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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago



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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Marco Rubio co-signed a letter in support of the nomination of María Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize. Here’s the letter he and several other GOP lawmakers sent to the Nobel committee last year. Mike Waltz also co-signed the letter. www.rickscott.senate.gov/services/fil...
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The Trump White House denounced the Nobel committee's awarding of the peace prize to Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado. But Rubio is a big supporter and co-signed a letter last August to the committee saying she should win the prize. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
White House Disapproves of Machado’s Nobel, but Rubio Is a Big Supporter
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The Trump White House denounces the Nobel Peace Prize committee for awarding Machado. But an adviser to Machado told The New York Times that her group talks to US agencies about countering Maduro. Here's our recent story on Rubio's support of her and his contacts: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
Top Trump Aides Push for Ousting Maduro From Power in Venezuela
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Marco Rubio co-signed a letter in support of the nomination of María Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize. Here’s the letter he and several other GOP lawmakers sent to the Nobel committee last year. Mike Waltz also co-signed the letter. www.rickscott.senate.gov/services/fil...
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NEW: While Qatar helps with Gaza talks, it's trying to mediate the US-Venezuela conflict. But Trump is cold on diplomacy. He has put 10,000 troops in the Caribbean and is continuing airstrikes on civilian boats. And Rubio pushes to oust Maduro. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Qatar Pushes U.S.-Venezuela Diplomacy as Trump Focuses on Military Action
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NEW: While Qatar helps with Gaza talks, it's trying to mediate the US-Venezuela conflict. But Trump is cold on diplomacy. He has put 10,000 troops in the Caribbean and is continuing airstrikes on civilian boats. And Rubio pushes to oust Maduro. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Qatar Pushes U.S.-Venezuela Diplomacy as Trump Focuses on Military Action
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BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Según funcionarios de EE. UU., la estrategia para tratar de sacar a Nicolás Maduro del poder está liderada por Marco Rubio, secretario de Estado y asesor de Seguridad Nacional. Rubio sostiene que Maduro es un dirigente ilegítimo que impulsa la exportación de drogas a Estados Unidos.
Altos funcionarios de Trump presionan para derrocar a Maduro en Venezuela
El movimiento opositor, cuyas figuras se han reunido con funcionarios estadounidenses, afirma que se está comunicando con Washington sobre los planes para desmantelar la ‘estructura criminal’ de Nicolás Maduro.
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NEW: Sec. Rubio is leading a push to try to oust Maduro. The Pentagon has put 6,500 troops in the region and is drawing up possible operations against crime gangs in Venezuela. Opposition figures say they're talking to the US about plans. Gift link to our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
Top Trump Aides Push for Ousting Maduro From Power in Venezuela
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NEW: Sec. Rubio is leading a push to try to oust Maduro. The Pentagon has put 6,500 troops in the region and is drawing up possible operations against crime gangs in Venezuela. Opposition figures say they're talking to the US about plans. Gift link to our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
Top Trump Aides Push for Ousting Maduro From Power in Venezuela
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James Millward: "One of the things about history in China is that it's very, very often, for thousands of years, been controlled by the state. And I really don't want to see our own history be Tiananmenized the way that the Chinese Communist Party tries to censor its own past."
Citizen historians document Smithsonian exhibits under White House scrutiny
The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. It's a public-private trust that has long operated at arm's length from the White House, but now finds itself...
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Entering the high school choice process with our 8th grader and you know what he’s taking into considering when ranking schools?

Whether he can jump out the window and run home in the event of a school shooting.

That’s fucked up.
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Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
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"In May, Witkoff’s son announced Tahnoon’s investment firms would deposit $2b into World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency start-up founded by the Witkoffs & Trumps.

Weeks later, the WH agreed to allow UAE access to the world’s most advanced & scarce chips, a crucial tool in race to dominate AI."
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
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BBC interview with one of the Korea workers who was shackled and imprisoned. This was nothing but an American own goal. Attempting to blow up the largest economic development project in Georgia history. Billions in investment, thousands of jobs for Americans. youtu.be/fcwJtWU4fn4?...
South Korean detained in US Hyundai factory raid speaks to BBC | BBC News
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Much of the reporting at issue in Trump's lawsuit comes from "Lucky Loser," the remarkable book by @russbuettner.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social. And as it happens, the new paperback edition comes out next week.

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Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year“A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York TimesFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth, revealing how one of the country’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White HouseSoon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life “has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.” Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. As his wealthy father’s chosen successor, Trump received the equivalent today of more than $500 million in family money. He collected a second windfall thanks to Mark Burnett, the revolutionary television producer who made Trump a star. In truth, Trump's empire was underwritten, and at times saved, by the equivalent of more than $1 billion that came his way without any of the business expertise he claimed.Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump's financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. Here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money – what he had, what he lost, and what he has left – and the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire, exposed.
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Join me this Sunday, 9/14, from 2:30-3:30 pm at the public library in Boulder, CO, as I speak on my book on China, #AtTheEdgeOfEmpire. It’s part of the Jaipur Literature Festival. And I’ll be there on a geopolitics panel today, 9/13, from 5-6 pm. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602734...
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NEW: Sec. Marco Rubio casts himself as a top general in Trump's new war in Latin America. He has steered the administration toward military strikes on drug traffickers, without due process. One killed 11 people. And he pushes mass deportations. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...
Rubio Leads Charge in Trump’s New War in Latin America
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NEW: Sec. Marco Rubio casts himself as a top general in Trump's new war in Latin America. He has steered the administration toward military strikes on drug traffickers, without due process. One killed 11 people. And he pushes mass deportations. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...
Rubio Leads Charge in Trump’s New War in Latin America
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UPDATE: Officials in Belgium checked the warehouse with the contraceptives after our story was posted. They say the items are still there — despite the statement about their destruction that a Trump administration spokeswoman sent us Thursday. New story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...