“I love Arthur T. I think he’s the best, I want to cook for him, I want to do anything I can to help him in his situation, and if he needs me for anything all he has to do, I’ll be here at Market Basket."
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Dama, a Nigerian immigrant and manager of the popular Roxbury eatery Suya Joint, was initially taken to the same Burlington ICE facility where other detainees have described awful conditions: bit.ly/44GCheP
In New England, poll numbers show pessimism. At the Carsie Blanton show in Cambridge last month, a "revolutionary optimism."
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“We, immigrants, are not criminals. We came here to work, to provide a better future for our family,” Daiane Pereira said. “Criminals don’t get up at 5 a.m. with a uniform to go work. To paint, to build houses, to clean bathrooms and wash floors.”
Around two dozen workers have been detained by federal agents, among them eleven workers from the local seafood processing plants that have been a site of recent worker organizing. jacobin.com/2025/04/migr...
