To open our gates to striving would-be Americans is to turbocharge the economy and enrich the American way of life.

East Boston is a bundle of blue, Chinatown is thick with green, and purple decorates the western part of Dorchester in this fascinating, color-filled map of immigrant populations in Boston and ...

Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu is taking heat from local leaders after repeating her stance on Beantown’s sanctuary city status this week, when she claimed "we stand with immigrants." ...

A federal bench trial is set to begin over a lawsuit that challenges Trump administration efforts of arresting and deporting ...

Many Irish immigrants barely had the means to make the trip, and had no money to move on once they landed in Boston. By 1850, 35,000 of Boston's 136,000 residents — 26 percent — were Irish ...

Trump's massive spending packing is adding tens of billions for immigration enforcement and deportations. But immigration ...

Boston authorities confirmed they rejected all 15 immigration detainer requests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the city last year, according to a new report. Boston Police ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents arrested around 370 illegal immigrants in Boston and wider Massachusetts between March 18 and 23, 2025.

ICE agents in plainclothes with handcuffs peeking out of their back pockets had waited outside the courtroom on the third floor of the John F. Kennedy Federal Building while the woman, Kary Diaz ...

Local News Immigrants in ICE custody face rapid transfers, limited legal help Transferring people in ICE custody is common, advocates say, and legal representation isn't guaranteed to detainees.

Boston's immigration courts are held inside the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in downtown Boston. Deportation processes, or a judge’s decision of whether a person is going to be removed from ...