The Riveras and the Right to Move: How Massachusetts Turned Family Life Into a Criminal Act

<![CDATA[America has long prided itself on the notion that we are a free people in a free land. You can pack up your car and move from Boston to Boise, Providence to Phoenix, without filing paperwork with bureaucrats or seeking permission from state overlords. It’s so basic to our national identity that we hardly think of it. Yet in Massachusetts, that right — the right to move freely about the country — has been criminalized in one of the most shocking family court cases in recent history.]]>