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Sarah Betancourt
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Reporter, GBH News (Boston, MA)
Boston, Massachusetts
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Biography
Sarah Betancourt is a longtime Latina reporter working in Massachusetts. She's a reporter at WGBH News and also freelances. Her work has been published in The Boston Globe, Commonwealth Magazine, the New York Law Journal, DigBoston, WBUR, NBC News, Law360, NPR’s Latino USA, In These Times, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Gotham Gazette, the Washington Post, National Geographic, and other publications. She is part of the 2018 NPR-ProPublica collaboration that won the IRE Award for Radio/Audio- Large Category for “They Got Hurt at Work, Then They Got Deported." She reported half of the 2023 Online News Association winning series, Trafficking INC.
Breaking news, Criminal Justice , Investigative, Immigration Politics, Health , Labor
London borough councils and national politics
Content
By Sarah Betancourt| GBH News (Boston, MA) Verified Federal immigration enforcement agents detained an undocumented man in New Bedford on Monday, raising questions about the Fourth Amendment being broken during the course of his arrest. Juan Francisco Méndez, 29, was leaving his home street with his wife Marilú when his car was stopped by three people. Men in bulletproof vests ordered them out of the vehicle, but Marilú asked that they wait for their attorney to arrive at the scene. The incident was first reported by the New Bedford Light.
By Sarah Betancourt| GBH News (Boston, MA) Verified A Boston federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal statuses of more than half a million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans later this month. The Trump administration sought to collectively terminate their legal status on April 24.
By Sarah Betancourt| GBH News (Boston, MA) Verified A federal judge in Vermont is considering whether to weigh in on the release or transfer of Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts university graduate student who was detained by immigration enforcement agents in Somerville last month. In a hearing Monday, District of Vermont Judge William K. Sessions III said he’d take the federal government’s and Öztürk’s attorneys’ arguments under advisement.
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GBH News (Boston, MA)