Despite a court order, Customs and Border Protection had a Providence doctor with an H1-B visa detained as she arrived at Logan from a visit with her parents in Lebanon and immediately sent back there.
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By adamg - Sat, 03/15/2025 - 7:39pm
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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 - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 10:26pm
Both Boston and Cambridge firefighters responded to the banks of the Charles River around 4:45 p.m. on reports of people walking on the river, roughly in the area of Fairfield Street in the Back Bay. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 9:36am
The Neponset River Greenway Council reports the same flooding that forced a water rescue on the Mattapan Line also covered the riverside trail "near the Baker Dam and under the Adams Street Bridge" and of course all that water froze and now the council is recommending you avoid the trail or "travel with caution" until the ice melts.
By adamg - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 10:30am
The Massachusetts Council of Churches and 26 other religious groups, including the Boston-based Unitarian Universalist Association, this morning sued Homeland Security and ICE over their announced intentions to have agents storm religious sanctuaries in their efforts to find brown people to deport. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 02/08/2025 - 11:28am
WBZ reports on restaurants in East Boston, which has a large immigrant community.
By adamg - Fri, 02/07/2025 - 2:42pm
The University of Massachusetts legal office today notified workers at all of its campuses today on what to do if somebody from ICE - or any other government agency - shows up and starts asking questions about students or other employees: Tell them nothing and send them to the UMass Office of the General Counsel (OGC) or, if they have a warrant, to the campus police. 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 - Thu, 01/23/2025 - 2:20pm
WCVB reports on arrests last night, including outside the Chelsea Market Basket.
By adamg - Thu, 12/26/2024 - 2:32pm
Across Boston, disgusted residents are filing 311 complaints about sidewalks that are still unwalkable nearly a week after the snowstorm, such as this one about the conditions on Neptune Road in East Boston.
By adamg - Mon, 01/22/2024 - 12:55pm
A gagging citizen files a 311 complaint about the amount of salt Boston Public Works has put down over the past week: Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 02/05/2023 - 4:50pm
It'll take more than one day to melt all the ice that formed in our brief sub-zero blast. Along the Charles River in Millennium Park in West Roxbury, a one-time homage to leather from Mechanics Hall (bulldozed to make way for the Pru) remained encased in ice around 3:30 p.m. today.
The ice also snared some tree branches: Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 03/01/2022 - 12:49pm
A federal appeals court today declined to toss criminal charges against Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph and her courtroom deputy Wesley MacGregor that stem from the way they helped a defendant wanted as part of a Trump-era ICE crackdown on immigrants slip out the back door of their courthouse while ICE agents waited in the lobby. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 12/25/2021 - 12:34pm
JJFree shows off her husband's form on some ice-covered steps in Needham this morning: Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 02/21/2021 - 9:31pm
Lucas Brunelle is part of a small (very small) fraternity of people who try to bike on the Charles River in the winter. Yesterday, he got out on the ice in Brighton and pretty promptly fell through thin ice and into the water.
Today, more people joined him on the river, but on two feet and further downstream by the Esplanade. Thanks to the folks who sent us photos and comments, if for no other reason than we now know there are two divergent schools of thought about people who go out on the Charles on days like today: Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 02/06/2021 - 12:33pm
Boston Police report that when officers pulled over a driver on Harvard Street in Dorchester for a traffic stop early this morning, one passenger got out and ran away - only to slip on ice outside Sun Pizza on Blue Hill Avenue, which let them catch up and arrest him for the gun they say he tossed during his failed escape. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 09/01/2020 - 9:20pm
A federal appeals court today dismissed a preliminary injunction that had barred ICE agents from arresting immigrants appearing in Massachusetts court cases during a suit against the practice by district attorneys in Suffolk and Middlesex counties and several civil-rights groups. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 07/14/2020 - 3:54pm
Government lawyers agreed today to drop an ICE policy that would have forced foreign students to leave the country if they were unwilling or unable to find a school that would teach their classes in person. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 07/08/2020 - 10:13am
MIT and Harvard today asked a federal judge to block a new ICE ruling that would force foreign students already enrolled in college here to either find schools that would teach them in person or leave the country. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 11/21/2019 - 9:17am
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