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Every Democratic member of Massachusetts’ House delegation joined nearly 200 congressional Democrats across the country on Friday to demand independent investigations into the fatal shootings of two men by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Texas and Maine, escalating pressure on the agency after its second deadly shooting in less than a week.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and other prominent New England Democrats are celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to strike down President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

Elected leaders and immigration advocates in Massachusetts applauded the Supreme Court's decision to uphold birthright citizenship on Tuesday.

"It's simple: if you're born in America, you're an American," said U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on social media.

"The fight to defend immigrant rights from Trump's cruelty is not over," the Democrat wrote, "but today the Court upheld the law."

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey echoed that sentiment.

The United States Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Mullin v. Doe, which allows the Trump Administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian nationals, was met with dismay by immigrant advocates and members of Cambridge’s Haitian community.

Democrats on Capitol Hill railed against a Supreme Court decision on Thursday that found the Trump administration can strip temporary legal protections from Haitian and Syrian migrants.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that federal judges are barred from reviewing many of the challengers’ claims, opening the door for potential deportations of hundreds of thousands of individuals who hold temporary protected status (TPS).

Construction of Donald Trump’s White House ballroom is projected to cost $600 million, significantly more than the president has previously said, with taxpayers covering more than half that amount, according to a new report from the Washington Post, which cited internal government documents.

Trump has repeatedly said the ballroom under construction on the East Wing of the White House would cost $400 million, up from $200 million he estimated when the project was first announced in July 2025. From the outset, the president has said he will use private donations to cover the costs.

The McAllen family whose detainment by federal immigration enforcement sparked bipartisan outcry over the weekend was released Monday afternoon, according to Texas congressional representatives who were taking action in the case.

The push was a bipartisan one. Democratic U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said on social media four members of the Gámez-Cuéllar family, including 12-year-old Joshua and 14-year-old Caleb, were released from a detention facility in Dilley. Shortly after, Republican U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz said their older brother, 18-year-old Antonio, was also "going home."

The U.S. House is set to vote Thursday on a resolution to limit President Trump's war powers amid the expanding war in the Middle East. Odds of passage seem slim after the Senate rejected a similar measure that would have required congressional approval for further military action in Iran.

Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, the second-highest-ranking Democrat in the House, joins WBUR's Morning Edition ahead of the vote.

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