Customs & Immigration

More than 100 members of the public turned out for the Burlington Airport Commission meeting Wednesday to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and its use of the facility to transfer detainees out of state.

ICE agents recently took people through a non-public side entrance at the Burlington airport, VTDigger reporters.

The arrests took place between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Wilmer Chavarria, the leader of the Winooski School District and a U.S. citizen, said federal agents at the Houston airport demanded that he hand over the passwords to his phone and district-issued laptop.

Pastor Steven Tendo is an asylum-seeker from Uganda currently residing in Colchester. He joined Vermont Public live in-studio on Monday, July 21, before an ICE check-in later that day.

Once deported to Bhutan, some Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees say they are told to leave. Many have since disappeared, while others are homeless and stateless, according to immigration advocates.

A mobile Mexican consulate set up in Montpelier to help nationals obtain passports, birth certificates and other official documents. An undocumented farmworker living in Vermont who drove his coworkers to the event discussed the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and his own journey to the U.S.

The arrest of eight Vermont dairy farmers in April sent shock waves throughout New England's agriculture industry, and farms and farmworkers remain worried amid uncertainty.

Midway through the event on Saturday, the farmworker advocacy organization Migrant Justice announced that Border Patrol had arrested and detained a family in Franklin County.

Federal immigration agents detained approximately 10 people at a construction site in Newport on Thursday, according to the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project.