DHS and CBP officials confirm @CBP special forces officers are already in #Boston, ready to cooperate with local #ICE.

nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/… According to @ICEgov #Boston press release:

I’m at federal court in #Boston where lawyers are asking for more info about Shahab Dehghani Hossein Abadi’s removal from the U.S. last night.

@CBP denied him entry despite his student visa and removed him despite a federal order from a judge in Boston.

wbur.org/news/2020/01/2… The hearing will hopefully clear up the timeline of events last night.

Lawyers for Abadi tell me the emergency stay was filed by Judge Burroughs around 9:22pm and Abadi was on a plane that departed for France around 10pm.

Reminder: There's a second congressional hearing today on the end (and subsequent reinstatement) of #MedicalDeferredAction.

You can follow along here: oversight.house.gov/legislation/he…

Or, you can follow me for the newsy nuggets. For background, we first reported on the end of the humanitarian policy back in August when Boston-area #immigrants began receiving denial letters from @USCIS.

wbur.org/news/2019/08/2…

#BREAKING: @DHSgov has issued the reinstatement of #MedicalDeferredAction by @USCIS according to an email obtained by WBUR and written by a DHS advisor. Per the email, USCIS is “is resuming its consideration of non-military deferred action requests on a discretionary, case-by-case basis, except as otherwise required by an applicable statute, regulation, or court order.”

#BREAKING: new #publiccharge rule is out from #Trump admin.

SNAP, Medicaid and housing vouchers will now be taken into consideration.

Here’s that graph👇

s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspect… The new rule "redefines the term 'public charge' to mean an alien who receives one or more designated public benefits for more than 12 months in the aggregate within any 36-month period (such that, for instance, receipt of two benefits in one month counts as two months)."