Marcelo Gomes da Silva, the Milford teen detained by ICE last year, had high hopes for his visit to Washington, D.C., but was reportedly escorted out of the Capitol chamber after the Department of Homeland Security posted on social media targeting him.

While some in area have taken refuge at overnight shelters, others are clamoring for the few hotel rooms in a region that famously shuts its doors in the offseason.

Democratic Gov. Maura Healey is calling on her counterpart in New Hampshire to “do everything in her power” to stop ICE from building out a new detention facility north of the Massachusetts border.

But even for those who are released, the path toward permanent legal status is filled with hurdles.

State and city officials made the long-awaited announcement Tuesday on where World Cup fans without tickets can gather in Boston to watch the matches: City Hall Plaza.

The wife of Seamus Culleton, a 38-year-old Irish man who has lived in the Boston area for nearly 20 years, is urging federal immigration officials to release her husband after ICE agents arrested him in September.

Though the Trump administration claims Massachusetts is a “sanctuary state,” some local police cooperate with ICE routinely. The relationships vary town by town, and departments largely decide for themselves whether to volunteer information to ICE — or even hand people over.

The federal immigration authorities that detained a Ugandan pastor outside his workplace Wednesday are now denying him the medication needed to treat his Type 2 diabetes, according to his lawyer.

At apparel manufacturer American Roots in Westbrook, Maine, staff and community volunteers are trying to protect immigrant workers by standing watch as they arrive and leave for the day.

Lawyers, elected officials, and some local law enforcement officers say many of those detained have no criminal record.