🌱 Patch AM: How did Chelmsford become a key hub in deportation cases?

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• How did Chelmsford become a key hub in deportation cases?

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• Friday: Windy with rain, with a high of 58 and low of 27 degrees.
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📰 News we're reading

• Map: How mass deportation happens in New England (nhpr.org) — Chelmsford is now one of just three New England locations where immigration legal cases are heard, alongside Boston and Hartford, making it a key site in the region’s deportation system. The piece maps how arrests, detention centers, airport transfers, and immigration courts across New England have expanded under the Trump administration, sharply increasing removals and sparking protests and legal challenges.
   

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Sunday December 21

• Pay It Forward Card Shows
  134 N Main St, Leominster
  9:00 am

Saturday December 20

• Cosplay Ugly Sweater Party Revival!!
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Other local events

Saturday December 20

• International Day of Human Solidarity
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Sunday December 21

• Sunday Jazz Jam
  Chelmsford, MA Calendar , 1A North Road , Chelmsford
  1:00 pm

Monday December 22

• Select Board Meeting
  Chelmsford, MA Calendar , 50 Billerica Rd , Chelmsford
  6:00 pm
• Boston Celtics National Anthem Performance
  TD Garden , 100 Legends Way , Boston
  7:30 pm

Tuesday December 23

• Conservation Commission Meeting
  Chelmsford, MA Calendar , 50 Billerica Rd , Chelmsford
  7:00 pm

Wednesday December 24

• Library closed for Christmas Eve
  Chelmsford Public Library , 25 Boston Road , Chelmsford
• Christmas Eve Services at Aldersgate UMC
  Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 242 Boston Rd, Chelmsford, MA, 01824
  4:00 pm
• Christmas Eve Services Offered at Aldersgate UMC
  Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 242 Boston Rd, Chelmsford, MA, 01824
  7:00 pm
• Christmas Eve Service at Aldersgate UMC
  Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 242 Boston Rd, Chelmsford, MA, 01824
  10:00 pm

Thursday December 25

• Christmas
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🗞 Nearby News

Lowell

• MCC Hosts Walk-in Advising Sessions Ahead of Spring 2026 Semester (patch.com)
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• Lowell man now charged with murder in hit-and-run crash (boston.com)

Westford

• The Sun's 2025-26 high school boys hockey preview (lowellsun.com)

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