Letter to the editor: ICE is an embarrassment to Americans

There have been many cries of alarm about the tactics of ICE and demands for reining it in or even abolishing it. It is important to understand just what this agency is doing to raise these alarms.

A week after Alex Pretti was killed, I joined a dear friend in Minneapolis to offer support as they continued living day-to-day in a besieged city. We also went as witnesses and to carry back home to Vermont what could be scenes from our near future. If I … (read more)

Four Addison County residents were among 11 peaceful protestors arrested for criminal trespass on Monday after refusing to leave the Department of Homeland Security office building in Willison.

Elizabeth Gleich, a native Minnesotan and associate pastor of the Congregational Church of Middlebury, joined fellow clergy to protest in her home state.

Senators in the Judiciary Committee are hashing out a bill that could stop law enforcement officers — including federal agents operating in Vermont — from masking while also weathering a potential lawsuit from the feds.

As the number of recent arrests, detentions and acts of violence by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials climbs across the country, local citizens are joining Americans across the country in growing numbers to push back.

Juan De La Cruz will be allowed to remain in Panton for at least another six months, when another mandated ICE check-in will occur.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities.

A Mexican national who has lived here for two decades and become a taxpayer will report to ICE on Tuesday for a check-in that could result in his deportation.

“Vermont must prepare now for a future with fewer federal dollars, greater economic uncertainty, and higher costs for workers and families.”

Back in the pandemic winter of 2020-2021 Panton’s David Clevenstine was looking to cool off from a case of cabin fever — not the COVID kind, but the variety resulting from being cooped up too long. 

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is advising the public to stay off the ice on Lake Champlain due to unsafe conditions, and to exercise caution on other bodies of water.

VERMONT — In 2013, Vermont became one of the few states in the nation to offer driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. Six years later, it is one of two states to have allowed federal immigration authorities to search its photographic database of dr … (read more)