The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is recommending public colleges and universities join a national trade association for abortion providers.
It's one of the suggestions the state agency made in a 47-page blueprint made public Wednesday that is designed to help public schools of higher learning "to take steps toward maximizing access to abortion services for their students" by providing pregnant female students abortion pills or referrals for them.
Deportation officers from Boston's Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested a 37-year-old Brazilian national near his West Tisbury home last week.
Saulo Cardoso Ferreira, convicted of raping a 5-year-old child in his home country, had fled Brazil after being handed a 14-year sentence and was wanted by Brazilian authorities, according to a press release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Ferreira entered the United States illegally at an unknown date and location without inspection or admission by an immigration official, according to federal authorities, who say they were alerted to Ferreira's presence on Martha's Vineyard on September 28.
Ferreira during a vehicle stop in West Tisbury on Tuesday, November 14. He was served with a notice to appear before a federal immigration judge, and is in federal custody pending his court appearance.
"This undocumented Brazilian national represented a significant threat to the inhabitants of Martha's Vineyard," said Todd Lyons, director of the Boston field office of Enforcement and Removal Operations, in a written statement. "He sexually assaulted a 5-year-old child in his homeland, and then ran from authorities when held accountable for his actions."
"ERO Boston will not allow such predators to threaten our residents," Lyons added. "We will continue to apprehend and remove anyone who attempts to use our New England community as a refuge from justice."
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