BURLINGTON, Vt. — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has agreed to pay a Vermont-based immigrant advocacy organization $74,000 in legal fees to settle a lawsuit seeking information about whether advocates were being targeted by immigration agents because of their political activism. A settlement filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Burlington says the group Migrant Justice, the Vermont Chapter …
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The federal government has agreed not to deport three immigrant activists in Vermont who sued two years ago after they were arrested, saying they were targeted in retaliation for their activism, according to the settlement filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Vermont. As part of the settlement in the lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement …