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WILL HE STAY OR WILL HE GO? What s in store for House Speaker Robert DeLeo s future? That s what everyone wants to know.
DARTMOUTH Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson attacked as “baseless” and “politically motivated” this week’s report from Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey that accused his officers of using excessive force and violating detainees’ civil rights during a May 1 melee at an immigration detention center in Dartmouth.
“The attorney general’s report goes to incredible lengths to dismiss and discount the truth about what really happened,” Hodgson said during a press conference Wednesday at the Bristol County House of Correction.
Hodgson said Healey’s investigators never interviewed him and left out evidence that he was struck by a chair that a detainee is alleged to have thrown at him during the fracas, which was sparked by detainees refusing to be taken to the jail’s medical wing to be tested for COVID-19.
Florida Immigration Group Pushes for Further TPS Protections
The Family Action Network Movement, a Haitian immigration advocacy group in Miami, believes TPS recipients need permanent protection.
The Department of Homeland Security announced last week that it would extend Temporary Protected Status until Oct. 4, 2021 for beneficiaries from El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan. Although the Family Action Network Movement, a Haitian immigration advocacy group in Miami, celebrated this announcement, Marleine Bastien, Executive Director of FANM, believes that TPS recipients need permanent protection. “FANM will continue to organize our members and fight for those in the Senate to pass The Dream and Promise Act,” she said. DHS said it was extending TPS “to ensure its continued compliance” with several U.S. district court orders. Caribbean National Weekly Network
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The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey today released a scathing report that sharply faults the Bristol County Sheriff s Office for its part in a violent May 1 clash between immigrant detainees at the North Dartmouth ICE detention facility and agents of the law who answer to Sheriff Thomas Hodgson.
The Bristol County Sheriff s Office used excessive force and acted with “deliberate indifference, thereby violating the civil rights of immigrant detainees housed in Unit B of the C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center, Healey s office said.
The AG s 60-page investigatory report describes “institutional failures and poor decisions” by leadership at the sheriff s office that culminated in a “calculated use of force” that “unnecessarily caused or risked harm to everyone involved.