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Concerned community members have witnessed escalating numbers of violent ICE arrests at MA courts alongside the complicity of court officials, staff, security, and local police officers. Many poor, Black, brown and other marginalized ethnic immigrant community members are over-policed and over-surveilled, thereby representing a disproportionate share of individuals summoned to court for criminal proceedings. They are additionally being singled out by federal enforcement actions unrelated to their reasons for being in our state courts. This is one of many ways in which our state’s public institutions are being used as deportation traps. The current federally mandated campaign of terror levied against immigrants, and those racially profiled as “immigrant,” puts us all in danger.

Our state government has a responsibility to do everything in its power to stop its courts from being used as staging grounds for targeting and handing over our community members to federal immigration officers.

Please sign this petition to tell public and elected leaders to keep ICE out of Massachusetts courts.