A federal judge in Boston granted a temporary restraining order April 11 preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement from “arresting or detaining” a Boston University student whose visa and legal status were revoked.
The Trump administration revoked the visas of several international students at universities across Massachusetts this week, including Boston University, Tufts University, Harvard University, Emerson College, Berklee College of Music, Northeastern University and multiple campuses of the University of Massachusetts.
Boston University confirmed a number of student visas have been terminated, adding to the number of international students across Boston and nationwide whose visas were revoked.
Reports of a United States Department of Homeland Security officer on Boston University’s campus Thursday afternoon, which coincided with a planned student-led walkout calling for BU to designate itself as a sanctuary campus, intensified concerns over Immigration and Customs Enforcement on campus.
Three days after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, Kimberley Gilbert, an English immigrant who lives in Weymouth, began sending her eight-year-old daughter to school with her birth certificate.
Community leaders are preparing to preserve Boston’s immigrant and international student populations as the incoming Trump administration warns of a national immigration crackdown.
President-elect Donald Trump made many large-scale promises on policies concerning key voter issues both during his campaign and since his reelection — here’s how they shape up in Boston and Massachusetts.
Massachusetts district attorneys, public defenders and a community group filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prevent the agency from arresting and detaining immigrants at courthouses in the state.
Dozens of people participated in a noise demonstration to support the more than 70 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the jail who have been on a hunger strike since Feb. 15 to demand more humane living conditions.
Around 70 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the Suffolk County House of Correction have been on a hunger strike since Feb. 15 to call for an end to “abuse and inhumane conditions.”
A revised version of the Safe Communities Act has now received support from top Massachusetts law enforcement organizations, namely the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association and the Massachusetts Major City Chiefs of Police.
Approximately 90 people rallied in front of the John F. Kennedy Federal Building Saturday afternoon in support of Siham Byah, a Moroccan immigrant who was deported last month, along with other immigrants...
