on yesterday’s comments from Mayor Wu here. 

Dig deeper: 

-Local sanctuary cities make case to keep federal funds off Trump admin’s chopping block

-Chelsea and Somerville sue Trump administration over sanctuary city practices

-Homeland Security pulls down list of 'sanctuary’ cities and counties after backlash

-Is Boston really America’s safest major city? Wu says yes. But the numbers aren’t so clear.

From 2022: What is a sanctuary city? The history of immigrant sanctuary and how the term became a 'dirty word’

-Is Massachusetts a 'sanctuary’ state?