ICE officials have announced an increase in activity in Massachusetts, and it has been seen on the ground already. ICE has been kidnapping people off the streets, harassing bystanders, and terrorizing communities–making everyone less safe.
The LUCE hotline has been doing amazing work to keep people alert and to document what’s happening. Bookmark https://www.lucemass.org/if you haven’t already.
Although we can’t stop everything ICE is doing in Massachusetts, we should not be making their work easier. We need our state legislators to pass legislation to limit the scope of ICE in Massachusetts and to better support our immigrant communities.
That’s why it’s essential for your state legislators to co-sponsor and advocate for critical legislation this session in support of immigrants’ rights:
- Safe Communities Act (H.2580 / S.1681), which would end the voluntary involvement of our public safety officials in civil immigration matters
- Dignity Not Deportations Act (H.1588 / S.1122), which would prohibit sheriffs from voluntarily renting beds to ICE and ban agreements to deputize state and local law enforcement to ICE
- Immigrant Legal Defense Act (H.1954 / S.1127), which would ensure that immigrants navigating our complex immigration courts have legal representation and make permanent a recent budgetary appropriation
EMAIL YOUR LEGISLATORS
In solidarity,
Jonathan Cohn
Policy Director
Progressive Massachusetts
Say Hi at the Mass Dems Convention This Weekend!
If you’ll be in Springfield this Saturday for the Massachusetts Democratic Party Convention, swing by the PM table to say hi! (Don’t see us at first? That’s because we’re all the way in a corner.) We’ll have actions for you to take at the table — and to bring back to your Senate district seating area.
CONVENTION ALERT:In 2017 and 2021, we collaborated with allies like Our Revolution MA to help strengthen the Massachusetts Democratic Party platform. The 2025 platform committee erased the gains from 2017 and 2021 as well as decades-old commitments to policies like single payer health care.
The 2025 platform is a major step back on health care, labor, climate, racial justice, democracy reforms, LGBTQ+ rights, disability rights, immigrants’ rights, and more.
Click here to learn about the effort to fight this rollback.
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Protect Our Care with Corporate Fair Share Town Halls
It’s time to Protect Our Care with Corporate Fair Share. The Trump administration is taking away healthcare from working families and seniors so they can put more money into the pockets of billionaires and big corporations. Here in Massachusetts, we could lose as much as $3.5 billion in federal aid that pays for health care, education, and food access for hundreds of thousands of people. We simply can’t afford the harm that will cause.
That’s why the Raise Up Mass coalition is holding a series of regional Protect Our Care Town Halls across the state to tell our legislators: it’s time to make big corporations pay their fair share in taxes—and stop the cuts. Chances are we’re holding one near you! Can you join us?
Find a Town hall near you
Here’s what’s at stake. Up to 350,000 people in MA could lose their health care and/or food assistance because of cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. More than one million students could be hurt by cuts to PreK-12, colleges, and child care. The money from these cuts to state funding is flowing directly to big corporations and billionaires, while our communities are stuck with the cost of hospital closures, hungry students, and long ER lines.
Help Get Rent Control on the Ballot
Homes for All Massachusetts is launching the process to place rent control on the ballot in 2026 with a kickoff event this Saturday, September 13, at 11 am in Town Field (1565 Dorchester Ave) in Dorchester–the first of many events.
Want to volunteer for the campaign? Sign up here.
