In a filing today, Customs says it would never think of disobeying a court order, like the one directing agents at Logan to let Dr. Rasha Alawieh stay here at least until a hearing at 10 this morning. Still, the government is now asking that US District Court Judge Leo Sorokin simply dismiss Alawieh's case, which wold effectively bar her from returning. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 3:32pm
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By adamg - Sun, 03/16/2025 - 4:07pm
A federal judge today ordered that federal prosecutors tell him why Customs agents at Logan Airport decided to detain a Providence doctor with an H1-B visa, held her at the airport and then shipped her out of the country on Friday before she could even make the case to stay. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 10:49pm
GBH has a good (if also sad and infuriating) story about ICE officers nosing around East Boston stores and businesses, asking questions they have no right to ask and even trying doors when they think no one is looking. Thing is, they keep running into people who know their rights, like they don't have to answer questions posed by people without warrants - and they have security cameras, so they see you trying those doors.
By adamg - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 9:11am
The cities of Chelsea and Somerville today filed suit against what they call an unconstitutional federal policy to cut off all aid to cities where police refuse to participate in raids to round up immigrants regardless of whether they face criminal charges. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 02/02/2025 - 8:29pm
The Huntington News reports on e-mail from the Northeastern sociology and anthropology department that urges readers not to interact with any ICE agents, but instead send them to the school's legal office: "Even if they say they have a warrant, do not assume the warrant is valid."
By adamg - Mon, 01/27/2025 - 10:27pm
Boston.com posts a copy of the genial invite from House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, who is now heavily invested in sniffing out immigrants under all the beds now that he can no longer continue his crusade against Hunter Biden, given Biden's pardon and the fact that Comer's star witness against him has pleaded guilty to making up shit about the Bidens (and also evading taxes). Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 01/23/2025 - 10:26pm
Chelsea City Manager Fidel Maltez e-mailed residents today: Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 01/23/2025 - 2:20pm
WCVB reports on arrests last night, including outside the Chelsea Market Basket.
By adamg - Tue, 01/21/2025 - 3:23pm
Massachusetts and 17 other states and two cities wasted no time today suing to block an order that tries to outlaw the 14th Amendment's "birthright citizenship" - the right of people born on American soil to be American citizens. Read more
By adamg - Tue, 01/21/2025 - 2:10pm
Watertown News reports on Chief Justin Hanrahan's comments at a Martin Luther King Day breakfast yesterday.
By adamg - Mon, 01/20/2025 - 12:37pm
Lawyers for Civil Rights today launched its Immigrant Defense Hotline at 617-988-0606 to help people "facing imminent threats related to immigration enforcement, such as immigration raids or mass deportations." Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 11/20/2024 - 12:58pm
By adamg - Wed, 03/13/2024 - 11:30am
WFXT reports a "small number" of cases of the highly infectious virus were discovered last month at the temporary shelter at the Melnea Cass recreation center, but that there have been no new cases since public-health workers began vaccinating people there on March 1.
By adamg - Wed, 02/14/2024 - 10:14am
Our Lady Help of Christians Parish on Washington Street in Nonantum had been providing emergency shelter for up to 30 migrant families since November, but only went public with the news yesterday, after rumors began spreading about violence at its campus - rumors the parish says are completely wrong. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 08/08/2023 - 11:07am
Gov. Healey today declared a state of emergency because the state is running out of room to house all the migrants coming here - we're currently at 20,000 individuals in state shelters. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 1:09pm
WBUR reports Boston Medical Center had been letting new migrant families shelter in its lobbies until they could find more permanent housing, but says it was getting too many people and so had to send some of them to Logan Airport - which says, no, don't do that.
By adamg - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 5:03pm
Three of the Venezuelans who got booted off a plane from Texas on Martha's Vineyard today sued Florida officials and the two people with fake names - Perla and Emmanuel - who lied to get them on a plane that left them on Martha's Vineyard where, at least, people reacted by trying to help them rather than chortling about owning the libs. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 09/16/2022 - 2:41pm
WCAI reporter Jeanette Barnes reports that one of the first people to meet the Venezuelans shipped from Texas by the governor of Florida after they were moved to Joint Base Cape Cod today was Katiuska Valiente. Valiente, is a native Venezuelan and former Univision Nuea Inglaterra anchor who co-owns Peka Restaurant in Brighton Center, which serves Venezuelan food - which she brought with her for the immigrants.
By adamg - Thu, 09/15/2022 - 9:55am
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