ust before she boarded her flight at Logan airport on 20 November, she was arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and within 48 hours was deported back to Honduras, a country she left aged seven seeking asylum, with chains on her waist, ankles and wrists.
She told the Globe from her grandparent’s house in San Pedro Sula that her American Dream felt over: “I’m losing everything.”
The east coast US city might be a little short on holiday cheer this year.
Masked men in dark cars roam the streets carrying out immigration raids at traffic stops, supermarkets and courthouses. Fear has emptied some classrooms as teachers report thousands of empty desks because immigrant families fear children targeted as they learn.
An Ecuadorian couple in Boston who suffered human trafficking in the US were arrested by ICE twice in the last four months. In August the 43-year-old mother, who the Guardian is not naming, was detained for two months and 10 days. On 9 December, her husband was also arrested and is currently held in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
One-year-old Mohammed Bassiouni died of exposure to the cold on Tuesday. It was his first birthday.That...
Casualty counts in the last 24 hours: Over the past 24 hours, the bodies of 15...
The death of a man who was being held at a federal detention camp in Texas...
US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her...
