Immigration

A new film by MacPherson Christopher and Paul Rosenfeld follows migrant farmworkers in rural Vermont as they endure harsh working conditions and the threat of deportation while forging community through soccer leagues.

In 'Babylon: Journeys of Refugees,' theater director Eric Bass uses narrative inspired by living testimony of refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East, Europe and Africa.

The Trump administration is seeking to deport Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia University student, and Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, as part of its crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists.

Vermont renewed an agreement with federal immigration authorities to hold detainees in state prisons. The new contract increases the fee per detainee that the feds must pay.

The Vermont-based author writes about the state through the lens of softball and abstract art.

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

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.

After the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in the fall of 2021, the U.S. evacuated tens of thousands of Afghans whose lives were in danger. About 100 of them ended up as refugees in Brattleboro. Among them was a group of women who share their stories in a new podcast series.

Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts said farmers across the state are concerned about federal immigration enforcement after border agents arrested eight migrant farmworkers last month in northwestern Vermont.