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n nearly indisputable likelihood, President Trump will leave office on Jan. 20. That could very well be six weeks too late for Eleazar Lopez Ayala. In the worst-case scenario, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will deport the 43-year-old father of four to his native Honduras nine days ...

By Maria Gabriella Pezzo and Roberto Daza Nov 1, 2018 Hundreds of people stood in line outside immigration courts in cities across the country on Halloween for what appeared to be a trick: the date on their notices said October 31, 2018, but the immigration courts did not know they were coming. O...

By: Kerry Kavanaugh BOSTON – People who came to the United States without documentation as children and have been here ever since are commonly referred to as “Dreamers,” based on never-passed proposals in Congress called the DREAM Act that would have provided similar protections for young immigra...

Reade Levinson, Kristina Cooke (Reuters) – Liliana Barrios was working in a California bakery in July and facing possible deportation when she got a call from her immigration attorney with some good news. FILE PHOTO: Liliana Barrios poses for a photo at her place of employment in Redwood City, C...

About 25 people gathered at Wheelock Park in Keene Sunday afternoon to celebrate the release of Eleazar Lopez Ayala, an undocumented Honduran immigrant living in Manchester who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the threat of deportation for nine months. Lopez Ayala ca...

BOSTON (CBS) – Almost everyone in this country admits that our current immigration system is broken. But whether our reforms should be based on compassion or pragmatism is another story. Tonight Dan is joined by two immigration attorneys, Marisa DeFranco and Jeff Rubin, and they will debate how t...

By Andrew R. Arthur on July 20, 2018 The Supreme Court issued a decision last month (Pereira v. Sessions) that could have potentially devastating consequences for removal proceedings, both presently pending and completed. At issue in that case was whether an alien who had been served a notice to ...

“On June 21, 2018, our firm won the Supreme Court decision in Pereira v. Sessions which will benefit many thousands of persons who are in removal/deportation proceedings, who have been ordered to leave the US or who have already been deported.” More articles regarding this case: 1. New Supreme Co...

A Brazilian native who arrived on Martha's Vineyard in 2000 on a tourist visa but never left is at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case that will clarify a clause in the federal immigration law concerning deportation. The nation's highest court agreed on Jan. 12 to consider a case involving We...

By Pat Murphy BridgeTower Media Newswires BOSTON, MA – The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to use the plight of a Martha's Vineyard man facing removal to his native Brazil to determine a key aspect of federal immigration law. Wescley Fonseca Pereira entered the United States in June 2000 as a no...

A federal judge in Boston on Monday invoked the Declaration of Independence in a formal order to release two Brazilian nationals who had entered the United States illegally. “This country was born with a declaration of universal human rights,” Judge Mark Wolf wrote to begin his 62-page opinion, “...

The administration says an executive amnesty for illegal immigrants already present in the U.S. is imminent. In fact, it may already be underway. Part of the plan the president is expected to issue would defer deportations for the illegal-immigrant parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent res...

By Arianna MacNeill Staff Writer Feb 8, 2018 Fabiano de Oliveira with his wife, Karah, and their son, on their wedding day in 2016. Fabiano, an undocumented immigrant living in Beverly, has been held by immigration officials since Jan. 9. Courtesy photo BEVERLY — Congressman Seth Moulton i...

The law enforcement agency is completely out of control. By Jacob Sugarman / AlterNet January 31, 2018, 10:20 AM GMT If there was a unifying theme of Donald Trump's disjointed, sporadically incoherent State of the Union, it was that law enforcement officials and military officers are America's mo...

Boston Magazine: The DREAM Act: The Thing Is, I'm Undocumented This is Oumou Troure. She's an all-American girl who grew up in Boston and loves the Celtics, playing the saxophone, and window-shopping on Newbury Street. She's also one of the 65,000 kids in the U.S. who graduate high school each ye...

Six months after Secure Communities was activated in Massachusetts, an exclusive FOX Undercover investigation finds that half of the immigrants identified and deported because of the controversial federal program weren't convicted of crimes but were targeted because of immigration problems. Attor...

Frightened, confused, and often held far from home, thousands of immigrants find themselves at the mercy of a legal system that, for many, amounts to an assembly line toward deportation LUMPKIN, Ga. — Wait beneath a canopy of razor wire for a security guard to buzz open the first towering gate. T...

“Attorney Todd Pomerleau fought to have the original plea reversed, and won.” Michelle Devlin said she was a drug addict when police found heroin in a house where she was staying in 2009. The “official” weight of the drugs, determined by the drug lab, were enough to bump a minor possession resea...

Crime Labs Still Unregulated despite Scandals She's testifying under oath apparently that she how to write a research proposal occupational therapy had a master's degree, and the Commonwealth couldn't even confirm whether she went to the school?” Pomerleau told National Public Radio (NPR). “I req...

EVERETT — Few were as excited about Election Day as Moises Herrera. He did not run for office. He cannot even vote. But reaching Tuesday's election, he hopes, will set in motion actions that will allow him to stay in the country. The minivan-driving father from El Salvador has no criminal record,...