Overview
- Governor Maura Healey filed legislation to bar ICE arrests at courthouses, schools, day cares, hospitals and health clinics, and signed an executive order blocking new 287(g) deals and state property use for immigration enforcement.
- Healey backs the Department of Correction’s existing 287(g) agreement, saying DOC should notify ICE when people complete prison sentences.
- The Black and Latino Legislative Caucus proposed a broader bill that would prohibit most immigration-status questions, restrict information-sharing with ICE, and bar creation or renewal of 287(g) agreements.
- Twenty-three Democratic state senators urged Healey and Attorney General Andrea Campbell to add safeguards, including an online portal for complaints about federal agent misconduct, which the governor’s office has not embraced.
- Healey attached her proposal to a time-sensitive spending bill with an April 30 deadline, positioning it for early amendments as federal limits and Republican criticism frame the coming debate.