Immigration

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.

Economic officials and immigrant advocates are urging lawmakers to consider bolstering supports for the 30,000 foreign-born Vermonters that make up a growing share of the state’s workforce.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a motion by the federal government to delay or block the Tufts University doctoral student's transfer to Vermont for a bail hearing. The judges also stated that if the government detained Öztürk to prevent speech with which it disagrees, "Such an act would be a violation of the Constitution."

NPR spoke to immigration experts and lawyers and reviewed government documents to break down the steps and associated costs of the U.S. deportation process.

The administration's recent actions to fire immigration judges and other steps are chipping away at what was already an imperfect system in administrative courts.