Immigration

Confronting more than $1 billion in annual costs tied to Massachusetts’ emergency assistance family shelter system, the Healey administration rolled out a suite of new reforms Friday.

The attacks between the incoming Trump administration and Massachusetts officials over immigration policies, enforcement, and sanctuary cities continues to intensify. Massachusetts isn’t a sanctuary state, but it is the only right-to-shelter state, which is a draw for undocumented immigrants and a target for the incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan. “She’s not very smart,” Homan said of Boston Mayor Michelle...

The back-and-forth between the incoming Trump administration and local officials over immigration policies has continued to intensify.

Two experts explain the origins of birthright citizenship and what it would take to change it in the US.

Jose Antonio Ibarra was convicted on Wednesday in a case that became focal to the immigration debate ahead of the presidential election.

Elected officials in Massachusetts are reacting to President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants by declaring a national emergency and using military assets. Trump campaigned on a promise of the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, and he says he intends to deliver on it. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who declared a state of...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu are reacting to President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations.

City councilors in Somerville postponed a vote whether to remain a sanctuary city, as it has been since 1987.

The city council in Somerville, Massachusetts, held off on a vote to reconfirm its status as a sanctuary city on Thursday ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. Somerville has been a sanctuary city since 1987 and reconfirmed that status after Trump’s first election in 2016. The city council was supposed to vote Thursday night on whether to reconfirm that…

Leaders of sanctuary cities are wondering what a second Trump term will bring. Somerville, Massachusetts, was poised to sign a resolution reconfirming its status as a sanctuary city. Plus, NBC10 Boston political commentator Sue O’Connell shares her thoughts on what the Trump administration may mean for Republican governors’ policy of busing migrants to sanctuary cities. 

The plan would also include restarting the policy of detaining parents with their children, known as family detention, which immigration advocates have criticized.

President-elect Trump’s transition team is considering ending two Biden Administration programs that have allowed more than 1.3 million immigrants to enter the U.S. legally, making those who entered but have not yet received asylum eligible for deportation, NBC News has learned.

A federal judge has struck down a Biden administration policy that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Trump talked about his campaign promise to carry out the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. history.

Donald Trump has promised to stage the largest mass deportation in U.S. history if elected. The move would disrupt families with relatives living in the U.S. illegally.

One of the immigration proposals being discussed ahead of the upcoming presidential election could have an enormous impact on the Boston innovation and education ecosystem, say academic leaders and venture capitalists — and it’s coming from Donald Trump.

Stash’s Pizza owner Stavros “Steve” Papantoniadis of Westwood has been sentenced to federal prison after being convicted this summer on forced labor charges

Immigration has been a hotly debated issue between Republicans and Democrats running up to the 2024 election. Here’s what’s actually happening with immigration in America.

Immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children were among more than 200 demonstrators who gathered outside a federal courthouse in New Orleans where appellate judges heard arguments over a policy shielding them from deportation.

The Biden administration will not extend a two-year program that allows migrants from certain nations into the U.S. if they came by plane with sponsorship.