IMMIGRATION

It's been 5 days since federal agents detained a landscape gardener from his job outside Creative Building Solutions on Maple Avenue in Great Barrington. Owners of the building say the agents were wearing masks and refused to show IDs.

The seizures were part of the latest surge against suspected unlawful immigrants in Mass.

We talk to folks from the Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee and visit Plainvill Farm for asparagus season.

Today on The Rundown, Carrie Saldo and ists discuss ICE presence in western Mass., how federal funding cuts could impact the local arts and culture economy, how municipalities prepare for future climate disasters and much more.

Federal immigration agents arrested two men at an apartment complex in Great Barrington early Tuesday morning.

We talk with Mr. Universe about funding cuts to scientific research and education, find out about the expansion of the Mass Kids Lit Festival and check in with the Center for New Americans they face changes in programming.

Federal immigration officials have restored the legal status of 13 UMass Amherst international students. Earlier this month they were told they had to leave the country.

The records had been suddenly terminated in recent weeks, often without the students or their schools being notified.

Bishop William Byrne announced the agency's new executive director, Shaina Rodriguez, at a press conference in the diocese pastoral center.

In less than a week's time, more than a dozen University of Massachusetts Amherst students who were preparing for careers in science, the humanities and other fields saw their goals take a sudden turn when their legal status to live and study in the U.S. disappeared.