The governor’s office shared new guidance for how Massachusetts schools and child care centers should handle federal immigration enforcement.
PROTECT Act
Posted inThe Codcast
What Massachusetts’s new ICE law protects, and what it doesn’t
When it comes to rebuking federal immigration actions, states’ options are limited. This week on The Codcast, Jennifer Smith and Iván Espinoza-Madrigal of Lawyers for Civil Rights discussed the PROTECT Act’s new limits on ICE enforcement, the fallout from the Temporary Protected Status termination for Haiti, and the federal lawsuit challenging the state’s in-state tuition law for immigrant students — and what, if anything, Massachusetts can actually do about any of it.
Posted inImmigration
Cheers drown out Healey as she signs immigrant protection bill
The new law (H 5620), known as the PROTECT Act, arose as a top priority for lawmakers and the governor amid intensified immigration law enforcement efforts led by President Donald Trump.
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Immigrant protection accord includes state, local enforcement rules
The compromise bill takes a broader approach to “sensitive locations,” expanding protections against warrantless civil immigration arrests from courthouses to include public schools, child care centers, and health care facilities.
