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A Tufts graduate student from Turkey was moved from Massachusetts to Vermont and then Louisiana after being arrested according prosecutors who are challenging a federal judge's authority to review her detention.

Immigration lawyers say while they’re committed to representing their clients, they’re also concerned about what this kind of scrutiny from the Trump administration means to the rule of law.

School officials advised students to carry identification and immigration status documents, for international and domestic travel.

Senators advanced a bill Thursday to study the creation of a statewide Office of New Americans, which would coordinate services for immigrants in Vermont. “Immigrants in Vermont are the fastest-growing working-age demographic � they're vital to our economy and to our future,� said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Martine Larocque Gulick, D-Chittenden County, earlier this week. “But the challenges they face are around licensing and education, language barriers.�

The sheriff's offices in Belknap and Grafton counties signed agreements to join a federal program that deputizes some local officers to carry out immigration enforcement. So have the police departments in Gorham, Ossipee, Colebrook and Pittsburg.

The Vermont Asylum Assistance Project furloughed two legal fellows and closed intake for new cases after an order by the Trump administration cut off a key source of federal funding for the nonprofit.

Tras las medidas de inmigración de Trump en sus primeras semanas en el poder, Mayrena Guerrero de Massachusetts sugiere a las personas buscar espacios de paz y armar un plan.

Following President Trump's immigration crackdown, Mayrena Guerrero has sensed a lot of fear and alarm from her clients. She advises people to plan and carve out ways to have some sense of peace.

At the largest political rally Vermont has seen since President Donald Trump was inaugurated last month, the crowd erupted into spontaneous chants in support of transgender people, immigrants and other groups that have become early targets of the new administration. The protest was part of a nationwide movement called 50501.

Federal immigration enforcement in Vermont is not new. What is, legal experts say, is what they describe as an intensifying rhetoric and “fear-mongering� at the federal level. Groups in Vermont are trying to combat fear with crowd-sourcing more information.