immigration Archives

Homeland Security Searches Lesley University Dormitory

Federal search of Cambridge building ignites debate over police cooperation and transparency

MILA HALGREN January 15, 2026

Boston University. Photo by Daderot, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Modified by BINJ Staff using the paid BINJ Canva account and downloaded on November 13, 2025.

Appalled By The “BU Snitch?” Organize!

If you live in the Boston area, you’ve probably heard today’s news that a Boston University student bragged on social media that he had essentially gotten ICE to raid a local car wash. The human toll was predictable. Nine people’s lives, and the lives of their families, will be badly

JASON PRAMAS November 13, 2025

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

A recent rally in support of Rümeysa Öztürk at Somerville City Hall.

Can Nonviolent Activists Thwart ICE Snatch Squads?

Rallies in support of recently detained immigrants like Rümeysa Öztürk are important, but might it be possible to prevent federal agents from arresting immigrants in similar situations in the first place?

JASON PRAMAS April 3, 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

NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING RESIDENTS STRUGGLE TO GET VACCINATION APPOINTMENTS

“If I haven’t been able to get it for myself, what will this mean for them?”

TIBISAY ZEA February 2, 2021

Boston international students coronavirus

“ALL OF A SUDDEN, YOU’RE LIKE A CRIMINAL: ‘WE DON’T WANT YOU HERE'”

Frustrated, some international students distance from US

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN August 11, 2020

UP TO THE CHALLENGE, FOR CHELSEA: DOCTOR EXPLAINS TRIUMPHS, TERROR OF COVID STRUGGLE

“In a community like Chelsea, with many families in one [housing] unit … With a disease as contagious as this one, isolation is the key.”

RICH TENORIO July 6, 2020

QUARANTINED WITH THE ENEMY: INCREASED CHALLENGES FOR VICTIMS, ADVOCATES

“We help them understand that they are in danger. Information is very important. This country is different from our [Latin American] countries. In this country, there is a lot of help for victims of domestic violence and many do not know it.”

IÑAKI ESTÍVALIZ May 20, 2020

COVID PHOTOS: CHELSEA MOM SEES NEWBORN FOR FIRST TIME AFTER 44 DAYS IN QUARANTINE

While Gonzalez was recovering, her family members back in Chelsea watched after her newborn. After finally testing negative, on May 12 she saw Victoria for the first time in 44 days as she was discharged from Spaulding.

KEIKO HIROMI May 12, 2020