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When Boston City Councilor Ben Webber asked police during a hearing last week about the frequency and nature of their information sharing of Boston Police databases with ICE officers and other federal officials, he was assured cooperation with the federal agency was limited to criminal investigations on crimes such as human trafficking and firearms trafficking.

Border czar Tom Homan, who had promised to “bring hell” to Boston, said he made the visit to the city last Tuesday. This comes after months of contentious flame-throwing between him and Mayor Michelle Wu, who sat before Congress to defend her city’s support of immigrants.

It didn’t take long for newly installed President Trump to launch his promised war on undocumented immigrants.

A slew of new policies from the Trump administration, focused on immigration, have left immigrant communities scrambling.

Justices of the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled in favor of a Salvadoran immigrant’s petition to review a deportation order, finding in favor of his argument that a Boston Police Department gang database determination falsely identified him as a member of the MS-13 gang.

After years of activism by civil rights groups, the Boston City Council passed an ordinance unanimously last week that increases transparency on police use of surveillance technology.

The Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) — is under fire from city councilors and criminal justice reform advocates who are raising concerns about the Boston Police Department’s surveillance practices and cooperation with federal immigration enforcement officials.