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A crowd of more than 40 protesters demonstrated in front of Gov. Maura Healey’s Arlington home Monday morning at 5 a.m., calling on her to end a Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) cooperation agreement with ICE.
Immigrant neighborhoods in Massachusetts are feeling the strain of recent ICE actions, which have intensified in recent months. The Globe spent seven days in local communities to tell their stories.
“People are terrified for their lives and for their neighbors,” Wu said during a talk at the WBUR Festival. “Folks [are] getting snatched off the street by secret police who are wearing masks, who can offer no justification for why certain people are being taken and then detained.”
A new bill aims to ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from covering their faces in Massachusetts.
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ICE Boston says the feds will try to deport the illegal immigrant accused of raping a woman at knifepoint and then threatening to report her to ICE if she contacted police. Chelsea man Alfredo Romero-Argentina, aka Alfredo Romero-Cortez, 48, was recently arrested after allegedly assaulting and raping a 35-year-old woman on July 4.