ICE, Boston and protesters
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Protesters gathered in frigid Boston on Saturday, for the second consecutive day, to show opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
The young woman’s phone was the only barrier between her and the hood of a suspected ICE agent’s car, which was turned off and parked just paces from the East Boston District Courthouse on Friday morning.
The Boston Police Department received 57 requests from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants in 2025 — and ignored all of them, according to the agency.
Boston rejected every ICE detainer request last year, citing sanctuary laws, as the Trump administration files a lawsuit and critics raise public safety concerns.
Braving 13-degree cold, hundreds rallied in the streets of Downtown Boston on Saturday night, just hours after a federal agent fatally shot a man in Minnesota.
ICE is a "broken" agency that needs to be "completely overhauled," Gov. Maura Healey said, calling for reforms. The post Laying into ICE, Healey stops short of saying it should be abolished appeared first on Boston.
Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey joined Boston labor unions at an anti-ICE rally on Friday, calling for ICE to be abolished.
Thousands of protesters again hit the frigid streets of Minneapolis on Friday, calling on ICE to end its aggressive immigration crackdown, while former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested and hit with a federal civil rights charge after taking part in a protest against a pro-ICE pastor inside a church last Sunday.