Immigration

The Justice Department moved to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams on Friday, one day after Adams agreed to provide ICE access to Rikers Island jail.

The Department of Justice fired multiple immigration judges on Friday, according to two sources familiar with the decision and a statement from one of the judges on LinkedIn.

Sikh community members said they have already seen how anxieties around immigration have impeded the way in which some, including naturalized citizens, practice their faith.

Election integrity has become a divisive political issue. A Republican-backed bill seeks to “safeguard” elections though voting rights advocates say the effort is an unnecessary burden that will suppress voters.

Jose Fernando-Perez, 49, a Guatemalan citizen, was arrested Feb. 2 and charged with three counts of forcible rape of a child and three counts of aggravated rape of a child, ICE said in a written statement

A new analysis says Massachusetts’ population growth is due to an increase in humanitarian migrants whose numbers are being more accurately captured by the U.S. Census.

With the president already ending various legal immigration programs and the fate of DACA remaining uncertain, Dreamers fear for their protections.

Hundreds of immigrant families in Massachusetts are coming up with backup plans in case they get deported and separated from their loved ones. The worry has led to a rush at immigrant assistance centers, which are being inundated with paperwork and requests. The Brazilian-American Center, or BRACE, is one such center in Framingham. “We’re trying the best we can,...

With fears rising among immigrant communities in Massachusetts, many families are taking preemptive action in case they get separated from their loved ones.

Pope Francis criticized President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy in a letter to U.S. bishops Monday and pleaded with Catholics not to give into “narratives that discriminate.”

A judge in New Hampshire handed another victory for those trying to stop President Donald Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship for the children born in the U.S. of undocumented immigrants. ...

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Senators are eyeing the weather as they prepare for potential back-to-back formal session days later this week, taking up rules for the new two-year legislative term and tackling a policy-packed emergency shelter budget bill Wednesday and possibly into Thursday. The House on Thursday passed a $425 million bill to fund the emergency assistance (EA) family shelter program through June. The…

A federal judge in New Hampshire has issued an immediate injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is getting ready to ask private prison companies to bid for contracts to re-open family detention facilities.

An Ohio city that was inundated with threats last year related to an influx of Haitian immigrants has sued a neo-Nazi group that it alleges was at the heart of the onslaught.

President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship for undocumented parents went before a federal judge in Boston Friday morning. Both opponents, like Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, and supporters of Trump’s executive order suspect it will end up before the Supreme Court....

And NBC10 Boston political commentator Sue O’Connell explains why Massachusetts’ federal courts are emerging as a preferred venue for...

Arrests and deportations of undocumented people are lower than what Donald Trump has promised, and that is “driving him nuts,” one source told NBC News.

The attorneys general argue that the principle of birthright citizenship is “enshrined in the Constitution” and that Trump does not have the authority to issue the order, which they called a “flagrantly unlawful attempt to strip hundreds of thousands of American-born children of their citizenship based on their parentage.”...

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Eighteen attorneys general in all are involved in this lawsuit brought in federal court in Boston.

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A federal judge in Boston said on Friday he would take under advisement a request from 18 state attorneys general to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally.