The sound of people knocking on Octavio and Nashaley Padilla’s door in fall 2012 interrupted an otherwise quiet evening. But when Nashaley opened the door, she got a sinking feeling that has only deepened with time. Police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents said they’d come looking for someone involved in an accident, Padilla said Wed…
DetailsWhen her husband was arrested crossing the border for the second time, Maria Ines Ayala said that was the end. He’d previously spent a year in immigration jail and if he got caught again he would face even stiffer penalties. So he left Ayala and three children in New Bedford and stayed in El Salvador, where he met another woman. That was in 2006….
DetailsBurlington, Massachusetts.- Esta fue semana de acción para grupos que buscan se detengan las deportaciones. Un grupo de manifestantes llegó hasta Burlington en las afueras de las oficinas de ICE para hacer sus reclamos….
DetailsWith the U.S. Senate poised to vote on an immigration bill late Thursday or Friday, New England supporters of undocumented workers staged a rally this afternoon at the regional Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office in Burlington. It’s part of a week of action calling on the Obama Administration to halt the detention and…
DetailsAt 3 p.m. this afternoon, patient demonstrators from Massachusetts, check New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut held a peaceful rally in front of the Burlington regional ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters, located at 10 New England Executive Park, off of Mall Road, that abuts the Burlington Mall. See video footage from demonstration. At the…
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