Four people, including Brandeis professor and local minister, arrested outside Burlington ICE facility

"Four people, including a minister and a local professor, were arrested Tuesday as they attempted to deliver "care packages" to detainees at the ICE facility in Burlington. The group, which also included another minister who documented the incident on social media, was protesting both the specific detainment of immigrants at the Burlington facility and the larger mass deportation effort being undertaken by the Trump administration."

"Fred Small, Eric Segal, Roger Rosen, and Sabine Von Mering were charged with disturbing the peace and trespassing, according to Burlington Police Chief Thomas Browne. They were arraigned in Woburn District Court Tuesday afternoon. Small is a minister for climate justice at Arlington Street Church in Boston. Von Mering is the director of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University."

"The facility, which is a regional field office for ICE agents operating throughout much of New England, is not a detainment center. But with ICE arrests spiking this year, detainees have increasingly been held overnight there before being moved to other ICE facilities. Advocates and people who have been detained inside the building have repeatedly sounded the alarm this year about the conditions inside."

Four people were arrested Tuesday while attempting to deliver care packages to detainees at the ICE facility in Burlington. The arrested were Fred Small, Eric Segal, Roger Rosen, and Sabine Von Mering, charged with disturbing the peace and trespassing and arraigned in Woburn District Court. Small serves as a minister for climate justice in Boston; Von Mering directs the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University. The Burlington office is a regional ICE field office and not a detainment center, but has held detainees overnight amid spikes in arrests. Advocates report concerning conditions; federal officials assert adequacy and timely transfers. The arrests were recorded on social media by Rev. Sarah Lusche.

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