Immigration enforcement in Massachusetts has intensified in recent months, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detaining nearly 1,500 individuals statewide in May alone. Boston.com readers were both critical of and applauded the efforts by federal authorities to crackdown on undocumented immigration in Massachusetts, according to a recent poll.

Of those detained statewide, approximately 790 individuals had allegedly committed crimes or violated immigration laws, ICE said. The detainments were a part of a campaign by federal immigration authorities called “Operation Patriot,” part of the Trump administration’s focus on alleged criminal offenders.

Demonstrators and Milford High School students react as they learn that 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva had been ordered re

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