Leah Foley, a 23-year federal prosecutor, was elevated to the top federal law enforcement post for the state of Massachusetts as the President Trump administration took power.
Illegal Immigration
ICE details Boston arrest of illegal Haitian gang member
The Haitian gang member who has become the face of President Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown continued to commit crimes after a local correctional facility reportedly released him without honoring a federal immigration detainer.
Trump push to arrest illegal immigrants hits Boston
ICE has already begun rounding up hundreds of illegal immigrant criminals across the country just two days into the Trump administration’s aggressive push — with one Boston-area Haitian gang member telling agents “(expletive) Trump, Biden forever!”
Laken Riley Act: Massachusetts delegation overwhelmingly opposes immigration bill
U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch says he believes Congress has “lost control of the immigration process in this country,” casting Massachusetts’ only yes vote on a bill named after a Georgia nursing school student murdered by an illegal immigrant.
Undocumented immigrant residing in Lowell held on $1M bail for alleged child rape
BOSTON — A Guatemalan national living in Lowell faces a $1 million bail after being charged in Suffolk Superior Court with rape of a girl, which allegedly began when she was 5 years old.
Healey vs. ICE: Massachusetts’ sanctuary status under fire
A top ICE official is blasting back at Gov. Maura Healey’s declaration that Massachusetts is “not a sanctuary state.”