Samantha Gross
Politics Reporter at The Boston Globe
@bostonglobe politics, @miamiherald alumna • Hoosier • @comatbu grad • she/her • tips and chisme: [email protected] 🏳️🌈
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4 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Samantha Gross |Dan Glaun |Matt Stout
Federal officials on Monday said that immigration authorities had arrested 1,461 people in Massachusetts in May, just over half of whom had a “significant criminal history.”“Make no mistake, ICE is going to keep doing this,” acting ICE director Todd Lyons said at a Monday press conference.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Samantha Gross |Danny McDonald
OAK BLUFFS — As the summer season ramps up on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, federal agents descended on the tony islands, arrested 40 immigrants, and swiftly brought them to the mainland. Photos and videos of the detained immigrants, wearing neon life jackets, circulated online as they were taken off the islands in Coast Guard boats.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Samantha Gross |Matt Stout
Governor Maura Healey‘s administration failed to “adequately” prepare for the escalating strain migrant and homeless families put on the state’s emergency shelter system in 2023, prompting officials to turn to what investigators called an ”unlawful" use of no-bid contracts for food and transportation, the state auditor’s office charged Tuesday.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Samantha Gross
State officials will close all 32 hotels housing families in the emergency shelter system this summer, Governor Maura Healey announced Monday. Healey had previously directed the hotels to close by the end of 2025, but said in a statement that the plan is now six months “ahead of schedule.” “A hotel is no place to raise a family, and they are the least cost effective,” Healey said in a statement.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Samantha Gross
Responding to “widespread economic uncertainty at the national level,” Governor Maura Healey’s office is putting a pause on hiring across a broad swath of state government, her office announced Wednesday. The executive branch hiring freeze, which will take effect May 27, comes as the state braces for the impacts of federal funding cuts and an unsettled economy. While in effect, most agencies and departments will not be able to hire new employees and there will be no formal waiver process.
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