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The New York Times reports how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement inadvertently helped spread Covid-19 across the globe by holding immigrants in detention centers that became hotbeds for the virus before deportation.

After Dr. Parth Mehta moved into his basement in early March, he wrote goodbye letters and put together an emergency binder with important information for his family.

The administration is seeking a sweeping ruling that it could potentially use to deport millions of people, even those arrested far from the border and who have been in the country for years, experts on the issue said.

A Northeastern student from Iran was deported Monday after being denied entry into the United States and held at Boston Logan International Airport, sparking protests and prompting to school to fight on his behalf. Lawyers for Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein Abadi, 24, are working working with the schools attorneys to keep bring him back to the country after he was…

A Northeastern University student from Iran was denied entry into the U.S. because of alleged familial ties to a terror group.

The Northeastern University student facing deportation is due in court.

Protesters gathered at Boston Logan International Airport Monday evening in support of an Iranian student studying at Northeastern University who the school said was denied entry into the United States when he arrived earlier in the day. Officials at the Boston university said in a statement Monday night that they are aware the student was denied entry into the country,…

A Cambodian man detained by immigration officials since March was expected to be temporarily released before his scheduled deportation after a federal court judge in Boston criticized how the case has been handled. In the Christmas Eve ruling, Judge Mark Wolf took issue with how Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials didn’t interview Seoun Kim while he was in custody,...

Massachusetts immigrant rights activists are challenging the Trump administration’s expansion of deportation powers. The Boston-based Lawyers for Civil Rights said Monday it has filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., on behalf of Massachusetts immigrant advocacy groups Centro Presente and the Pioneer Valley Workers Center.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is urging lawmakers to revisit legislation that would let state and municipal law enforcement officers hold “violent and dangerous criminals” who face deportation, if a valid federal detainer request has been issued. Baker filed the bill in 2017 after a ruling by the state’s highest court that Massachusetts law does not allow police to hold individuals...

A high school student from Greenwich, Connecticut has designed an online resource to help immigrant children and teenagers learn how to prepare for the possible deportations of parents or guardians.

Local politicians, advocates and family members of a man detained by ICE last week after delivering pizza to a military base in New York gathered Wednesday to support the Ecuadorian father.

Leslie Silvia wanted her father to see her before she graduated from high school.

The case against a man arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at his home earlier this week could be thrown out if the arrest is found unreasonable by a judge, according to his attorney.

Immigrant advocates are outraged by a U.S. government decision to put on hold a program that helps tens of thousands of immigrants navigate the country’s complex immigration court system. The $8 million-a-year program that provides legal orientation to immigrants in deportation proceedings is on hold pending review, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, which oversees immigration courts.

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday pardoned five ex-convicts facing deportation, including two whose families fled the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia four decades ago.

The Trump administration’s immigration policies are causing “high levels of psychological distress” in many Latino parents, who are passing that anxiety along to their kids, a new study finds, NBC News reported. A team at George Washington University found that a majority of Latino parents surveyed are afraid that they or their relatives will be deported, and many families reported...

There is a disturbing trend happening right now – some victims do not report crimes committed against them due to their immigration status.

The number of people arrested by immigration agents in the early months of the Trump administration increased dramatically and is up nearly 40 percent compared to last year. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says agents arrested 41,300 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally during a 100-day period from Jan. 22 to April 29. The agency said Wednesday that...