Arrests last week of two people by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were isolated events, officials say, but they triggered rumors and fear around the Island.
An Edgartown man taken into custody this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers is allegedly wanted for murder in Brazil, Oak Bluffs police said.
Immigrants around the country and around the Island closely followed President Obama’s speech last Thursday when he unveiled a set of actions on immigration.
Within the Island’s Brazilian community of more than 2,000, the panic that followed Thursday morning’s raid by federal immigration officers turned
Ten Brazilian immigrants, said to be in violation of deportation
orders, left the Island yesterday morning in handcuffs - hauled
away by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents aboard
a United States Coast Guard vessel.