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Massachusetts Gaining Migrants While Losing High Earners, Report Says

Massachusetts is seeing a historic surge in migration — but not from within the United States. While domestic out-migration continues to drain the state of working-age professionals and high-income earners, an influx of foreign migrants is propping up the Bay State’s population growth. However, this shift raises concerns about the

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Dominican Drug Trafficker To Be Deported Second Time After Serving Second Prison Sentence

A Dominican convicted drug trafficker caught in the United States after having been deported was taken into custody by federal immigration officers only after Boston police who arrested him last year transferred him to New Hampshire on unrelated charges, according to federal court papers.

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Healey Administration Urges Massachusetts Legislature To Tighten State's Right To Shelter Law

Governor Maura Healey's administration wants to make big changes to the Massachusetts's emergency shelter system.

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No Sanctuary: ICE Targets Boston's Criminal Illegal Immigrants

Did you hear about the Haitian gang member with 17 criminal convictions who Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested in Boston this week? A Fox News video shows him yelling, "I'm not going back to Haiti! F*** Trump! You feel me? Yo, Biden forever, bro. Thank Obama

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Massachusetts State Legislator Explains Support For Bill That Would Let Noncitizens Vote In Local Elections

A bill on Beacon Hill would allow certain non-citizens to vote in municipal elections. The measure, "An Act Extending Voting Rrights in Municipal Elections To Noncitizen Voters of the Commonwealth (SD.369/HD.765), would allow legal U.S. residents who are not citizens to vote in town and

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Maura Healey Proposes Residency Requirement For Massachusetts Right-To-Shelter Law

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey wants to put a residency requirement on the state's right-to-shelter law -- after more than a year of resisting it.

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Judge Shelley Joseph Faces Formal Misconduct Charges Over 2018 Illegal Immigrant Case

Massachusetts district court judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph is now facing formal charges of "willful judicial misconduct," brought by the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct, according to a press release from the department. These charges come from her involvement in a 2018 incident in which she is accused

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El Salvador Illegal Immigrant Rapist Who Has Been Deported Eight Times Sentenced In Boston For Illegally Re-Entering United States

An illegal immigrant rapist from El Salvador has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for unlawfully re-entering the United States after multiple deportations. Melvin Alexander Orellana-Martinez, 54, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns. This federal sentence is to run