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Emily T. Schwartz

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BU Groups Rally for Sanctuary Campus After Student Says He Called ICE on Allston Workers

Roughly 140 Boston University students rallied at BU’s Marsh Plaza on Friday afternoon before marching to the house of the school’s president, Melissa L. Gilliam, to demand she make BU a sanctuary campus to protect students from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


3 More Allston Car Wash Employees Detained by ICE Granted Release on Bond, Bringing Total to 6

Three of the nine workers arrested in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at Allston Car Wash earlier this month were granted release on bond in Massachusetts immigration court on Thursday morning, bringing the total number of employees granted bond to six.


Boston DSA and LUCE Rally for Allston Immigrants

People hold signs at a Monday rally and vigil for nine immigrants who were arrested at a car wash in Allston, organized by the Boston Democratic Socialists of America and the LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts.


Allston Leaders Demand Response from BU After Student Says He Called for ICE Arrests

Allston residents and Boston University alumni slammed the student president of the Boston University College Republicans after he claimed he had spent months asking Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrant workers in Allston.


Boston City Council Candidates Are Floating Ideas to Address Allston’s Stalled Community Center

With elections for the Boston City Council less than a week away, a long-running sore spot for Allston-Brighton residents has returned to the public eye through several candidates’ campaign platforms: the still unaddressed future of the neighborhood’s condemned community center.