Immigration and Customs Enforcement

A group of protestors that cemented themselves to the gates of the Bristol County House of Correction on Monday have been removed and arrested on multiple charges.

A Portuguese national, residing in New Bedford, was sentenced yesterday in federal court for assaulting a federal officer during his arrest by ICE officers.

Wednesday morning, State Representative James Lyons (R-Andover) will be leading a press conference on the steps of the State House to formally introduce legislation being filed in the Massachusetts House of Representatives that would allow local and state law enforcement to work with federal immigration authorities to detain suspected illegal immigrants wanted by Immigration and Customs Enforcemen

DARTMOUTH — Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson is working with state lawmakers to immediately file and pass legislation that will strengthen the partnership between local, state and federal law enforcement in their shared mission to enforce laws and keep citizens and legal residents safe...

When it comes to the issue of what to do about illegal immigrants, more and more people and groups are throwing their unbridled support behind the non-criminal illegal immigrant. Brian Thomas believes the message is getting clearer each week...

According to Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker made the correct move by allowing the State Police to detain, for up to 48 hours, undocumented immigrants.There is a caveat. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has to make the request...

Majority of LEGAL immigrants collecting welfare. Unaccompanied minor immigrants collect more taxpayer dollars

A service at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at St. James Parish this weekend wrapped up four days of activities remembering the 2007 Michael Bianco Immigration Raid in New Bedford. 20 Year old Luis Gomez will never forget that day.  His mother, who worked at the Bianco plant and was pregnant, was taken into custody, and served about a month in jail...