A record surge in arrests. A state of fear and loss. Life in the shadow of ICE.

Boston Globe

02-07-2025

In May,
an era of mass deportations.
About 13 million people are in the country without authorization, some have been here for decades. Polls suggest a majority of
The Globe spent seven days
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Frilei Brás cradled his 1-year-old toddler, Pedro, in his arms as he said goodbye before leaving his family and the country he has called home for 20 years.
Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
It was still dark outside his Stoughton home when Frilei Brás changed out of his pajamas, careful not to wake his family. The clock said 4:30 a.m. He needed to leave for the airport soon. He was self-deporting to Brazil, the country of his birth, 20 years after he entered the US illegally through the Texas border.
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His 9-year-old daughter watched from the living room couch as he sorted items he couldn't forget: phone, passport, a pocket-size Bible in Portuguese. In a plastic folder, he had stowed a document from the Brazilian consulate verifying how long he had been in the US.
Brás had no criminal record, but
he was undocumented, and there were marks against him that doomed his case under the new administration, his lawyer said. He was stopped for a traffic violation in 2018 and missed a court hearing years ago. He checked in with immigration enforcement regularly, and until recently had never had a problem. But at his last check-in, Brás was told to leave the country within 15 days or risk arrest.
He couldn't bear the thought of his children seeing him taken away in shackles.
He'd built a career working as a radio host, delivering news and religious teachings in Portuguese to the local Brazilian community, while raising a family with his wife, who is also undocumented. They'd shared the joys of their six children, now ages 1 to 19, all US citizens, and the pain of her diagnosis with Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that is attacking her body and brain and leaves her unable to work.
The family doesn't know yet how they will stay afloat without him. They have launched a GoFundMe, and the oldest daughter contributes where she can, picking up shifts at Dollar Tree. Brás plans to send money to the family, but Brazilian wages are worth little here — one Brazilian real is just 18 cents.
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Frilei Brás's children helped to carry his bags out of his home as he prepared to leave for the airport where he would self-deport back to Brazil, leaving his family behind in Stoughton.
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Frilei Brás lingered in the doorway of the kitchen as his as his daughters Sarah (right), 9, Clara (second from right), 19, and his son Rafael, 4, sat with his daughter's boyfriend just before he was to leave the house and his family for the last time in Stoughton.
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One by one, the children stumbled from their rooms, rubbing their eyes. They gathered in the living room, where a sign hung above the door: 'Families who pray together, stay together.'
As they squeezed onto the couch, Brás stood across from them, a rosary in his hand. Bowing their heads, the family prayed in Portuguese.
'Pai nosso que estás no céu, santificado seja o vosso nome…'
'Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name…'
His wife and children began to cry. Brás fought back tears and pulled his 4-year-old into a hug.
'Soon, you all will go see me, all right?' he said, though he knew he could not promise this. 'I love you all, OK? Everything is going to be OK.'
He turned to his older children. 'Help your mother. She needs a lot of your help.' Then to the little ones: 'Papai is leaving, but I'll call as soon as I get there.'
An hour later, outside Logan's Terminal E, Brás hugged the friend who'd given him a ride and gathered his suitcases. A recording of Governor Maura Healey played over speakers, welcoming new arrivals to a state where 'people from all over the world live.'
Brás walked through the security line toward the departure gate. Only then did his shoulders sag. Only then did he break down in tears.
Frilei Brás walked through Logan's Terminal E as he made his way toward security to leave the United States for his native Brazil, as he chose to self-deport.
Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
The early months of
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Just past 8 a.m. in Brighton, Margarita and her 9-year-old daughter, Katherin, climbed into the backseat of a car with a backpack in which Margarita kept their documents. Today, she feared, she might be detained.
A 38-year-old native of Honduras, Margarita, who asked to be identified by her first name for fear of government retaliation, had crossed the border into the US with her two oldest daughters more than a decade ago. Her asylum case was denied years ago, but ICE ignored her deportation order as long as she checked in with them occasionally. Some say people like Margarita should wait their turn and apply to come into the country legally, as many across the world have done. But those fleeing violence and poverty often don't see that years-long process as a viable one.
When Trump took office in January. ICE required her to show up for check-ins every few weeks. Officials snapped a monitoring bracelet around her ankle. A few weeks ago, they told her she had until July to leave. It was June 18.
She sought assistance from Centro Presente, an immigrant advocacy organization in East Boston, which helped her appeal; a volunteer from the group drove mother and daughter to an ICE check-in in Burlington that day.
'I'm scared,' Katherin told her mother. She had never been to Honduras. She did not want to leave her older sister behind, or her cat. Margarita took her by the hand and they walked inside.
A few minutes later, the two emerged, smiling, incredulous. Margarita was told she did not need to buy a plane ticket back to Honduras after all. Her next check-in was in eight weeks. Why? She had no idea.
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'It was like God sent angels to protect me,' she said.
Margarita embraced her daughter Katherin, 9, during the car ride home after receiving positive news at her ICE check-in appointment in Burlington.
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There were no angels protecting the Ochoa house in Lynn, its doors locked and curtains drawn. A 13-year-old girl sat in her bedroom, wiping away tears. She wore a fancy red dress and white heels, Breed Middle School's official colors.
Today was Maddie Ochoa's eighth grade graduation. Her parents were supposed to be cheering in the audience as she walked across the stage. But yesterday her father, Joel, a painter, was taken by ICE on his way to a job site. He'd come to the United States from Guatemala two decades ago without authorization, and had been found guilty of operating under the influence in 2016. That was enough to get him arrested by immigration agents with no warning, and the family hadn't heard from him in more than 24 hours. It felt too dangerous to go outside, and no one felt like celebrating.
Still, the school called and offered to bring Maddie her diploma, so she put on the special dress she'd picked out. Two administrators arrived, handing her her diploma, flowers, and a pink stuffed bear.
All she could think about was her father. He was such a hard worker, she said, and he would do anything for his family. She couldn't bear him not seeing her graduate.
'I know he doesn't deserve this,' she said, as if pleading with those detaining him. 'All he does is try to be the best person.'
A crowd gathered for a meeting at a community center in New Bedford sat spellbound as Eliseo Gutierrez, who is from Honduras and does not have legal status, tried to describe what three weeks in detention was like. He had been released the day before, just in time to see his daughter's middle-school graduation. She'd won a prize in math.
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Gutierrez had been in the US for more than a decade, he said, and court records show that four years earlier he'd been charged with two traffic violations that had been dismissed. After his arrest, he had been held first at the ICE field office in Burlington, where he said he was rarely able to speak to his family and did not get enough food or water. About 40 men were crammed into just one room. 'There, they treat you like a dog,' he said.
He was transferred to the Plymouth ICE facility, he said, where detainees were treated 'more honorably,' and the conditions were better. Still he missed his wife and children. Back home, the 1-year-old would perch by the window each day, waiting to see his face.
Adrian Ventura, leader of New Bedford's Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores, a labor advocacy group, asked for donations to help the family. The people pulled dollar bills from their purses and wallets; one girl gave a shiny coin. The crowd erupted in applause when Ventura announced the total: $233.
Maddie Ochoa, 13, did not attend her middle school graduation because her father, Joel Bany Ochoa, was detained by ICE. So school officials brought her diploma to her.
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David S. said he'd help before he even understood why.
Now David found himself wandering the third floor of the immigration court in Boston with a 13-year-old boy from Brazil, wondering how he'd
gotten himself into this. (David asked the Globe to use only his last initial given the political sensitivity of the issue, and to avoid endangering the teenager's case.)
The boy's father had done some carpentry work on David's home in Woburn years ago, and they'd developed a friendship of sorts, exchanging occasional texts each had to patiently translate. Earlier that week, the man asked David for a favor: Could he take his son to an immigration hearing?
Now here they were, just him and the boy. David wondered if the family had asked him — a white, retired mail carrier living in Woburn — to avoid risking arrest.
David had never been to immigration court. He had no idea whether the family had a lawyer or what the case was about. He kept checking a screenshot on his phone to make sure he had the details right: 2 p.m., Judge Brenda O'Malley.
'I'm intimidated, to tell you the truth,' he said.
The boy, who spoke mostly Portuguese, said little. His eyes darted around the waiting room. David wondered what he'd do if ICE stopped him. He looked at the boy and thought of his own sons, both of them adults now.
When it was time to step into the courtroom, the boy suddenly struggled to walk. David put his arm around him and helped him into the empty courtroom.
A little after 2 p.m., Judge O'Malley appeared on a TV. A translator was up on the screen, too, and an attorney for the federal government. But there was no one to represent the boy.
The hearing ended quickly. David wasn't sure what had happened, but he gleaned the boy was at risk for deportation and would need to return to court next year.
David scribbled down the date: May 12, 2026.
That was his wife's birthday, he thought. He might not be able to return to court that day. He thought again of his own sons. Maybe he could.
How could a random neighbor help when even the immigration lawyers, good ones, are at a loss about how to navigate this new era of detention and deportation?
Jennifer Velarde has gotten used to delivering bad news, more of it every day. All afternoon on Wednesday, a parade of immigrants came through her law office, in a clapboard building across from the New Bedford waterfront. Velarde, 25 weeks pregnant, was careful not to offer any of them false hope.
A couple sat before her: The wife was a US citizen, the husband had no legal status. He had first entered the US from Honduras as a teenager but had been deported twice in the early 2000s, despite having no criminal record, he said. He had come back both times, something not uncommon for people with family ties in the US; now the administration has made it a priority to remove those who've already been deported.
These days, Velarde told them, returning after being deported got you 'permanent punishment.' There was not much Velarde could do. There was a very real possibility he could be arrested by ICE, she said. She encouraged them to make a plan for their children.
'From the bottom of my heart, I am so sorry,' Velarde said in Spanish.
The afternoon wore on, and people kept coming.
An Ecuadoran man weighing whether to self-deport. A Guatemalan mother of three who had been working to regularize her immigration status, but kept hitting dead ends.
A Venezuelan woman who had entered legally but had her humanitarian parole revoked by the Trump administration. Thousands of immigrants in Massachusetts with legal protections, including many Venezuelans and Haitians, are in her shoes — facing the prospect of losing their status as Trump cancels the programs that allow them to live and work here legally.
Velarde's last client of the day was a woman from El Salvador. In 2007, she'd been arrested during the raid on the Michael Bianco factory, where
Velarde prepared to leave for the day.
She
had promised to give free legal advice at a community meeting, then had to be home for her 2-year-old son.
Lately, the line of people asking for Velarde's help seemed never-ending. It's like this in immigration law offices across the country; the number of immigrants seeking advice has vastly outstripped the supply of attorneys.
'It feels like this is an emergency room,' she said.
Jonathan Paz embraced a woman inside a Waltham grocery store after a long chat explaining what his group, Fuerza, does to monitor for ICE activity in the neighborhood. Paz is part of a group of pink-vest-wearing volunteers who respond to reports of ICE activity. They record videos of agents interrogating people and remind people of their civil rights. The work has earned the volunteers a nickname: Angels.
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DAY TWO:
'TRY TO SURVIVE'
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Helena DaSilva Hughes was at home for the Juneteenth holiday, hosing down her deck, when her cellphone rang. It was a client from the organization she runs, the Immigrants' Assistance Center in New Bedford, who told her that
Reports like this have become a common occurrence in recent months, as ICE has tried to meet arrest quotas of 3,000 immigrants per day. Agents have become increasingly aggressive with their tactics in Massachusetts, haunting courthouses, often in plainclothes and masks; smashing in car windows and pulling passengers out; swarming work vans and detaining those inside.
This is never going to stop,
she thought.
A thick blanket of humidity had already fallen over Everett when Lucy Pineda arrived at the offices of Latinos Unidos en Massachusetts, or LUMA. An air conditioning unit wheezed from a corner window. A sign on the wall read, 'Gratitude Changes Everything!'
A native of El Salvador, Pineda, 52, runs a growing network of 2,500 volunteers that patrol neighborhoods all over the state, from Everett to Lynn to Worcester. Their mission: To warn communities of ICE activity, alerting families at risk of deportation.
Pineda knows the risks well. Just weeks ago, her brother, Emelio Neftaly Pineda, who has multiple criminal convictions, was
Pineda, who has legal status, insists she doesn't fear ICE. Still, recent events have put her on edge. 'I feel that nowhere is safe,' she said. 'It's like we're living in an occupied country, and I don't recognize it anymore.'
At midday, with the sun beating down, Pineda set out on one of her regular foot patrols near her office. She passed a mix of taquerias, bakeries, and barber shops.
Known for her brightly colored suits, Pineda has become something of a celebrity here. Passing drivers honked and people pulled up to offer gratitude. 'Gracias, Lucy!' shouted a woman from her car window. 'Viva la raza!' yelled another.
Otherwise, it was strangely quiet. Pineda pointed to a playground across from the Everett police station. It was virtually empty, apart from a lone man smoking on a bench. A public swimming pool was nearly deserted, despite the stifling heat.
'It's summer vacation!' Pineda said. 'This place should be full of kids playing. It's not normal.'
It was like that at Foss Park in Somerville, too. Day laborers normally gather here each morning, waiting for a car to pull up and offer work building decks, laying tile, painting a room. Not long ago 40 or so men would come each morning, now there are fewer than a dozen.
Those who remain are anxious. They fear that the drivers will show a badge, ask their immigration status, handcuff them.
Many of the men are undocumented. Even those who aren't are spooked. Adilson, a painter, had a friend who
had nearly been arrested by ICE in Everett two weeks ago. But he was able to prove his legal status and was let go. The friend's co-workers weren't so lucky.
Still, Adilson returns to Foss Park each morning.
'It's better to look for work than to jump from a bridge,' he said. 'People gotta try to survive.'
Liliane Costa, executive director of the Brazilian-American Center, worked with two young mothers who came to the office to sign documents directing where their children should go should the women be detained by ICE.
Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff
For a young mother visiting the Brazilian-American Center in Framingham, survival means making a plan for her children.
She has no legal status, nor does her husband, so she has brought her sister-in-law, Junaelia Santos, to sign a legal document naming her as their children's guardian, should it come to that.
The director of the center, Liliane Costa, explained the English-language form to them in Portuguese. For the two women, it really meant:
You can help them with their homework, and you can take them to the doctor. You can tuck them in at night and wake them up in the morning.
You can put them down for a nap. And you can put them on a plane to Brazil.
You can bring them back to me.
Junaelia Santos signed her name.
Antonio, a roofer from Ecuador, clicked the 'unlock' button on his keychain and heard the familiar beep of his Ford Escape. His face lit up.
He hadn't had his car in more than 40 days. Not since he was arrested by ICE in Upton and his car left abandoned on the side of the road. Police eventually had it towed to an auto shop across the street. Antonio, who has been in the country for two and a half years, asked that his full name not be used for fear of retribution against him or his family by ICE.
Now out on bond, Antonio had arrived with Diego Low, a local immigration advocate, and $1,140 in cash. But an employee of the lot said it would cost $1,789.90 to retrieve the vehicle.
At an ATM down the road, Antonio withdrew $300. Low withdrew another $300. They scrounged up the remaining $49 from their wallets, counted it all once more, and drove back to the shop.
This time, he could drive away in his Ford Escape. Freedom on four wheels, made in America.
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DAY THREE:
TODO ESTÁ BIEN
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Led by Lucy Pineda, LUMA's 2,500-plus volunteers scan streets for signs of ICE and post alerts on social media.
(
Video by Randy Vazquez/Globe Staff
)
Eric Amaya was walking into a Dunkin' for his morning coffee when his phone started buzzing: A man who appeared to be an ICE agent was parked directly across from his mechanic's shop in downtown Everett.
Amaya considered his options. He could ask the man to leave the parking lot, which was reserved for his customers. Or, he thought, he could pull out his phone and record the man's face and license plate number. He had seen videos of community activists appearing to scare off ICE agents by filming them.
But on this morning, as wind whipped the American flags on Chelsea Street, Amaya decided the risks of confronting a possible ICE agent were too great. He feared he or his workers could be arrested and deported if he drew attention to himself, even though they all had legal status.
Weeks earlier, a similar SUV with tinted windows waited in the same lot until two men left in a work van. The SUV driver, who turned out to be an ICE agent, pulled over and arrested both workers about a block away. They hadn't been heard from since.
So Amaya called Lucy Pineda.
Half an hour later, Pineda was running across the street in a bright orange blouse, screaming and yelling at the SUV with tinted windows. A man in a beige uniform sat hunched over the steering wheel, his face barely visible, as Pineda approached him with her smartphone raised in the air.
'Why do you have to go around persecuting our community?' Pineda yelled in Spanish. 'Why don't you find a different job, a respectable job to help your families?'
The confrontation lasted less than two minutes. As Pineda's shouting grew louder, the driver of the SUV quickly pulled out of the parking lot and sped away.
As the morning went on, Amaya's phone lit up with calls and text messages from customers and friends who'd seen Pineda's encounter on social media. They worried about him.
'Todo está bien,' Amaya kept saying into his phone. Everything is good.
But as he scanned his empty parking lot, Amaya was still angry. ICE agents had chased off his largely Central American and Haitian customers. Two of his four mechanics were afraid to show up for work.
'Todo está bien,' he told another caller.
Friday morning, Low, the immigration advocate who'd helped Antonio get his car back, had planned to meet an immigration attorney at the detention facility in Plymouth. As the director of the Metrowest Workers Center in Framingham, Low would act as a Spanish translator and interview the detained man, who had been severely injured on the job before his arrest, was still in pain, and might need surgery. Low hoped his interview would help make a case to get him released. It was an uphill battle, but worth a shot.
Shortly before Low planned to drive to Plymouth, however, his colleague told him about a text they had just received. Federal officials had put the man on a plane to Texas the night before. He was already in El Paso.
They were too late.
Marilín Rachel Barrera Martinez (left), 17, sat beside her mother, Irayda Marili Martinez de Barrera, who was talking Marilín's father and Irayda's husband, Luis Gerardo Barrera Ortiz, who was taken by ICE on the family's front steps in Lynn.
Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
Irayda Marili Martinez de Barrera held out a photograph of her husband, Luis Gerardo Barrera Ortiz, who was taken by ICE on the family's front steps as the couple's 8-month-old son, Luis Jose Barrera Martinez, who was named after his father, looked up.
Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
In early June, Luis Gerardo Barrera Ortiz, who came here nearly a decade ago from Guatemala, was arrested on the doorstep of his house in Lynn.
Plainclothes agents told him he had a final order of removal and arrested him as he was leaving for work. His whole family — a wife and three children
— watched as he was whisked away. They pleaded for the officials to let him go.
Now they waited inside, afraid to leave the house.
Marilín, 17, peeked out of the windows to make sure immigration officials weren't waiting for them on their front porch.
Eight-month-old Luis – named after his father and the only US citizen in the family — rolled around the living room in his walker. His mother prayed. The baby looked toward the door.
'We will not be at peace until we see him,' she said. 'We are waiting for a miracle.'
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DAY FOUR:
Respite
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On Saturday morning, under an already blazing sun, the crowd at LoPresti Park in East Boston laughed as a loose dog ran through the field. Team Blue scored again, leading to volleys of trash talk in mixed bursts of Spanish and English.
This was a rare moment to unwind, in a neighborhood where ICE action and rumors of it have run rampant for months.
Emmanuel Ortiz, a 22-year-old originally from Colombia, cooled off in the shade of a tree after the game.
He's a singer in a local band that plays salsa and pop music at weddings and other parties. These days, though, there aren't many of them. He's taken to busking in MBTA stations, but that makes him feel exposed. He has lawful immigration status and work permits, he said, but knows one interaction with an ICE agent could risk it all — the work he's done over four years to learn a new language, get into a trade program, build a life.
'If there's ICE here,' he said, cracking a rueful grin, 'I'd run even faster than I do on the field.'
Others have found a quieter respite in church. At St. Patrick's in Lowell on Saturday, dozens stood as the priest delivered a solemn benediction in Spanish. Many wore white polo shirts and faded jeans, clutching rosary beads.
This is their sanctuary, but even here they do not feel fully safe. Many of the worshipers, who hail from Central and South America, lack legal status. ICE raids have taken place just blocks away.
A large proportion of the immigrant community in Lowell comes from Ecuador, and works in roofing and other grueling jobs.
'The immigrant suffers greatly, because he is worked like a burro,' the Rev. Benito Moreno said. 'He works from 6 in the morning to 7 in the evening … and now that it's hot outside, there's much suffering, many problems.'
Moreno knows his charge is to soothe and to shepherd. In the last month, he and other priests at St. Patrick's have written letter after letter on behalf of parishioners detained by ICE. He doesn't know how effective they are, but he keeps writing.
'When we trust in God, our true citizenship is in heaven,' he said. 'It's a matter of accepting God's plan, which means being here, staying calm, not having fear.'
But sometimes even that faith is not enough. 'When you see a family member being detained,' he acknowledged, 'it's another thing.'
As Teodora Garcia entered St. Patrick Catholic Church for a Spanish-language Mass, in Lowell, she was embraced by Fr. Benito Moreno.
Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
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DAY FIVE:
'My country now'
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In Worcester recently, Gregory Hevey was driving to the grocery store when he saw what he believes was an ICE arrest on Eureka Street. He slowed down to watch and listen. There were a lot of police. A crowd gathered. He didn't linger long.
Worcester was the site of one of the state's most
To Hevey, even these harsh events are necessary reality, though he worries that deporting migrant workers will lead to even more expensive groceries.
Mostly, though, he believes Trump's approach to cracking down on undocumented immigrants is 'absolutely correct.'
'Get the illegals out. Get 'em out. Get 'em off the system, period at the end,' he said. 'This is a beautiful thing.'
Others, like Ed, who lives in Ludlow and supports Trump, have begun to wonder about the president's methods, even as they agree widespread deportations are necessary. Ed,
who works in construction and declined to give his last name because of the political sensitivity of the issue, knows several guys who were picked up by ICE. The men lack legal status, he knows, but they are not the dangerous criminals he expected the government to be targeting. These are good guys, he said, hard workers with families who have been in the country a long time.
Ed knows a lot of guys like that who are targets because of their profession. It's made him wonder whether ICE has been too aggressive, or hasn't done its research.
'I don't want everybody to be deported by any means,' Ed said. 'The bad people, they gotta go.'
'As long as you're a good human being, that's all I care about,' he added.
Dong Nguyen has a criminal record, it's true. But he considers himself redeemed.
He
paced back and forth in his unit at the ICE detention facility in Plymouth. Would today be the day? He had been here for a month, the threat of being sent back to Vietnam after more than four decades in the US hanging over his head. But a judge had
just
ordered his release and he was waiting for it, anxious to see his family.
The day dragged on. He didn't do pushups in his cell. He didn't play chess in the small outdoor area. He just walked.
Dong Nguyen posed for a portrait outside of the Vietnamese American Community Center in Boston.
Brett Phelps for The Boston Globe
Nguyen, 63, had been locked up before, first by the Viet Cong when he tried to escape Vietnam by boat in 1979. Later, after establishing a life in Boston as a legal permanent resident, he spent three years in an immigration detention facility in Louisiana, when a judge ordered his removal following several drug-related convictions.
But because there was no repatriation agreement with Vietnam, Nguyen was released, and has been checking in with ICE ever since. He has three children and four grandchildren. Has been sober for a decade. Holds a steady job installing hardwood floors.
On April 30, everything changed when immigration agents strapped a monitor around his ankle and told him to get a Vietnamese passport. What could he do? He was overwhelmed with despair.
'My whole life is in the US,' he said. 'This is my country now.'
On May 21, he was ordered to check in at the ICE field office in Burlington, where agents put him into a cell with 30 other men, he said, and they slept on the floor 'like packed sardines.' Two days later, he was driven to Plymouth.
Finally, at 6 p.m. on his 33rd day in detention, he packed up his belongings; a federal district judge had ordered his release after his lawyer argued he had been unlawfully detained. They shackled his ankles and wrists, and put him in a van back to Burlington. An organizer from the nonprofit Asian American Resource Workshop picked him up and drove him to reunite with his family in Dorchester.
'A person with freedom can let their emotions swell up,' he said. 'A bird that can all of a sudden fly again and sing again just feels so free.'
Video by Randy Vazquez/Globe Staff
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DAY SIX:
Justice?
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For many,
On Monday, as the legal system whirred back to life, a family of three from Angola sat quietly in one corner of Courtroom 17 of the Chelmsford Immigration Court. A Venezuelan family tried to keep their 2-month old entertained. A young boy flipped through a picture book restlessly; adults scrolled on their phones. Soon Judge George Pappas would decide their futures. There was little to do but wait.
A woman who said she is from the Dominican Republic and lives in Lowell, listened carefully as the judge explained through a translator that she needed to submit an asylum application if she wanted a chance to stay in the United States.
There's no cost to file, Pappas explained. So there's no excuse for not filing.
The instructions alone were a dozen pages, the application itself another dozen.
Find a translator to help you fill out the forms, the judge said, or better, yet a lawyer. If you can afford it.
Next up was a man
from Colombia, who'd had help with his paperwork.
But the documents were still missing two signatures, Pappas explained, and had been mailed to the wrong place. So, in fact, his application hadn't been submitted at all. The man walked away, defeated. He had 30 days to fix the errors and resubmit, or risk deportation.
A woman from Venezuela, was filing for asylum for the third time. She used her phone to translate the legal terms into Spanish, piecing information together from strangers online and public tutorials.
Pappas told her she was still missing a form.
She had to try again.
Rumors of ICE arrests have been swirling recently in Mattapan Square, sparking fears for the Haitian community and limiting foot traffic into businesses. Yvens Jean-Baptiste, store manager at Frugal Furniture, has seen it firsthand: He said he recently watched a fleet of SUVs driven by men in bulletproof vests and backward baseball caps. Jean-Baptiste has a green card, but the current environment still frightens him. He doesn't plan to travel until Trump's term is over. 'I don't want to take a chance,' he said.
Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Court dockets are peppered with what are called 'collateral arrests.' Any immigrant here without authorization encountered during an ICE operation is now
Attorney Kelly Zimmerhanzel's client is one, a Central American man picked up in his driveway when immigration agents were going after someone else. He was now in Texas, a world away from his wife and young child.
Zimmerhanzel, in a virtual hearing from her downtown office, told the judge her client never should have been arrested. He had a valid work permit, no criminal record, and deep ties to his community here. She was able to secure the minimum bond for his release: $1,500.
The man she was representing never appeared. Other defendants popped up on the
screen in gray prison scrubs: A Chelsea High School student who stared blankly ahead. A student at Massachusetts Bay Community College who was picked up while working as a roofer — his attorney said authorities used a drone to identify 'Hispanic-looking' workers at the job site.
Throughout a morning's worth of cases, only one immigrant appearing before the judge had previously faced criminal charges.
'This is unprecedented,' said Zimmerhanzel's colleague, Matt Cameron.
Zimmerhanzel's client still faces removal proceedings. But for now, he could go home. Zimmerhanzel ducked into a private room to call the man's wife and give her the good news. (The man's lawyer later told the Globe that more than a week after the judge's ruling, the man had not yet been returned to Massachusetts.)
Meanwhile, in Mattapan Square, whose surrounding neighborhood is home to a large Haitian community, the afternoon grew hot and sticky, and rumors swirled. ICE agents had been spotted recently. People waiting at a bus stop had fled into a market, then run back out, said co-owner Mariame Kone.
ICE is around the corner
. True or not, the possibility was frightening enough.
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DAY SEVEN:
A new normal
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'É o papai, é o papai!'
Frilei Brás's call from Brazil interrupted playtime. Four-year-old Rafael was eating a messy ice cream cone as his five siblings played with Legos and petted their parakeets, Sunny and Blue.
'Can I talk to dad?' begged 9-year-old Sarah. 'Where are you?'
Rafael Brás, 4, lay in the grass as his siblings played soccer together in the family's front yard in Stoughton.
Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
Gabriel, 6, put the phone down so that he could draw as he talked to his father, Frilei Brás, who called in on FaceTime from Brazil in Stoughton.
Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
Days after self-deporting, he was now thousands of miles away, in Central de Minas, the tiny town where he grew up. Sarah asked about the relatives there she has never met. 'Is your mom there, too? When are you seeing your sister?'
She blew kisses, then handed off the phone to go play. Brás asked God to bless 1-year-old Pedro: 'Oi filho. Deus te abençoe.'
Miguel, 11, told his dad he was drawing Spider-Man. Gabriel, 6, drew with a marker as they talked. Pedro accidentally hung up the call. Eventually, the kids grew tired of talking. The boys brought a soccer ball outside.
Since Brás left, these video chats have become a staple in the family's routine. He reaches out several times a day, long calls to talk and pray and watch the children play.
The little ones don't understand how far away their father is now. But the older ones get it. In his absence, they have stepped up to help.
Miguel comforted little Pedro, kissing his fingers after they were stepped on while playing. Clara, the eldest at 19, tried to shepherd her siblings toward bedtime.
Their mother is showing signs of strain. Her face twitches involuntarily, a symptom of her Huntington's Disease. The days feel longer without her husband there to help.
One week without him. She took a deep breath.
Clara Brás, 19, held her 1-year-old brother, Pedro, as they looked out the window together at their siblings playing in the front yard in Stoughton.
Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
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CREDITS
Reported and written by:
Sean Cotter, Erin Douglas, Camilo Fonseca, John Hilliard, Esmy Jimenez, Katie Johnston, Danny McDonald, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Emma Platoff, Maria Probert, Marcela Rodrigues, Chris Serres
Additional writing and editing:
Emma Platoff and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio.
Photographers:
Jessica Rinaldi, Pat Greenhouse, Erin Clark, Suzanne Kreiter, Brett Phelps
Project manager:
Milton J. Valencia
Editors:
Lisa Wangsness, Anica Butler, Francis Storrs
Photo editors:
Kevin Martin, Bill Greene
Visuals editor:
Tim Rasmussen
Video producer:
Randy Vazquez
Video editors:
Anush Elbakyan, Julianne Varacchi
Data and graphics:
Yoohyun Jung
Design and production:
Ryan Huddle, Christina Prignano
Audience:
Lauren Booker, Cecilia Mazanec, Adria Watson
Audience editor:
Heather Ciras
Copy editor:
Mary Creane
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