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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 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

BOSTON — Pro-immigrant nonprofits, organizers, and politicians from across the state are bracing for a second Trump presidency as they seek to protect the state’s undocumented population — and a letter recently addressed to Gov. Maura Healey may give glimpses into the reality of challenges ahead, which may include lawsuits and jail time for those disregarding federal immigration laws.

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 CHRIS LISINSKI

President-elect Donald Trump continues to pledge large-scale deportations of foreign-born residents, stoking concerns about massive economic consequences and reigniting debate in Massachusetts about law enforcement cooperation.Trump spent much of his...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — When Mount Holyoke College researchers Serin Houston and Anatasica Tucker talk about their recently completed database of migrant sanctuary policies enacted across the country, they can’t help but laugh at the sheer amount of work they...

By CASSANDRA DUMAY

State activists and party organizers from across the political spectrum are determining how to address Massachusetts residents’ new top concern — immigration — going into the 2024 election cycle.Recent polling by GBH, CommonWealth Beacon and MassINC...

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – A proposal to designate Athol a ‘non-sanctuary city’ is on hold – for now.A crowd of people filled the board’s meeting room and spilled out into the hallway at Tuesday night’s meeting, a number of whom wished to speak regarding a proposal put...

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – At its meeting next Tuesday, Oct. 3, the Selectboard will consider whether or not to declare Athol a “non-sanctuary city.”This was proposed by board member Brian Dodge at the Sept. 19 meeting in response to the possibility the town might be...

By COLIN A. YOUNG

With Massachusetts straining under an overburdened emergency shelter system and staring down a shortfall of workers, a group of more than 60 Bay State lawmakers is sending a letter urging the White House and Congress to work with haste to find a...

By ALISON KUZNITZ

Nearly $2 million in federal dollars will flow into Massachusetts and Boston city coffers to tackle the migrant housing crisis, with the money arriving just over a week after Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency due to strained shelter...