Opinion: Show your feelings at a vigil this Saturday

If you are concerned, angry and appalled at these killings and these immigration policies, you are invited to join a vigil on Saturday, July 25, from 4-5 p.m. at the Cross Street Bridge in Middlebury.

Opinion: Local ICE arrest echoes 500 years of history

“If we believed our Latino neighbors were our equals . . . we would see the link between the crimes against humanity witnessed 500 years ago by Bartolomeo de las Casas and the arbitrary seizure and detention of people from within our communities today.”

‘Where are the young people?’ Seniors take the helm of anti-Trump protests

Three local seniors regularly involved in anti-Trump protests had different takes on why different generations are missing from the demonstrations.

ICE operatives take three locals into custody

Three Addison County residents were taken into custody by federal immigration officials on Tuesday.

Opinion: As Lt. Gov., Molly Gray would fight ICE

“Vermont needs a Lt. Governor that will fight for our values, not just in words, but in experience and tangible action.”

Opinion: You don’t need a weatherman

Dylan’s lyrics remind listeners that you don’t need an expert or specialist to reveal the obvious.

Opinion: Citizens Bank must divest from Trump’s cruelty

Sometimes it feels like we are being sprayed daily by a firehose of corruption, lies, incompetence, cruelty, rule-breaking, ignorance and delusion by President Trump and his administration. It is exhausting. It is also important to keep speaking up and re … (read more)

Vermont House stops short of unmasking ICE, dividing House Democrats

Then the Vermont House passed a bill Wednesday that stops short of its original ambition.

Man wanted in ICE raids is a no-show at Middlebury court on unrelated charge

Three people who were taken into custody by federal immigration officials during the raid, and were not named in the federal warrant, have since been released by judges. 

Sing in peaceful resistance: ICE out Vt. Alliance mobilizing in St. Albans on May 8

Vermonters organize a ‘Beautiful Resistance’ and invite others to join them in St. Albans on May 8. ‘We sing because song is an antidote to fear.’

Bill creates policy for school districts should ICE threaten

Winooski’s superintendent told senators in February that the policy was about being prepared for worst-case scenarios.

Opinion: A lifeline for Vermont detainees

A few weeks ago in S. Burlington, federal immigration agents entered a home looking for one person but detained three others who were not named on the warrant. These individuals were released following a judge’s order, but many people detained in Vermont … (read more)

ICE scrutinized: Vt questions if tactics violate U.S. Constitution News

When law enforcement officials broke down the door of a South Burlington home March 11, they were looking for a Mexican man named Deyvi Daniel Corona-Sanchez. He wasn’t there. In fact, he might never have been. What followed that raid, as well as the dete … (read more)

Opinion: Remember that we’re on stolen land

There are no illegal immigrants in stolen territory.

Planning ahead for ICE

Until American citizens prevail with measures to hold ICE agents accountable for any use of excessive force, we all must deal with what the nation now considers a renegade militia that doesn’t care about the harm it does.

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