ICE: Mass. SJC Decision 'Weakens' Law Enforcement
A U.S. immigration official says Massachusetts' highest court put communities at risk when it ruled that police do not have the authority to detain people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.
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A U.S. immigration official says Massachusetts' highest court put communities at risk when it ruled that police do not have the authority to detain people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.
The State Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday that state and local authorities don't have to cooperate when federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities ask them to hold someone until they can arrive with a detainer.
Dozens of supporters rallied outside the State House Thursday to call for the release of MIT janitor Francisco Rodriguez.
Boston's Mayor Marty Walsh hosted an "Immigrant Summit" Thursday.
Fresh off the plane at Logan Airport are passengers returning from abroad Thursday. The most common reaction from Logan passengers: "Here we go again."
Immigrants and advocacy groups plan to press their case to make Massachusetts a so-called sanctuary state.
Lawyers in Massachusetts are seeking the release of a man they say is being unlawfully detained by federal immigration officials while they try to find a country to deport him to.
A civil rights group has sued a Massachusetts sheriff who joined a federal immigration enforcement program and offered to send inmates to help build President Donald Trump's proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Immigrants and activists are marking International Workers' Day with marches and rallies in the Boston area.
Indranis Rocheford and Alba Pena, both of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, were each sentenced last week to more than two years behind bars. The sisters were convicted of wire fraud charges in February.
The "Here to Stay" rallies in Boston, Chelsea and Everett on Monday are also meant to be a call for Massachusetts lawmakers to approve the Safe Communities Act.
A Massachusetts law enforcement official testifying before Congress on Tuesday called for leaders of sanctuary cities to be arrested.
On this edition of Centro, Yadires Nova-Salcedo talks with the President of Alianza Centroamericana Alfonso Hernandez.
There has been a recent push to make Melrose a sanctuary city, where police would be barred from arresting or holding people strictly because of their immigration status.
A teacher has been harshly criticized for sending an email to staff at his school saying he was refusing to teach immigrant students in the U.S. illegally.
Legal challenges against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban mounted Thursday as Washington state said it would renew its request to block the executive order and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced she would be joining the effort.
Dr. Omid Moghimi from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire married his wife, Dorsa, in Iran last year--but she couldn't get into the country until today.
The new enforcement documents are the latest efforts by President Donald Trump to follow through on campaign promises to strictly enforce immigration laws.
The Trump administration considered a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press.
A national protest held across the country, including right here in Boston, urged immigrants to skip school and work Thursday.
Hundreds of immigrants work in passenger services at Logan Airport, and many fear what the future in the country entails.
Immigration law expert Marisa DeFranco says she has issues with both President Donald Trump's administration and local Democratic leaders when it comes to the rollout of Trump's travel ban.
WBZ's Yadires Nova-Salcedo talks with Liza Ryan, Organizing Director for the non-profit, non-partisan organization MIRA on the English version of Centro and with MIRA Community Organizer Joel Rivera on the Spanish version.
The parents of a badly-burned 2-year-old Iraqi refugee who is waiting to undergo surgery in Boston have finally been granted permission to join their son.
Two-year-old Dilbreen's urgently-needed surgery at Boston's Shriners Hospital for Children has been canceled for now because of President Donald Trump's executive order banning immigrant travel from seven countries for 90 days.
