Sarah Betancourt

Latina covering MA since 2007. 🇵🇷 reporter @gbhnews. ✍🏼 🎤usually immigration. freelances. 2018 @IRE_NICAR award @propublica.

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

GBH, in partnership with @USCAnnenberg, published the first feature in an ongoing series about the impact of detention on the mental health of immigrant families.

https://t.co/Y9TlVVlGYg #immigrationnews

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

Some of the detained include individuals who were protected by Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement, a Biden-era program for people who are victims and witnesses of labor investigations and violations. https://t.co/kEwqR3hfec

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

The South Coast is seeing the biggest ICE operation it has seen in years. In New Bedford alone, at least 40 people have been detained since Monday, according to advocates, and at least three more in Fall River.

https://t.co/kEwqR3hfec #immigrationnews

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

Three undocumented brothers who shared an apartment in New Bedford went to a Market Basket on Monday, doing their usual grocery pick-up for themselves, and a separate one for their brother, sister-in-law and baby niece…. https://t.co/kEwqR3hfec

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

Alright I’m staying up reading it

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

Antonia Lucas says that she and her partner Miguel Ixcun were driving home around noon on Monday when two vehicles stopped them, blocking their vehicle in front and behind....

https://t.co/04BljIQQQq

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

“He was scared. They didn’t even take time to talk with him really,” Lucas said of ICE agents detaining her partner. Their two daughters, ages 3 and 9, were in the back seat. “They were very scared, afraid.”

https://t.co/04BljIRoFY #immigrationnews

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

The changes are the result of the Trump administrations’ One Big Beautiful Bill and are ultimately creating eligibility changes that affect immigrants’ access to health coverage and state Medicare programs.

https://t.co/BS8Y6x5Aa3

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

Attys recounted how during scheduling hearings, IJ Cooper said he’d had a good experience visiting Brazil, and implied that because he had had a good experience, he couldn’t imagine why anyone would be afraid to return to Brazil for valid reasons. https://t.co/yFBfFv3wS6

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

One attorney had to pause her maternity leave after an associate messaged her frantically saying the judge was making irregular decisions.
https://t.co/yFBfFv3wS6 #immigrationnews

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

The Trump administrations new public charge rule goes into effect today for green card applicants. Here's what  changes:
https://t.co/HdhSu1JKM0

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

Sailors? Long before green cards and civics tests, here's what U.S. naturalization looked like

https://t.co/UgntiWnbCc #immigrationnews #history

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

“They say like, 'I had WIC for my child. I had to give them food. I had to give them milk. Does that mean now I can’t provide for my child?” recounted Tania Martinez of @aila_ne.

https://t.co/HdhSu1JKM0 #immigrationnews

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

“They don’t understand the law that they’re applying. It’s like replacing the U.S. Olympic diving team with a bunch of kids told to do belly flops — that’s what these judges are doing. They’re following orders,” said Heather Yountz, of @MassLawReform.

https://t.co/wFifig4H8e

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

Finally public:

Jon Stewart on 9/11 Air Quality Cover-up https://t.co/Kd1Q0qLgkS

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

“It’s nerve-wracking. It’s like your entire world, it’s backwards now. It’s like somebody moved the rug under you and everything is crumbling down,” said Maria, a Salvadoran TPS recipient.

https://t.co/cGchg0rOtn

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

Massachusetts DACA recipients talk about the court decision that forces them to stay in the US— or risk pending green card applications, and the prospect of being unable to re-enter the country.

https://t.co/XnTbCuliFT #immigrationnews #advanceparole

[PBS News @NewsHour]

In the months since the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians living in the U.S., hundreds of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have received ankle monitors from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The ankle monitors, a tracking method the agency uses as an alternative to detention, have been a source of shame for many of the former TPS recipients, said Viles Dorsainvil, who runs Springfield's Haitian Support Center.

“It makes them feel embarrassed, and they don't want to show this to the kids,” Dorsainvil said. “I have a cousin of mine who has it. And when he came home, he was even embarrassed just to look at me in the eyes.”

On Aug. 31, Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old college student and Springfield resident, died in an apparent suicide. In July, he wrote on social media about “carrying a feeling of shame and humiliation” after receiving an ankle monitor.

Stephanie Sy (@TheStephSy) reports.

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

Doesn't apply to everyone, but this is a solid assessment IMO. "It’s a striking irony of privilege—the estrangement enabled by security. When you no longer need your family to survive, you also lose the incentive to work through what makes them difficult."
https://t.co/SD4uU6wOsq

[Arelis R. Hernández @arelisrhdz]

Pierre Damas Bel’s family said the 20yo college student felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE officers placed on him after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants.
https://t.co/0YoRRjBNMx

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

He Spent 27 Years on Death Row as a Wrongfully Convicted Man. https://t.co/tL61tJSrBF