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Immigration office stirs anxiety
By The Boston Globe
Published: 11/15/2007

MASSACHUSETTS - With federal immigration officials on the cusp of relocating their regional headquarters to Burlington, town officials are trying to gain last-minute answers about the project and address the anxiety and even anger that has surfaced as word of the facility has spread.

"It's really turned into quite a mess," said Albert L. Fay Jr., chairman of the Board of Selectmen. "It's a hornet's nest that's stirred up."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the largest investigative branch of the Department of Homeland Security, is putting the finishing touches on a renovated 43,000-square-foot office building off Burlington Mall Road that it will use largely as an administrative office and regional headquarters but also as a temporary holding center for as many as 40 illegal immigrants who are being processed. Read more.

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