Feds put ‘severely disruptive’ restrictions on applying for green cards
Local immigration attorneys say the move by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will impact thousands of people trying to adjust their statuses in Massachusetts.
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Here’s what towns targeted by the AG's lawsuit over the MBTA Act had to say
Nine Massachusetts towns and cities were served a lawsuit for failing to comply with the MBTA Communities Act. The reactions from officials in those towns ranged from dismissive to argumentative. -
Massachusetts gears up for another weekend of anti-ICE protests, strikes
Some small businesses are closing or making donations to immigrant rights groups in solidarity with Minnesota. -
Thousands of Mass. Haitians face end of temporary protected status in February
Immigrants, business leaders, and elected officials fear possible deportation -
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Healey seeks to limit courthouse immigration arrests, cooperation with ICE
The governor and top lawmakers are pushing immigration bills that would bolster due process rights and limit where — and under what circumstances — ICE can detain people in Massachusetts. -
As more residents move out of state, Massachusetts’ economic future hangs in the balance
With fewer international immigrants and people moving out of the state, experts say it’s a threat to the state economy. -
Monica Cannon-Grant sentenced to home confinement in fraud case
The Boston community activist pleaded guilty last September to several charges. -
Mass. activists who oppose ICE push for boycott of local bank
Over the last week, local activists who oppose the Trump Administration’s violent crackdown on immigrants and protesters have focused a boycott on Citizens Bank, criticizing the bank’s financing of the two of the country’s largest private operators of immigrant detention centers.
