BOSTON – U.S. Senator Edward Markey, U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, and community activists spoke to a fired-up crowd at the Irish Famine Memorial on Tuesday afternoon to defend affordable health care, workers' rights, and immigrants' rights in the face of possible challenges by the Trump Administration.
Recently released memos from the Department of Homeland Security have given more detail to the tighter immigration laws and procedures outlined in the border security executive order President Donald Trump signed in January, a topic that was frequently mentioned during the "We Will Resist" rally at the corner of Washington Street and School Street in downtown Boston.
The brouhaha over the recently ended activity by Northampton police to offer high-fives to elementary students as they walked into school is missing one element crucial to any conflict: two sides.
