SARAH BETANCOURT, Author at BINJ

Margarita, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, and her citizen daughter. Photos courtesy of Centro Presente.

ICE Check-Ins Become Catch-22 For Immigrants

Go and be detained … or stay home and be detained

SARAH BETANCOURT June 17, 2025

DREAM FELLOWSHIP DEFERRED

Photo via US Department of Homeland Security / Mani Albrecht Diabetes researcher claims she was unlawfully denied entry to US A Canadian scholar hired for a prestigious diabetes research fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center says she was wrongfully denied entry to the US and

SARAH BETANCOURT May 25, 2022

PRISON HORRORS BY THE NUMBERS

Mass respondents shed light on COVID atrocities in new national survey

SARAH BETANCOURT January 16, 2021

LAWMAKERS AND ADVOCATES PUSH FOR MORE COVID-19 DATA FROM PRISONS

“It’s always helpful to have transparency in reporting data … Especially when we’re dealing with people’s health and safety, and when people are dying.”

SARAH BETANCOURT April 24, 2020

ICE GIVES ITS CORONAVIRUS GUIDELINES, ATTORNEYS SAY IT’S NOT ENOUGH

“We look forward to seeing as many immigrants as possible released from detention—not just those with no criminal charges or convictions, but all who pose no public-safety risk.”

SARAH BETANCOURT March 19, 2020

THE CASE FOR KATJA NOVIN

Novin was told she could return to the facility in a week. “I begged them not to send me home because I was afraid for my life,” she told DigBoston. “I was medically unstable,” Novin added, describing herself as suicidal, and saying she should have been sent to a hospital “at the very least.”

SARAH BETANCOURT October 30, 2018

WAITING FOR RECIPROCITY

Nurses, teachers, other Puerto Ricans in Mass struggle to get professional licenses When Hurricane Maria devastated her area of Isabela, Puerto Rico, 52-year-old Brenda Trujillo traveled to Holyoke in search of a more stable life and employment. Trujillo has been a nurse for nearly 30 years, but since arriving on

SARAH BETANCOURT January 17, 2018

ARTS WATCH: LESLEY UNIVERSITY

Prof Anthony Apesos teaching Art Institute of Boston (now LUCAD) MFA students in January 2011. Photo by Jason Pramas Alumni, students demand reinstatement of MFA program founder A group of more than 200 alumni and current graduate students have sent a petition to Lesley University’s administration, demanding the reinstatement of

SARAH BETANCOURT February 12, 2017

FLAME WAR

Council greenlights social media surveillance despite lack of BPD transparency With the dawn of a new kind of surveillance upon us, it’s critical to trace the advent of social media monitoring in Mass back to its roots. There is a demonstrable history of the Boston Police Department and other city

SARAH BETANCOURT December 19, 2016