[Solidarity] ICE out of MA courts

Join Members of the AG Oceanwarriorz at Chelsea district court:

Protect our communities from ICE in Massachusetts courts

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: https://www.lucemass.org/courts

Why does this matter to Extinction Rebellion Boston:

1. Just Transition demand: There must be a just transition that prioritizes the most vulnerable people and establishes indigenous sovereignty and remediation led by and for communities suffering environmental injustice.
2. The intersection of the climate crisis and migration creates a cycle where environmental displacement forced by ecological collapse is met with the securitization of borders and the expansion of for-profit detention systems.