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No ICE raids in region this week, but rumors whipped fear throughout immigrant community
01-31-2025 8:34 PM

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.

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Trump staff accuse Gov. Healey of ‘lawlessness’ on immigration
01-04-2025 10:15 AM

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...


Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump’s promised crackdown on immigration
12-29-2024 11:04 AM

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...


Amherst forum explores fears and perspectives on coming immigration crackdown
12-20-2024 7:41 PM

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”...


Mount Holyoke researchers unveil interactive archive, story map of US immigration sanctuary policies
09-10-2024 8:25 AM

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...


MassHire, Riverside Industries partner on job fair to connect Haitian refugees with employment
08-18-2024 10:01 AM

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...


Prominent immigration law firm in Northampton to close, affecting 30-plus employees
07-17-2024 4:31 PM

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,...


Opening doors for immigrants: UMass Dining’s Pam Adams finds work for Haitian community
07-17-2024 12:05 PM

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...


UMass dining chef recognized with heroine award for work supporting refugees
06-27-2024 2:15 PM

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...


Work earns local a trip to White House: City attorney attends ceremony where Biden announces major change to immigration policy
06-23-2024 7:00 AM

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...


A pathway to protection: Northampton lawyers creating a model clinic to provide long-term immigration options for DACA recipients
12-07-2023 5:25 PM

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....


Mass. lawmakers: Immigrants can plug gaping labor force holes
09-21-2023 7:55 PM

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...


Feds delivering $1.9M for migrant housing in Mass. 
08-20-2023 7:27 PM

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...


With rush on for new immigrant licenses, advocates help migrants prepare
07-07-2023 8:11 PM

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...


Man facing deportation finds sanctuary at Amherst church
10-20-2017 9:59 AM

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...


Volunteers call, write on behalf of ailing Iraqi man awaiting deportation
07-28-2017 2:34 PM

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...


Feds threaten to strip police grants from sanctuary cities
07-27-2017 10:29 AM

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...


Rallygoers: Bring Abdalla home
07-12-2017 1:25 PM

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...


Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio to defend reputation at criminal trial
06-23-2017 2:09 PM

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...


Amherst schools to protect undocumented students
05-05-2017 12:28 AM

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...


Telling tales of courage
04-28-2017 10:54 PM

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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