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‘All are welcome here’
Frigid ice and snow swept across Martha’s Vineyard this week. While at home and safe from the storm outside, many Islanders watched, through TVs and phone screens, as a different ICE descended on the state of Minnesota. Violent confrontations between federal forces and community members have surged, which some say is a much more frightening…
Helping an island across the ocean
Smells of spicy jerk chicken, rice and peas, and mannish water soup wafted through the Island Inn event center in Oak Bluffs on Saturday evening as guests gathered for a community fundraiser to help Jamaicans rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. Some 200 people came out for the “Donate, Dine, & Dance: M.V. Chefs’…
Surge of ICE agents recedes, but undercurrent of fear remains
The wave of federal immigration agents who flooded the Island this spring making mass arrests seems to have subsided, at least for now. But local community leaders and immigrant advocates say the fear among immigrants on the Island remains a strong undercurrent. At the end of last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported…
series on Brazilian immigration
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