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Good News – 6/5/25

But first: This week’s installment of “To Immigrants With Love”

A letter from the interactive exhibit that MIRA featured at Immigrants’ Day at the Statehouse.

In the courts:

Immigration Impact: Texas Dream Act Survives—Because Texans Showed Up

Boston Globe: Judge blocks administration from revoking protected status for small subset of Venezuelans 

WGBH: Emergency order blocks ICE from transferring Milford student out of state

In the streets:

NHPR: Manchester protesters urge boycott of Avelo Airlines over deportation flights

Democracy Now: Protesters took to the streets of at least 40 cities nationwide over the weekend calling for a boycott of Avelo Airlines over the company’s contract with ICE to operate deportation flights.

Minnesota Reformer: Hundreds protest ICE, other federal law enforcement action in Minneapolis

ABC News: Protests erupt after Massachusetts high school student detained by ICE

MassLive: In protesting volleyball player’s detainment, Milford students show humanity that ICE is lacking 

Democracy Now: ICE Raids on Restaurants, Farmworkers, Students Spark Community Resistance Across Country

Civil Eats:Farmworker Youth Take to the Streets as Deportations and Displacement Threaten Their Parents

Fox News 5: Outrage and solidarity after ICE raid shakes South Park restaurant

Love and inspiration:

Echezona photo

Depending on who you ask, the meaning of Echezona’s new record Ényì changes. A fan of the Boston artist might immediately recognize the title as an abbreviation of his community-forward mantra, “every neighbor yields impact.” To someone who speaks Igbo, though — like some members of the city’s Nigerian community — it literally translates to “friend.” . . . Read more

SaveArtSpace is proud to present Immigrant Childhood & Our Nostalgia, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in Los Angeles, CA, starting July 4, 2025, curated by Johanna Toruño.

The Immigrant Childhood & Our Nostalgia selected artist is Lyvinx.

Read more about this project here

Ruby Ibarra, a Filipina American rapper from the Bay Area, won this year’s Tiny Desk concert contest. Ibarra’s Contest entry, “Bakunawa,” stunned this year’s panel of judges with its multilingual, intergenerational band and passionate emcee. . . . Between flows, Ibarra introduces herself and makes a statement: “Being human is not illegal. Immigrants have been here, lived here, worked here. And this immigrant is here. From Tacloban City, Philippines, all the way to Washington, D.C., my name is Ruby Ibarra.”

Care is also a form of resistance