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By EMILEE KLEIN
AMHERST — Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant and Bar closed on Thursday amid a rumor that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had raided and detained five employees the previous evening.
By SAMUEL GELINAS
BOSTON — Pro-immigrant nonprofits, organizers, and politicians from across the state are bracing for a second Trump presidency as they seek to protect the state’s undocumented population — and a letter recently addressed to Gov. Maura Healey may give...
By SARAH PARVINI, GARANCE BURKE AND JESSE BEDAYN
President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence...
By SAMUEL GELINAS
NORTHAMPTON — Even many in Donald Trump’s circle are unsure whether the president-elect intends to follow through on his often expansive, and some would say, hyperbolic rhetoric — the kind of exaggerated speech that heralded a “big, beautiful wall”...
By EMILEE KLEIN
SOUTH HADLEY — When Mount Holyoke College researchers Serin Houston and Anatasica Tucker talk about their recently completed database of migrant sanctuary policies enacted across the country, they can’t help but laugh at the sheer amount of work they...
By ADA DENENFELD KELLY
EASTHAMPTON — When Marie Andrades lived in Haiti, she worked as a nurse. Now, sheltering with her mother and baby in Northampton, she is looking to find employment where she can make use of her transferable skills.“I [studied] nursing in Haiti. I have...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Less than a month after one of its attorneys was invited to visit the White House, a prominent immigration law firm in Northampton will shut down at the end of the month.The law firm Curran, Berger & Kludt, also known as CBK immigration,...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
AMHERST — On the 10th floor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Center, Samuel Noel, a welder by trade, works as a dishwasher — his first job in the United States.Noel, a Haitian immigrant who moved to Greenfield’s Days Inn shelter on...
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
An executive pastry chef who directs bakery operations for UMass Dining is one of 125 women recognized as a Commonwealth Heroine earlier this month in Boston. Pamela Adams of Greenfield received the award from the Massachusetts Commission on the...
By JAMES PENTLAND
NORTHAMPTON — When President Biden stepped to the podium in the East Room of the White House last Tuesday to announce a major change in immigration policy, a Northampton attorney was there to witness the moment.Dan Berger said he was invited to the...
By MADDIE FABIAN
NORTHAMPTON — For many people covered under the immigration policy that offers work permits to people brought to the United States as children — known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA — this country is the only one they know....
By COLIN A. YOUNG
With Massachusetts straining under an overburdened emergency shelter system and staring down a shortfall of workers, a group of more than 60 Bay State lawmakers is sending a letter urging the White House and Congress to work with haste to find a...
By ALISON KUZNITZ
Nearly $2 million in federal dollars will flow into Massachusetts and Boston city coffers to tackle the migrant housing crisis, with the money arriving just over a week after Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency due to strained shelter...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — For Claudia Rosales, getting a driver’s license in Massachusetts has been a decade in the making.“I’m just waiting to get my birth certificate, because my old one expired,” said Rosales, who came to the United States from El Salvador in...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Standing on the steps of the downtown Amherst church he now calls home, Lucio Perez on Thursday afternoon asked the community to provide him strength as he continues to face the possibility that he will be deported and separated from his...
By AMANDA DRANE
NORTHAMPTON — Longtime Hampshire County resident Niberd Alzendi Abdalla has been held for deportation for seven weeks, and advocates say he now needs a wheelchair to get around the halls of the facility containing him.Organizers expressed concern for...
By AMANDA DRANE
NORTHAMPTON — Months of vague threats by Donald Trump’s administration against sanctuary cities like Northampton and Amherst just evolved into something more specific.U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that police departments would...
By AMANDA DRANE
NORTHAMPTON — Ellen McShane said she’s been instructed to pack her fiance’s bag in preparation for what could be his deportation to Iraq later this month.Niberd Alzendi Abdalla, 57, came to the U.S. at 15, and now after over 40 years here, the...
By JACQUES BILLEAUD
PHOENIX — The political career of Joe Arpaio ended last year when the six-term sheriff of metro Phoenix known for cracking down on illegal immigration and housing inmates in tents outside in the desert heat was trounced in an election that focused on...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
AMHERST — In what is believed to be a first in the region, the Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee has unanimously approved a policy designed to protect undocumented students. The policy on the protection of undocumented students states that...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
EASTHAMPTON — Fourth and fifth grade students studying immigration from Europe to America during the 20th century had an opportunity to learn the topic through theater.Over the past two months, students at the Hilltown Cooperative Charter School...
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