The coordinated sweep comes as ICE has vowed a “Second Surge” in Massachusetts as the Trump administration intensifies its crackdown on illegal immigration.

Colleagues and academics also testified on Kseniia Petrova's behalf, saying she is doing valuable research to advance cures for cancer.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it has the 20-year-old student in custody and has placed him in “expedited removal proceedings.”

In expedited removal, an immigration officer, rather than a judge, gives the deportation order. In an executive order issued in January, President Donald Trump called for officers to use the process on anyone who has been in the U.S. for less than two years.

A bail hearing is scheduled Wednesday for Kseniia Petrova, the 30-year-old Harvard Medical School researcher from Russia detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since February.

The mother facing deportation arrived 17 years ago from Guatemala, and now has three U.S.-born children, including a 5-year-old with autism, who may be left behind.

WINNFIELD, La. - The 21st century has been tough here in timber country, especially in the small town of Winnfield. Sawmills automated and jobs disappeared. An interstate extension bypassed the area.

The Chapel in the Pines within Hartwick Pines State Park has been a longtime delight for hikers as they weave through the park’s Old Growth Forest. While many trees fell throughout the park and campground − some areas requiring 40 dump trucks to clear debris − the chapel in the woods remained divinely untouched.

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is a temporary anomaly rather than an indication that global warming has reversed,

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for renewing her call to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a recent fundraising email. "I believe that ICE, an agency that was just formed in 2003 during the Patriot Act era,