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2025 News
Brad Lander Is Arrested by ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse
6/17/2025‘It’s worse than COVID.’ ICE raids empty LA produce markets and restaurants.
6/17/2025A Milford teen spent six days in ICE detention without sunlight or a shower. Life back at home isn’t what he expected.
6/11/2025The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense
6/10/2025ICE mandate to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day fuels raids in Massachusetts communities
6/10/2025Labor Leader Arrested During Immigration Protest Is Released on Bond
6/9/2025This is what an ICE arrest in Boston immigration court looks like
6/9/2025ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means?
6/7/2025Letters from an American Heather Cox Richardson (scroll to Kilmar Abrego Garcia)
6/6/2025Why Immigration Raids in Puerto Rico Hit Differently
6/6/2025From inside detention facility, Vineyard Brazilian immigrant shares story of his arrest
6/5/2025Somerville High School Show Up
6/4/2025ICE Now Expanding into Local Law Enforcement As Spearhead of Trump Repression.
6/4/2025 Crowd of neighbors confront ICE agents who raided a local restaurant
6/4/2025The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag
6/1/2025Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration, for Now, to End Biden-Era Migrant Program
5/30/2025Island faith leaders decry ICE detentions
5/29/2025Photos, video from ICE raid
5/29/2025The U.S. Is Trying to Legalize the Indefinite Detention of Migrant Children
5/28/2025Federal Officers Arrest 40 on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
5/27/2025Trump administration looks to end protections for migrant children in U.S. custody
5/22/2025They crossed the border for better schools. Now, some families are leaving the US
5/21/2025What you - yes, you - should know about interacting with ICE
5/19/2025TRUMP IS BUILDING A GLOBAL GULAG FOR IMMIGRANTS CAPTURED BY ICE The U.S. is in talks with 19 nations, including Libya, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Moldova, to accept deportees from other countries.
5/15/2025An agency tasked with protecting immigrant children is becoming an enforcement arm, current and former staffers say
5/14/202512-year-old boy left alone on sidewalk after ICE raid in Massachusetts
5/13/2025Pro-Trump Green Card Holder Was Arrested by ICE After Over 30 Years in US
5/9/202516-Year-Old Violently Arrested for Trying to Stop Mother's ICE 'Kidnapping' in Massachusetts
5/9/2025ICE Just Deported Two More US Citizen Children
5/9/2025Trump administration plans to deport migrants to Libya and other countries
5/8/2025Trump Taps Refugee Fund To Welcome White South Africans Within Days
5/6/2025U.S. offers to pay immigrants $1,000 stipend to leave, says it’ll save money
5/5/20253 children who are US citizens — including one with cancer — deported with their mothers, lawyers and advocacy groups say
4/27/2025An Overview of U.S. Refugee Law and Policy
4/24/2025Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime
4/19/2025The Emergency Is Here
4/17/2025Ice deports Venezuelan teen despite reportedly knowing he was not a target
4/15/2025Lawyer: Federal agents detain Guatemalan man, 29, with no criminalrecord
4/14/2025Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.
4/14/2025'Outrageous Abuse of Power': Trump Weaponizes Social Security for Deportation Spree
4/11/2025U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
4/10/2025What Rights Do Immigrants Have?
4/9/2025IRS acting commissioner is resigning over deal to send immigrants’ tax data to ICE, AP sources say
4/8/2025How does deportation work, and how much does it cost? We break it down
4/7/2025Green card holders, travelers caught in Trump's immigration crackdown
4/1/2025Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts
3/26/2025Half a trillion vanished? IRS bombshell as agency warns DOGE may have cost U.S. a shocking $500 billion; here's the full detail
3/25/2025U.S. to revoke legal status of more than a half-million migrants, urges them to self deport
3/23/2025Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at US Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak durinHomeland Security revokes temporary status for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans
3/21/2025As Trump Broadens Crackdown, Focus Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists
3/21/2025Jeanette Vizguerra, an undocumented mom once named to Time’s 100 Most Influential list, has been detained by ICE in Colorado
3/19/2025Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order
3/16/2025With Deportations, Trump Steps Closer to Showdown With Judicial Branch
3/16/2025First-Person, Secondhand: Nine Books on Migration That Experiment with Point of View
3/14/2025Know Your Rights: Here's How to Defend Immigrants Against the Most Common ICE Tactics and Unconstitutional Actions
3/6/2025Wu defends Boston's record on crime, Trust Act as congressional Republicans grill mayors over immigration
3/5/2025German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego-area immigrant detention facility
2/28/2025In an Age of Right-Wing Populism, Why Are Denmark’s Liberals Winning?
2/24/2025The Deportation Machine
2/24/2025For Fearful Immigrants, It’s the Card They All Want Right Now
2/23/2025A Long History of Migrant Detention at Guantánamo: A Q&A with Jenna Loyd
2/21/2025Omar takes heavy flak for teaching immigrant rights
2/14/2025Groups Sue Trump Administration for Access to Immigrants Sent from U.S. to Guantánamo Bay
2/12/2025Campuses No Longer Off-Limits to ICE
2/5/2025When ICE Comes Calling, Rapid Community Responses Can Make a Difference
2/3/2025Letters from an American Heather Cox Richardson – Colombia/Immigration
1/27/2025Rep. Ilhan Omar Reintroduces the Neighbors Not Enemies Act to Repeal Alien Enemies Act
1/24/2025 Immigration Crossroads: Five Historical Lessons for Illuminating Today's Policy Debates
1/23/2025Mass Deportation Is Coming Under Trump — But Immigration Activists Are Mobilizing to Stop It
1/23/2025Center Stage: Immigration
1/22/2025Trump Administration Updates: Federal Workers Told to Inform on Colleagues Trying to Dodge D.E.I. Crackdown
1/22/2025A Murky Setback for DACA
1/22/2025ICE Watch Programs Can Protect Immigrants in Your Neighborhood — Here’s What to Know
1/22/2025Ahead of Day 1, Trump’s Team Works to Temper Expectations on Immigration
1/19/2025The migrants missing in Mexico, and the mothers who won’t stop searching for them
1/15/2025What if ICE Agents Show Up? Schools Prepare Teachers and Parents.
1/7/2025Attribution
The resource list was compiled by Lynn Ditchfield with contributions from:
- Anita Botti
- Cheri Cluff
- Michael Ditchfield**
- Victoria Dryfoos
- Camila Fernandez
- Justen Foster
- Shari Geistfeld**
- Linda Graham
- Marissa A. Gutierrez-Vicario
- Julie Huff**
- Naomi Ostwald Kawamura
- Jenik Munafo Khelalfa
- Roslyn Sue Le Mesurier
- Kendra Mills
- Vivian Maria Poey
- Nadia Sahila
- Jane Sampaio
- Guy Michel Telemanque
- Rachel Toon
- Others
* - especially informative content
** - special thanks
Funds to help support granted in part by:
- Mass Cultural Council (MVLCC)
- Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship