What ICE is doing is abhorrent. But here’s why canceling the state contract to house its detainees might not be the right thing to do.
ADVERTISEMENT Sponsored by The Boston Foundation The Best of CommonWealth Beacon OPINION (Image by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay) What ICE is doing is abhorrent. But here’s why canceling the state contract to house its detainees might not be the right thing to do. January 18, 2026 By John Grossman Renee Good – shot three times and killed this month in Minneapolis by a masked Homeland Security agent, who then called her “a fucking bitch” . George Retes , a US citizen and Army combat veteran, arrested by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in California and held for three days, allowed no communication with family or lawyers, and then released – without explanation, charges, or apology. Rümeysa Öztürk – a Tufts graduate student snatched off the street in Somerville by a team of government agents because she had the temerity to write an op-ed in the university news...