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It’s Happening Here

Waltham family searching for answers after New Year’s Eve ICE arrest, Isabella Lapiore, The Waltham Times, 1/4/26

https://walthamtimes.org/2026/01/04/waltham-family-searching-for-answers-after-new-years-eve-ice-arrest/

Babson freshman deported while trying to fly home for Thanksgiving 11/28/25

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/11/28/babson-freshman-deported-while-trying-to-fly-home-for-thanksgiving

Lincoln Witness Co-Founder pens editorial for local newspaper, 11/4/25

https://lincolnwitness.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/My-Turn_-Lincoln-in-the-ICE-age.pdf

Originally published in the Lincoln Squirrel on Nov, 4, 2025

https://lincolnsquirrel.com/

Members of Lincoln Witness Join: Protesters show solidarity with New Bedford father, son at ICE check-in, Kevin G. Andrade, The New Bedford Light, 10/7/25

https://newbedfordlight.org/protesters-show-solidarity-with-new-bedford-father-son-at-ice-check-in

Inside the Scrappy Network of Volunteers Protecting Their Neighbors From ICE: On the ground with the Fuerza rapid response team in Waltham, Massachusetts, Julia Lurie, Mother Jones, Sept.-Oct. 2025

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/ice-deportation-trump-miller-homan-waltham-massachusetts-fuerza-volunteers/

ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, Sebastian Agudelo Gomez & Ana Mondello-Mata, NBC10 Boston, 9/22/25

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/ice-agents-held-5-year-old-girl-outside-leominster-home-to-get-father-to-surrender-family-says/3813686

Hundreds were Detained in ICE’s Burlington Office for Multiple Days, data shows, Miriam Wasser, WBUR, 9/17/25

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/09/17/ice-burlington-deportation-data-immigrant-arrest

Student captures video of first confirmed ICE stop in Lexington, Maggie Scales, The Lexington Observer, 9/16/25

https://lexobserver.org/2025/09/16/ice-took-two-men-into-custody-in-lexington-mass

ICE crackdowns intensify across Boston as sanctuary cities face Trump’s latest operation, Leah Willingham, Michael Casey and Holly Ramer, NBC 10Boston, 9/16/25

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/ice-in-boston-massachusetts-as-sanctuary-cities-face-trumps-latest-operation/3809609/

Lincoln Witness was there to support: Milford teen briefly detained by ICE agents meets with immigration officials, Kaitlin Gehlhaus, WCVB5, 9/15/25

https://www.wcvb.com/article/milford-teen-ice-meeting-burlington-massachusetts/66102319

Ice’s Tough Tactics Were Forged on the Streets of Boston, Brenna T. Smith, Jack Gillum, &
Michelle Hackman, Annie Ng (Design), The Wall Street Journal, 9/15/25

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ice-boston-tough-tactics-da882816

ICE restarts detainee flights out of Hanscom airport, Todd Wallack, WBUR, 9/15/25

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/09/15/ice-flights-hanscom-airport

Lincoln Witness was there to see 3 activists arrested outside Burlington ICE office after trying to deliver food to detainees, Miriam Wasser, WBUR, 9/12/25

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/09/12/activists-arrested-burlington-field-office-ice

‘Intimidation’: Mass. Rep. Moulton decries immigration arrest in Marblehead, John L. Micek, masslive.com, 9/12/25

https://www.masslive.com/politics/2025/09/intimidation-mass-rep-moulton-decries-immigration-arrest-in-marblehead.html

Acton pizzeria employee detained by ICE, Sarah Betancourt, GBH, 8/5/25

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-08-05/acton-pizzeria-employee-detained-by-ice

ICE Check-Ins Become Catch-22 for Immigrants, Sarah Betancourt, HorizonMass, 6/17/25

https://horizonmass.news/2025/06/17/ice-check-ins-become-catch-22-for-immigrants/

It’s Happening Nationally

The Height of Close-Combat Weaponry Is on This Woman’s Doorstep, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, The New York Times, 1/28/26

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/ice-agent-weapons-minneapolis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFA.Isac.Z6L4jmtFy61r&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings, a Wall Street Journal Visual Investigation, 1/10/26

https://apple.news/AoRTDJvqGSeSaDDtEcjjn0A

Wife of Minnesota woman killed in ICE shooting: ‘We had whistles. They had guns,’ Michael Biesecker, The Associated Press, 1/9/26

https://apnews.com/article/ice-shooting-minneapolis-victim-renee-good-d95e86716eec328a288866108acf78eb

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days, Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 10/16/25

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will

ICEing the Economy, Paul Krugman, Paul Krugman’s Substack, 8/20/25

ICEing the Economy, Paul Krugman, Paul Krugman’s Substack

Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys, Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 8/19/25

https://newrepublic.com/article/199263/federal-agents-dc-takeover-proud-boys-far-right-violence

ICE sent 3 U.S. citizen children, including boy with cancer, to Honduras with their deported moms, Daniella Silva, NBC News, 8/13/25

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-deport-us-citizen-kids-stage-4-cancer-honduras-rcna224501

Judge hears evidence about ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ environmental concerns, Marlene Lenthang & Juliette Arcodia, ABC News, 8/6/25

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-hears-evidence-environmental-concerns-alligator-alcatraz-rcna223356

The Professor Who Quantified Democracy: Erica Chenoweth’s data shows how—and when—authoritarians fall, Lydialyle Gibson, Harvard Magazine, July-Aug. 2025

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/07/erica-chenoweth-democracy-data-harvard

What is legal during ICE raids? PBS News, 7/25/25

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE, Kimberly Kindy & Amanda Seitz, The Associated Press, 7/17/25

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-medicaid-trump-ice-ab9c2267ce596089410387bfcb40eeb7

Exclusive: Thousands of agents diverted to Trump immigration crackdown, Brad Heath, Joshua Schneyer, Marisa Taylor, Sarah N. Lynch and Mike Spector, Reuters, 3/22/25

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-agents-diverted-trump-immigration-crackdown-2025-03-22/