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Baker goes silent on foreign-trained docs

IN EARLY APRIL, amid the first COVID-19 surge and an emerging shortage of health care workers, Gov. Charlie Baker signed an executive order allowing foreign-trained medical doctors to gain full licensure here in Massachusetts. Read more from Commonwealth Magazine.

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition

MIRA Thanks President Biden for Making Immigration Reform a Day One Priority

BOSTON – MIRA is expressing gratitude to President Joe Biden today for making the wellbeing of immigrants and refugees a day one priority. Today, President Biden will reverse President Trump’s plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census reapportionment count, preserve and fortify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), reverse President Trump’s travel … Continued

Biden’s great immigration undoing

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Massachusetts immigrants could be impacted by President Biden’s immigration overhaul, which includes a massive bill sent to Congress on Wednesday that was accompanied by a series of executive orders. Read more from Commonwealth Magazine.

Local organizations, Mayor’s office, respond to restoration of DACA

On December 4, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the United States District Court in Brooklyn, New York ordered the Trump administration to restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy to its original state during the Obama administration. Read more from Sampan Newspaper