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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,...