1. United States
2. Mass.
3. Letter

Please sign legislation to enact the following guardrails to limit participation with ICE and protect our state from ICE’s violence: 1. Ensure our police don't assist ICE: Massachusetts law enforcement must never assist ICE in making civil immigration arrests by taking people into custody when no crime has been committed or ask members of the public about their immigration status. 2. Don't turn police into ICE agents: ICE is pressuring and incentivizing local police departments to sign up for its 287(g) program, which turns street-level officers into ICE agents. They offer bounty-style bonuses for police forces that bring in high rates of targeted residents. Massachusetts should prevent this from happening within our borders. Please support due process for all persons, including the right to a fair hearing, the right to counsel, the right of appeal, and the right to humane treatment and that no person or group should suffer legal discrimination. As you stated during your State of the Commonwealth address, “None of this makes us safer. It shouldn’t be this way, and it needs to stop. Enough is enough.”