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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — State legislators, town officials and residents gathered outside City Hall Saturday afternoon to show solidarity with immigrant communities, calling out the impact of federal immigration policies and urging continued support amid the rising threat of deportations.

GREENFIELD — With a program of speakers and music on Saturday, the Immigrant Rights Task Force of Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution hopes to help people learn more about the challenges facing the immigrant community and invite residents to join in the effort to support them.

LEVERETT — As Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions take place across Massachusetts, with some happening in the region, a panel discussion is being held at the Mount Toby Friends Meetinghouse, 194 Long Plain Road (Route 63) Monday night.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — In conjunction with the “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America” Smithsonian exhibit on democracy that is now on display at Mohawk Trail Regional School, the school partnered with the Center for New Americans for a panel welcoming immigrants to tell their stories of becoming Americans.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — University of Massachusetts officials are dispelling unconfirmed chatter this week that federal agents affiliated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were present on the Amherst campus.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — For her work supporting the immigrant community housed at the Days Inn shelter before its February closure, Wendy Goodman has received the 2024 Human Rights Award.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier Regional and Union 38 School Committees solidified their policies on access to education, student privacy and immigration enforcement this week.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

MONTAGUE — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested four farmworkers associated with Red Fire Farm earlier this month as part of a six-day operation throughout the state, including a raid in Springfield, that resulted in the arrests of 370 allegedly undocumented immigrants.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — Residents came before the Selectboard on Monday to discuss the status of immigrant sanctuary in Gill, police response to possible Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in town, and options for community outreach and information sharing on immigration rights.

By ALEXA LEWIS

A virtual briefing on immigrant and refugee rights and protections hosted by state Rep. Mindy Domb and state Sen. Jo Comerford drew a crowd of more than 200 participants earlier this week.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — As the state-funded Days Inn shelter, which has predominantly housed Haitian immigrants and refugees, prepares to close its doors on Friday, the five families still living there are ready to move to new lodgings, according to ServiceNet, the human service agency that runs the shelter.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and CHRIS LARABEE

While there have been no Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents reported at schools in the region, district administrators around the county are laying out how schools will respond if ICE agents approach them.

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Nothing could knock down Claudia Quintero on the day she received her green card and work permit at 17 years old — she was too elated to notice anything else.

By MARA MELLITS

For Patricia, a farmworker in Hampshire and Franklin counties, a typical day in the growing season starts at 4 a.m. A single mother who immigrated to the United States from El Salvador in 2003, she drops her child off at a babysitter’s house before going to work. She often doesn’t pick up the child until 6 or 7 p.m., or sometimes even later if she stays to pick vegetables.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — Even many in Donald Trump’s circle are unsure whether the president-elect intends to follow through on his often expansive, and some would say, hyperbolic rhetoric — the kind of exaggerated speech that heralded a “big, beautiful wall”...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — After more than 18 months operating as a state-funded shelter to house immigrants and refugees, the Days Inn shelter, operated by the service nonprofit ServiceNet, will close its doors on Feb. 28.ServiceNet Shelter and Housing Director...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — A group of local residents are raising money to help a Syrian refugee family that hopes to move to the village.With help from community members and $24,250 in donations, the Rimeh brothers and their families will join relatives in...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Mayor Ginny Desorgher discussed issues facing the state’s emergency shelter system with State Auditor Diana DiZoglio on Wednesday, just hours before Wendy Goodman, the city’s appointed liaison to the Haitian immigrant community, informed...

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

EASTHAMPTON — When Marie Andrades lived in Haiti, she worked as a nurse. Now, sheltering with her mother and baby in Northampton, she is looking to find employment where she can make use of her transferable skills.“I [studied] nursing in Haiti. I have...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Community Relations Committee members met with the mayor, the mayoral-appointed liaison to the city’s Haitian immigrants and a Haitian immigrant living in Greenfield on Monday to discuss ways to best serve the needs of those living at the...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

AMHERST — On the 10th floor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Center, Samuel Noel, a welder by trade, works as a dishwasher — his first job in the United States.Noel, a Haitian immigrant who moved to Greenfield’s Days Inn shelter on...