Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, along with mayors from Denver, New York and Chicago, was called to testify before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee regarding sanctuary city

House Republicans called for Wu and three other mayors to appear before Congress next month to testify about their "sanctuary jurisdictions." The post Wu is asked to testify before Congress about Boston’s ‘sanctuary’ status appeared first on Boston.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday that the Trump administration is trafficking in “a lot of bluster” as it threatens municipalities like Boston for purportedly giving inadequate support to Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

Federal immigration officials said Friday that they had arrested a Haitian national who was previously convicted of 17 criminal charges in Massachusetts. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston office said 25-year-old Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles was arrested Wednesday in Boston.

The sheer number of federal agencies involved showed President Donald Trump’s willingness to use federal law enforcement beyond the Department of Homeland Security to carry out his long-promised

Border czar Tom Homan told NBC News that several people with criminal convictions were apprehended in Chicago.

The insidious genius of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda is that it doesn’t always require full implementation to achieve its intended effect.

ICE agents arrested several undocumented individuals with criminal histories in Boston, including alleged gang members and some wanted for violent crimes such as rape and murder.

Here's what we know so far about ICE enforcement operations in the wake of several immigration-related executive orders Trump signed.

Boston is one of four cities under scrutiny by a House panel's investigation into so-called sanctuary cities. Why it matters: The probe is Mayor Michelle Wu's biggest test yet as to whether the city's commitment to protect immigrants,

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appear to have stepped up their detention of unauthorized immigrants, taking more than 500 people into custody on Thursday, almost twice the average number of daily arrests late last year.

The new Trump administration has launched a nationwide immigration crackdown that saw some 1,000 people arrested in a single day on Sunday, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement data. ICE field officers have been given a quota of 75 arrests per day, CNN reported — significantly higher than 2024 target numbers.