<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 2;" id="isPasted">COPENHAGEN: Criticised by the US for having neglected the defence of Greenland, Denmark&rsquo;s defence minister said Wednesday that it would &ldquo;strengthen&rdquo; its military presence in the Arctic territory and was in dialogue with allies in NATO.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 2;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 2;">&ldquo;We will continue to strengthen our military presence in Greenland, but we will also have an even greater focus within NATO on more exercises and an increased NATO presence in the Arctic,&rdquo; Troels Lund Poulsen wrote in a statement to AFP, hours before a meeting between Greenlandic, Danish and US officials at the White House on the future of the autonomous Danish territory.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 2;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 2;">Lund Poulsen added that Denmark &ldquo;has an ongoing dialogue with its allies about new and increased activities in 2026.&rdquo;<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 2;"> France to open consulate in Greenland in February&nbsp;France will open a consulate in Greenland on Feb. 6, the foreign minister said Wednesday, calling the move a &ldquo;political signal&rdquo; over the strategic Danish territory, which US President Donald Trump has vowed to seize. The comments came on the day Denmark&rsquo;s top diplomat is to meet senior US officials at the White House for talks over the future of the vast, mineral-rich Arctic island. Since returning to office nearly a year ago, Trump has repeatedly mused about taking over Greenland from longtime ally and European Union member Denmark. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told French RTL broadcaster that the decision to open the consulate was taken last summer, when President Emmanuel Macron visited Greenland in a show of support. &ldquo;For my part, I went there at the end of August to plan the consulate, which will open on Feb. 6,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a political signal that&rsquo;s associated with a desire to be more present in Greenland, including in the scientific field.&rdquo; &ldquo;Greenland does not want to be owned, governed or integrated into the United States. Greenland has made the choice of Denmark, NATO and the (European) Union,&rdquo; he said. Greenland&rsquo;s leader has said the island would choose to remain an autonomous territory of Denmark over the United States. Trump has said the United States needs Greenland due to the threat of a takeover by Russia or China. The two rival powers have both stepped up activity in the Arctic, where ice is melting due to climate change, but neither claims Greenland, where the United States has long had a military base.

Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen (R) and Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen hold a doorstep after a meeting with the Parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee at Christiansborg in Copenhagen, Denmark, on January 13, 2026.

Europe

France is opening a consulate in Greenland in February, calling the move a 'political signal' over the strategic Danish territory, which US President Donald Trump has vowed to seize.

Denmark to boost military presence on Greenland

International reactions have been pouring in following Hamas&rsquo;s positive response on Friday to US President Donald Trump&rsquo;s plan to free Israeli hostages in Gaza and end the nearly two-year conflict. Here are some of the main reactions from around the world: From the US, &ldquo;Hamas must move quickly, or else all bets will be off. I will not tolerate delay,&rdquo; Trump said on Saturday, on his Truth Social page.&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s get this done, FAST.&rdquo; Trump on Friday had expressed appreciation that &ldquo;Israel has temporarily stopped the bombing&rdquo; &mdash; but Israel said on Saturday it was continuing with its military offensive in Gaza. Israel also took a stance. &ldquo;In light of Hamas&rsquo;s response, Israel is preparing for the immediate implementation of the first stage of the Trump plan for the release of all the hostages,&rdquo; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&rsquo;s office said. &ldquo;We will continue to work in full cooperation with the President and his team to end the war in accordance with the principles set out by Israel, which align with President Trump&rsquo;s vision,&rdquo; the statement added. QatarQatar welcomed &ldquo;the announcement by Hamas of its agreement to President Trump&rsquo;s plan,&rdquo; said foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari, also expressing support for Trump&rsquo;s call for an immediate ceasefire. Egypt said it hoped &ldquo;this positive development will lead all parties to rise to the level of responsibility by committing to implementing President Trump&rsquo;s plan on the ground and end the war.&rdquo; United NationsUN Secretary-General Ant&oacute;nio Guterres &ldquo;welcomes&rdquo; Hamas&rsquo;s response and &ldquo;urges all parties to seize the opportunity to bring the tragic conflict in Gaza to an end,&rdquo; spokesman St&eacute;phane Dujarric said. UN rights chief Volker T&uuml;rk said he hoped the plan would &ldquo;pave the way for a permanent cessation of hostilities... in line with international human rights and humanitarian laws.&rdquo; It was, he said, a &ldquo;vital opportunity for all parties and influential states to pursue in good faith and stop &mdash; once and for all &mdash; the carnage and the suffering in Gaza, to flood the strip with humanitarian aid, and to ensure the release of the hostages and numerous detained Palestinians.&rdquo; The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, added: &ldquo;In two years, we have never been closer to securing peace than now. We cannot miss this opportunity. Too many lives have been lost and shattered,&rdquo; he wrote on X. Europe &ldquo;The release of all hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza are within reach!&rdquo; French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X, joining a chorus of hopeful European reactions to Hamas&rsquo;s response. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the plan represented &ldquo;the best chance for peace&rdquo; in the conflict and that Germany &ldquo;fully supports&rdquo; Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;call upon both sides.&rdquo; Britain&rsquo;s Keir Starmer called Hamas&rsquo;s acceptance &ldquo;a significant step forward&rdquo; and urged all sides &ldquo;to implement the agreement without delay.&rdquo; TurkeyTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he believed Hamas was showing, &ldquo;as it has done many times before, that it is ready for peace.&rdquo; The foreign ministry said the Palestinian group&rsquo;s response &ldquo;provides an opportunity for the immediate establishment of a ceasefire in Gaza.&rdquo; JordanJordan&rsquo;s foreign ministry welcomed Hamas&rsquo;s response. It &ldquo;stressed the need to immediately halt the Israeli aggression on Gaza, open the border crossings to allow the immediate, adequate, and sustainable delivery of humanitarian aid to all parts of the strip, and launch a genuine effort to achieve a just peace.&rdquo; Lebanon&rsquo;s HezbollahThe head of the Hamas ally in Lebanon, Naim Qassam, said Washington&rsquo;s Gaza ceasefire plan was &ldquo;full of dangers&rdquo; and accused Israel of using it to achieve what it &ldquo;failed&rdquo; to do during the war. &ldquo;It is Israel&rsquo;s project, which it seeks to achieve through politics after failing to achieve it through military action, aggression, genocide, and famine,&rdquo; he added.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Middle East

International reactions pour in following Hamas’s positive response to US President Donald Trump’s plan to free Israeli hostages in Gaza and end the nearly two-year conflict.

Gaza peace plan: Key reactions to Hamas's response

<span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KABUL: An Afghan government defence official said Sunday that a deal over Bagram air base was &quot;not possible&quot;, after US President Donald Trump said he wanted the former US base back. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bagram, the largest air base in Afghanistan, located north of the capital Kabul, was the centre of US operations in their 20-year war against the Taliban. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trump threatened unspecified punishment against Afghanistan if it was not returned &mdash; four years after the US troops abandoned it. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;If Afghanistan doesn&#39;t give Bagram Airbase back to those that built it, the United States of America, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!!&quot; the 79-year-old leader wrote on his Truth Social platform. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Sunday, Fasihuddin Fitrat, chief of staff of Afghanistan&#39;s Ministry of Defence, said &quot;some people&quot; want to take back the base through a &quot;political deal&quot;. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;Recently, some people have said that they have entered negotiations with Afghanistan for taking back Bagram air base,&quot; he said in comments broadcast by local media. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;A deal over even an inch of Afghanistan&#39;s soil is not possible. We don&#39;t need it.&quot; <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later, in an official statement, the Afghan government said that &quot;Afghanistan&#39;s independence and territorial integrity are of the utmost importance.&quot; <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trump has repeatedly criticized the loss of the base, noting its proximity to China. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But Thursday, on a state visit to Britain, was the first time he publicly sought control of the air base. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The US and the NATO troops chaotically pulled out of Bagram in July 2021, under Joe Biden&#39;s presidency, but as part of a 2020 Trump-brokered deal with Taliban insurgents. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The loss of crucial air power saw the Afghan military collapse just weeks later, and the Taliban regained power. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reporters asked Trump at the White House if he was considering sending US troops to retake Bagram. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;We won&#39;t talk about that, but we&#39;re talking now to Afghanistan, and we want it back and we want it back soon, right away. And if they don&#39;t do it, you&#39;re going to find out what I&#39;m going to do,&quot; he said. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A massive, sprawling facility, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others have repeatedly raised allegations of systematic human rights abuses by US forces at Bagram, especially on detainees in Washington&#39;s murky &quot;War on Terror&quot;. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The original airfield was built with assistance from what was then the Soviet Union in the early 1950s, expanded with US help during the Cold War, and significantly developed further by Moscow during the decade-long Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the height of US control around 2010, it had grown to the size of a small town, with supermarkets and shops including outlets such as Dairy Queen and Burger King. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was visited by several US presidents, including Barack Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2019.

Asia

Trump says he wants it back right away, and everyone will soon find out what it will do in case of refusal.

US deal on Bagram base 'not possible': Afghan Taliban  	

<span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ISLAMABAD: Immigrants in Metro Boston are being detained at workplaces, courthouses and store parking lots as President Donald Trump intensifies immigration enforcement targeting so-called sanctuary cities.<span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advocacy groups report an increase in unmarked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles staking out public areas and work vans in immigrant neighborhoods. One man captured a video of three landscapers who were working on the Saugus Town Hall property being arrested after agents smashed their truck window, AP reported.<span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just north of Boston, the city of Everett canceled its annual Hispanic Heritage Month festival after its mayor said it wouldn&#39;t be right to &quot;hold a celebration at a time when community members may not feel safe attending.&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The actions have been praised by public officials like New Hampshire Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte, who signed legislation this year banning sanctuary city policies in her state, vowing not to let New Hampshire &ldquo;go the way of Massachusetts.&quot; ICE this summer began utilizing a New Hampshire airport about an hour from Boston to transport New England detainees. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, others argue that ICE&#39;s presence in Massachusetts is doing more harm than good. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&ldquo;This is really increasing the fear in communities, which is already incredibly high,&rdquo; said Elizabeth Sweet, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trump aims at so-called &lsquo;sanctuaries&rsquo;<span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cities like Boston and Chicago &mdash; where Mayor Brandon Johnson has also condemned the Trump administration&rsquo;s recent immigration crackdown, calling it an example of &ldquo;tyranny&rdquo; &mdash; have become targets for enforcement in recent days. Trump also threatened to potentially deploy the National Guard to Chicago, though he had wavered on a military deployment last week. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The U.S. Department of Justice on Sept. 4 filed a lawsuit against Mayor Michelle Wu, the city of Boston and its police department over its sanctuary city policies, claiming they&rsquo;re interfering with immigration enforcement. In response, Wu accused Trump of &ldquo;attacking cities to hide his administration&rsquo;s failures.&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, ICE has launched an operation called &ldquo;Patriot 2.0&quot; on the heels of a May crackdown where nearly 1,500 immigrants were detained in Massachusetts. Its latest operation came days before a preliminary mayoral election, where incumbent Wu won easily. The mayor has become a frequent target over her defense of the city and its so-called sanctuary policies, which limit cooperation between local police and federal immigration agents. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the Boston surge would focus on &ldquo;the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens&rdquo; living in Massachusetts. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&ldquo;Sanctuary policies like those pushed by Mayor Wu not only attract and harbor criminals but protect them at the peril of law-abiding American citizens,&quot; she said in a press release early last week, which detailed the arrest of seven individuals by ICE, including a 38-year-old man from Guatemala who had previously been arrested on assault-related charges. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The agency did not respond to requests from The Associated Press about the number of immigrants detained since &ldquo;Patriot 2.0&rdquo; began. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Detainees housed in facilities across New England<span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ICE has contracts to detain people at multiple correctional facilities across New England, including county jails as well as the federal prison in Berlin, New Hampshire, and a publicly-owned, privately operated prison in Central Falls, Rhode Island.<figure class="fr-media"><figure class="fr-media"><img src="https://paktv-assets-7d41fab8.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/b3b0bcd4-d2a7-45de-bd13-34c4bf50bf5c-AP25255595024013.jpg" alt="AP25255595024013.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" class="fr-fil fr-dib"><figcaption class="caption-cover-image text-sm text-gray-600 italic">In this photo obtained by the Associated Press, ICE detainees line up to board a flight at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, N.H., on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo)</figcaption></figure></figure><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Volunteers monitoring flights carrying detainees from New Hampshire&rsquo;s Portsmouth International Airport at Pease have documented the transfer of more than 300 individuals since early August, with at least five flights per week transferring people from New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts. All of the detainees have been in shackles, said David Holt, who has been organizing regular protests at Pease. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Protesters gathered at venues like the ICE office in Burlington, where three participants were arrested on trespassing charges. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Families in hiding as more ICE sightings reported<span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luce, the Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts, staffed its hotline with interpreters who speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Mandarin, and Haitian Creole to collect information about ICE sightings. The organization put out a call for volunteers who speak languages like Cape Verdean Kriolu, Nepali and Vietnamese to help manage the influx. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kevin Lam, co-executive director with the Asian American Resource Workshop, a community group that works on immigration and other issues, said they have seen a &ldquo;spike&rdquo; in ICE activity, including five Vietnamese residents from a Boston neighborhood who were detained last week. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He and other advocates said many immigrants have expressed fear about everyday tasks like picking up their kids at school and riding on public transportation. However, he said many are still attending work, with some willing to risk being detained because they are the primary breadwinners for their families. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;Many of them are like, &lsquo;Yeah, it is a risk every day when I step out, but I need to work to be able to provide for my family,&rsquo;&rdquo; he said. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Asylum-seekers and other legal immigrants targeted<span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Republican Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Leah Foley said she is &ldquo;100% supportive&rdquo; of ICE&#39;s latest operation in the state and that her office will not hesitate to prosecute immigrants without legal status who commit crimes. Noncriminals have also been swept up in raids that ICE calls &ldquo;collateral arrests.&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;We stand ready to charge individuals who violate all federal laws, including those who enter our country without authorization after being deported and those who assault federal law enforcement officers or impede or interfere with federal officers doing their jobs,&quot; she said in a statement to the AP. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advocates like Lam pushed back on claims that ICE agents are only targeting criminals, saying that with fewer protections for asylum-seekers and others who are here legally, the strategy seems to be going well beyond &ldquo;bad immigrants&rdquo; with records. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alexandra Peredo Carroll, director of legal Education and advocacy at the Boston-based Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice, said the Trump administration is &quot;trying to fit folks into this narrative of being illegal or having broken the law, when in fact, many of these are individuals who are actually going through the legal process.&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&ldquo;I think you&rsquo;re going to see more and more how families are going to be torn apart, how individuals with no criminal history, with pending forms of relief, pending applications are just going to be rounded up,&rdquo; she said.

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