Since the start of the new presidency, ICE activity has surged across the United States, with close to 50,000 people in ICE detention centers in just the first few months. Here in Massachusetts, a state that has long prided itself on being a beacon of liberty and justice, the threat is especially grave.

Now, more than ever, we need Governor Healey to take action to defend immigrants across the Commonwealth from the escalating state sanctioned violence.

LUCE Immigration Justice Network of Massachusetts is calling on our movement partners, allies, and supporters to join our demands to Governor Healey to end Massachusetts' participation in the prison-to-deportation pipeline by:

• Declaring ICE a rogue federal agency operating outside the law

• Restoring COVID-19 era remote participation in our courthouses

• Supporting state legislation, to terminate every state contract funneling money and resources into the deportation machine, and ban new contracts (including the Dignity Not Deportations Bill - H.1588 & S.1122). This includes terminating the existing 287g contracts with the Department of Corrections, and doing everything in your power to end the Intergovernmental Service Agreement with Plymouth County Correctional Facility

• Creating a reparations fund for families and communities shattered by these kidnappings