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Legislative Actions in Massachusetts: Protecting Massachusetts Communities campaign
TAKE ACTION NOW: tell your MA state legislators to support priority protections!
On January 7th, 2026, ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good while she was protecting her community from ICE. On Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026, Alex Pretti was murdered by DHS agents. His last words were, “Are you okay?” asking a woman he was assisting off the ground after being violently attacked by federal agents. Last year was also the deadliest year for people in ICE detention, with a record number of 32 deaths. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. Expressing outrage is not enough. Our state elected leaders. MUST take action NOW to protect Massachusetts communities from ICE’s violence. ICE is not welcome in our state.
Please use this tool to email your State Representative and State Senator urging them to pass the following guardrails to limit our state’s participation with ICE and protect all Massachusetts communities:
- Ensure our police don’t assist ICE
- Don’t turn police agents into ICE agents
- Fund legal help to fight deportations.
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Call your Senator Everything wrong with the DHS funding bill
The bill increases funding for ICE. If this bill passes, ICE will receive $400 million more for detention and $370 million more for its enforcement budget compared to last year. That’s on top of the $170 billion allocated by Trump’s Big Ugly Bill for his mass deportation machine. ICE is using taxpayer dollars to kill people, invade homes without warrants, and threaten peaceful protestors. The last thing we should be doing is giving them more money to enable their cruelty.
The reforms included in the bill are completely inadequate. The bill allocates funding for body cameras, officer training, and the DHS Inspector General’s Office, but these measures fall far short of what we need to actually protect our communities. We’ve already seen what ICE thugs are willing to do on camera — one filmed the killing of Renee Good on his own cellphone. And there’s no reason to think that giving the Trump regime more money to investigate itself will stop the violence unfolding in our streets.
Actual restrictions on ICE were left out. Congress can end Border Patrol deployments to our cities; restrict ICE and Border Patrol’s dragnet operations, racial profiling, and mass surveillance; and prevent these agencies from stealing funds from other programs to run their mass deportation machine. All of these provisions would have real impact on the ground, but none of them were included in this bill.
MIRA’s Director of Advocacy Gil Calderin speaking at the pre-hearing rally at the State House November 25, 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/zZn27v8upts?feature=oembed
https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-kings-october-18
October 18th, 2025
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“I PLEDGE to show up to protect the rights, safety and dignity of people in my community and resist Trump’s antidemocratic and
immoral agenda consistent with the principles of nonviolence.”
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