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  ❤️  Donate Wednesday, March 25, 2026 🌤️   Mostly sunny, with a high near 54.  Good Morning Boston, It's a big Wednesday for bills and budgets. Let's get to it: On Beacon Hill:   House lawmakers are expected to pass a bill today that aims to put new limits on federal immigration enforcement in Massachusetts. As WBUR's Chris Van Buskirk  reports , the so-called PROTECT Act would ban warrantless immigration arrests at courthouses and prohibit local law enforcement from initiating contact with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in certain instances. The backdrop: The bill comes after courthouse immigration arrests tripled in Massachusetts during President Trump’s first nine months in office.  And as WBUR reported in December , that estimate is likely an undercount. What the PROTECT Act would do: Currently, in Massachusetts, ICE agents only need a civil detainer request saying a person does not have legal immigration status in order to make a court...

  ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Sponsored by  The Boston Foundation The Best of  CommonWealth Beacon   OPINION (Illustration via Pixabay by geralt) Massachusetts has an elder care crisis -- and it's about to get a lot worse   March 1, 2026 By  Harry S. Margolis What totally predictable crisis will start in just five years? The doubling of the need for elder care. And Massachusetts is not prepared for it. A dangerous demographic cliff lies just ahead: There’s been a lot of chatter about the vast demographic bulge that we call “baby boomers” passing 65; but the real news is that the oldest baby boomers will begin celebrating their 85th birthdays in 2031. The Census Bureau projects that, nationally, the number of people 85 and over will double from 2030 to 2050. Here in Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute projects that our 85-plus population will expand by about two-thirds – a smaller increase because we’re already one of the older states...