Authorities say a 27-year-old Honduran man died by apparent suicide at one of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s family detention centers

A 22-year-old Guatemalan woman in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement died in a Texas hospital, the agency said Monday.

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Federal immigration officials in Massachusetts say a newly launched campaign to alert the public of immigrants living in the country illegally who have been released by local officials under “sanctuary” policies is having an impact. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Boston office said late Wednesday it arrested two men — one from Cape Verde and another from Colombia — who…

The mother of a 5-year-old Guatemalan boy sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the medical care he has received in detention for a head injury suffered before the family was arrested. The lawsuit filed late Friday in California asks a judge to order the child to be taken to a pediatric neurologist or pediatric neurosurgeon. It also seeks...

Wintry weather caused many schools and state offices in Maine to close Friday due to snow, ice and slush. Speed limits were reduced on the Maine Turnpike and several crashes were reported, according to state police. A Quincy, Massachusetts, man was seriously injured on the turnpike just before 1 p.m. when, state police said, his car skidded into the path…

Large crowds gathered at the state house on Friday arguing for and against the Safe Communities Act which would allow Massachusetts to become a sanctuary state.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is warning international students that federal immigration officials may visit their worksites to verify that their employment is directly related to their studies. School officials sent a memo to faculty on Thursday saying the Department of Homeland Security has been making site visits to employers of foreign students in science, technology, engineering and math fields….

Special Agent Wesley Petonak, 34, was sitting at his desk in November 2018 when he came across a PowerPoint presentation file that alarmed him. A nine-year veteran at San Diego’s Homeland Security Investigations office, Petonak knew firsthand the importance of intelligence gathering for successful immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border.  But the PowerPoint was different.  Nine of the slides...

The civil rights lawyers behind a lawsuit filed against Boston Public Schools claiming that immigration agents can access student information are calling on the district to shut down that communication. Boston Public Schools denies the allegations, but the attorneys behind the lawsuit say the school district is putting students in jeopardy. It’s all focused on what’s called a student...

Boston Public Schools denies they’re sharing any student information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement but the attorneys suing them say that’s not true and it’s already led to the deportation of one student.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested fewer people during the 2019 budget year than last year, in part because resources were shifted to help handle the massive surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, the agency said Wednesday. And the average number of immigrants in detention was 50,165 — even though Congress limits funding to cover just 45,000. “There is…

Tuesday’s wintry mess hasn’t been a textbook evolution in New England: rather than a slug of organized snow and mix, we’ve instead seen bursts of snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain akin to summertime showers and thunderstorms, cropping up quickly, remaining localized and exiting just as quickly.  The result has been a tremendous difference between communities, from snow-covered winter...

Immigration officials defended the agency’s policy to make arrests at state courthouses in a motion to dismiss a federal lawsuit. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked a federal judge on Friday to toss a lawsuit by Massachusetts prosecutors that argued the practice of courthouse arrests is making it harder for them to hold defendants accountable and get justice for victims....

Boston lawmakers imposed new limits on police in immigration matters Wednesday in response to revelations the department has been closely coordinating with federal authorities for years despite a sanctuary city policy. The City Council approved changes to the city’s 5-year-old Trust Act, which limits the role city officials play in enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. Democratic Mayor Marty Walsh...

Road crews are treating roads Wednesday morning amid a slippery morning commute.

A man who tweeted that he would give $500 to anyone who would kill a federal immigration officer was acquitted in a case that centered on whether a threatening social media post is protected speech. A federal jury at U.S. District Court in Boston cleared 35-year-old Brandon Ziobrowski, of New York City. He had faced up to five years in…

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A Yale student is fighting his sick mother’s possible deportation to Honduras, where he says she won’t get proper medical treatment