White House spokeswoman Leavitt now has a family connection to an ICE arrest

Bruna Ferreira, a Boston-area woman who is the mother of Leavitt's nephew, is now in custody at an ICE facility in Louisiana.

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Quincy's Mayor Koch, in 7th term, looks to quell controversies before council election

The seven-term mayor enjoys largely unchecked power, with a city council that rarely pushes back on his agenda. But nearly every council seat is being challenged on election day.

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ICE agents at Mass. National Guard armory in Framingham without state permission

A spokesperson for the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, which oversees the guard, said agents arrived on the property "without prior notice and without permission."

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Suffolk prosecutors knew ICE would arrest Saugus man on trial, but kept quiet, court recordings show

Details in court recordings and documents raise questions about federal interference in local cases, and what prosecutors and state police knew about the arrest outside Boston Municipal Court before i...

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A showdown of prosecutors looms as DA mulls charges against ICE agent

The District Attorney could decide ICE crossed an ethical line but not a criminal one in arresting a man just as his case was set to go to trial in Boston. Some legal observers said that should be det...

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Flurry of ICE raids follow border czar's threats of 'bringing hell' to Boston

U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan’s threats of "bringing hell" to Boston seemed to materialize over the last week. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Monday that officers had car...

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'This is a class war': The Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey on Trump, immigration and Boston

"The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America...

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Wu prepares to face hostile GOP grilling in Congress over immigration policy

Republicans leading the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee say they’re holding the mayors of Boston, New York, Chicago and Denver “publicly accountable” for the way they handle immigratio...

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Immigrant registry alarms those without legal status

The United States has enforced such registries before — targeting Japanese immigrants during World War II and Muslims after September 11.

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El Mundo Boston CEO takes Facebook show to streets to report on local ICE enforcement

Alberto Vasallo, CEO and journalist at El Mundo Boston, has spent the last week working to sort out fact from fiction when it comes to local crackdowns by federal immigration agents.

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