1+ week, 4+ day ago   (678+ words) Facing the prospect of a discrimination lawsuit, the Vermont Department of Corrections has agreed to provide federal immigration detainees in its prisons with better access to language interpretation, legal counsel and court hearings. The Vermont Human Rights Commission announced Tuesday…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1234+ words) WILLISTON, Vt. — Early on May 14, Hank Prensky slipped into a drab office park to take up a position before the mirrored glass doors of a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement surveillance center. For the next four hours, he and about…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (436+ words) A new Vermont law designed to combat the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown will allow people to sue government officials in state court over alleged violations of their federal constitutional rights. Governor Phil Scott, a Republican, allowed the measure to become…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (576+ words) A leader of a Vermont-based immigrant rights group is facing federal charges for what prosecutors called “multi-year conspiracies” to smuggle undocumented people into the United States for money and fraudulently acquire driver’s licenses for others. A federal grand jury returned…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (738+ words) MONTPELIER, Vt. — In the week since an immigration raid led to a violent protest in South Burlington, Vt., officials have been mostly unified in blaming federal authorities for escalating the situation. But at the first high-profile hearing over the incident…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1102+ words) BURLINGTON, Vt. — They didn’t come for the fall foliage, or the skiing — not even for the freshly boiled maple syrup. Instead of the natural wonders of the Green Mountain State, the two-dozen people who gathered for a bus tour Tuesday…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1201+ words) SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — A furious round of finger pointing and condemnation erupted in Vermont on Thursday over the first major skirmish in the state on the Trump administration’s immigration policies, a raid by federal agents that went awry and culminated…...

7+ mon, 4+ day ago   (841+ words) WILLISTON, Vt. — A gray-haired brigade of protesters entered a nondescript office park Monday and pledged to remain until a particular tenant was evicted — or they were arrested. The tenant in question was US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which operates its…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (650+ words) Steven Tendo has feared for years that, if forced to return to his native Uganda, he could face dire consequences. “Deporting me back to my country would be a death sentence,” he has said. That outcome became more likely Wednesday…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (798+ words) MONTPELIER, Vt. — The day after a second protester was shot in Minneapolis last weekend amid the federal immigration crackdown, Vermont’s Republican governor, Phil Scott, issued an unusually blunt response for the understated leader. “Enough,” he wrote. “It’s not acceptable for…...