Immigration

14 permanent residents argue the government has ignored its own rules in deciding citizenship entirely based on their country of origin.

Public records uncover web of communication and some non-required information sharing.

SangYeob Kim is the director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project at ACLU-NH. He’ll be in the Supreme Court this week as this case is argued.

Democrats passed a resolution last week seeking to allow the jail to only hold ICE detainees facing criminal charges, and barring ICE from holding detainees facing only civil violations.

A new directive earlier this month allows for many refugees to be detained without a warrant.

What did the first immigration laws in the U.S. look like? How were immigration restrictions determined?

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.

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.

During a senate hearing Thursday, acting ICE director Todd Lyons said federal officials spoke with the governor about the facility's economic impact. Gov. Kelly Ayotte said his comments were not true.