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.

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt now has a family connection to an ICE arrest: the mother of her nephew was detained in Revere, Mass. @wbur.org @simonfrios.bsky.social
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We looked into that. There doesn’t appear to be anything pending.

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.

We’ve got a profile on Quincy Mayor Koch. He’s had a lot of controversies this year and while he’s not on the ballot tomorrow, most of the city Council is - excellent radio piece on this morning from @simonfrios.bsky.social @wbur.org
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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."

The state confirms that ICE agents were on the property of the Mass. National Guard armory in Framingham this week - without state permission @wbur.org @simonfrios.bsky.social
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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...

Behind the scenes, DA’s office knew ICE could upend their case: ‘Agent Sullivan stated, essentially out of the blue, that he intended to take the defendant into custody, but he did not specify when that would be.’ Judge wasn’t happy @wbur.org @simonfrios.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

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...

A tangle of prosecutors: A Boston judge held an ICE agent in contempt for grabbing a guy at court. DA Hayden mulls charges against the agent -- but the U.S. Attorney told him to stand down. Even Mass AG Campbell says DA can't charge ICE @wbur.org @simonfrios.bsky.social
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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...

ICE gave details on just 14 of the 370 people they picked up in the Boston area, tho claimed they were dangerous ‘criminals’ www.wbur.org/news/2025/03... #mapoli @wbur.org @simonfrios.bsky.social

'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...

Youre gonna want to hear this. @dropkickmurphys.com on Trump. @wbur.org @simonfrios.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...

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...

@mayorwu.boston.gov prepares for hostile grilling by GOP-led committee in Congress today, on immigration enforcement @wbur.org @simonfrios.bsky.social
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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.

The Trump administration is looking to start an immigrant registry - the U.S. has had them before - targeting Japanese people in WWII, Muslims after 9/11, and now the latest waves of migrants @wbur.org @simonfrios.bsky.social #mapoli
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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.

My conversation with Alberto Vasallo of El Mundo Boston (read or listen!) about how he’s working to sort fact from misinformation/disinformation when it comes to immigration crackdowns locally:

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