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Worcester, Massachusetts, community leaders demand transparency after chaos unfolded during ICE arrest

Rhondella Richardson, Jennifer Peñate Updated: 11:25 AM EDT May 11, 2025 Worcester residents are demanding transparency from the city on Friday, after chaos unfolded Thursday morning when federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a Brazilian woman, sparking a protest from a large crowd who attempted to block the agents’ car from leaving, resulting in…
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As fears persist over students’ visas, Mass. colleges try to offer legal and academic support

By Anna Rubenstein May 02, 2025 Colleges and universities across Massachusetts moved swiftly to change policies and offer new services to international students affected by the Trump administration’s whiplash actions against their visas. From free legal advice to remote study options and emergency financial aid, several schools recently crafted what some educators and lawyers described as “contingency…
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Trump administration says Harvard will receive no new grants until it meets White House demands

By Collin Binkley and Jocelyn Gecker Updated May 06, 2025 Harvard University will receive no new federal grants until it meets a series of demands from President Trump’s administration, the Education Department announced Monday. The action was laid out in a letter to Harvard’s president and amounts to a major escalation of Trump’s battle with the Ivy League school.…
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Advocates in Brookline push to save school district’s Office of Educational Equity

Chinanu Okoli May 06, 2025 Advocates have raised over $188,000 in an attempt to save Brookline’s Office of Educational Equity for next school year. But whether money will be taken in by the  town’s school committee is still up in the air. The school committee will vote May 15 on whether to accept one-time funds…
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Days of apparent new ICE operations sow fear in Mass. communities

Wednesday was the fourth consecutive day that federal agents have been seen making arrests, visiting at least Framingham, Everett, Lynn, Waltham and Lawrence. By Jennifer Sanguano • Published May 7, 2025 • Updated on May 7, 2025 at 10:12 pm Federal immigration agents have apparently returned in force to Massachusetts, sowing fear among the community with new operations in different cities across the…
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Boston nonprofit Hack.Diversity to shut down

Eli Chavez May 8, 2025 After almost 10 years of working to diversify the Boston tech startup workforce, Hack.Diversity plans to shut down this summer. The nonprofit dedicated to boosting diversity in tech startups said its current cohort would continue as planned, but that it would not be enrolling any additional cohorts afterward and will…
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Local groups report major spike in ICE detentions around Massachusetts

Sarah Betancourt May 08, 2025 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining and arresting people in the Boston area in far greater numbers this past week, local watchdogs and community groups tell GBH News. ICE detentions ranging from Worcester, Framingham, Waltham, Boston and beyond were captured on video and on social media and reported by…
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Woman who says she was accused of being a man in Boston hotel bathroom files complaint with AG’s office

Ansley Baker said she was forced from the women’s restroom when a security guard banged on the stall door and asked for her ID. By Molly Farrar May 8, 2025 The woman who says a security guard at a Boston hotel accosted her in the women’s bathroom and accused her of being a man filed a complaint with…
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Mass. has strong climate laws. A new Trump action aims to undo them

By Miriam Wasser April 11, 2025 As President Trump has worked to dismantle many federal climate policies and initiatives, Massachusetts environmentalists have taken solace in the fact that states and municipalities have the power to set their own energy and environmental policies. But this week, that premise was called into question. On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive…
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Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk freed from immigration detention

Adrian Florido Updated May 9, 2025 8:53 PM ET  Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student and Turkish national, was released from federal custody on Friday, hours after a judge in Vermont ordered the Trump administration to free her. Accompanied by her lawyer, Öztürk walked out of the immigration detention center in rural Louisiana where…
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