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"On the surface it looks like we're just giving away free veggies," said Nour El-Naboulsi. "But we are bringing our community members into a solidarity fold."

开云体育's Mary Williams Engisch spoke with Tracy Dolan, director of the State Refugee Office, about how the office is readjusting its approach and priorities ahead of the incoming Trump administration.

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to carry out mass deportations as president.

Trump has repeatedly vowed to deport all of the estimated 11 million people living in the United States illegally. That population includes approximately 1,500 immigrants living and working on Vermont鈥檚 dairy farms, many of whom have resided in the state for more than a decade.

Defensores locales quieren que funcionarios de Vermont protejan a los trabajadores agr铆colas migrantes y a otros inmigrantes de esfuerzos de deportaci贸n masiva de la pr贸xima administraci贸n de Trump.

Burlington Free Press reporter Dan D'Ambrosio shares an update on Bernardino Suchite Canan.

This week marks three years since the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. In that time, one retired Vermont judge has helped over 200 women Afghan judges flee persecution.

The New Farms for New Americans program provides farmland and resources for immigrants and refugees at the Intervale Center in Burlington. The program works to address food insecurity and provide traditional or culturally significant agricultural experiences. Farmers in the program are once again dealing with flood impacts in the area, but the Center made changes last summer to lessen the burden.