Trump’s new travel ban is a shameful attack on the most vulnerable people in the world.

These folks are drowning, and Trump just ripped a life jacket from them and tied weights around their ankles.

We’ll fight this racist policy in the courts, in Congress, and in community.

Yesterday, while ICE officials smugly touted the arrest of over 1,500 people in Massachusetts over the past month, I convened immigrant families who have been unjustly harmed by Trump’s cruel & unlawful mass deportation agenda.
 
We heard from Kenia from Chelsea, who was driving to a Mother’s Day church service with her husband Daniel when ICE agents in unmarked vehicles ambushed them, broke the passenger side window, forcefully extracted Daniel from the car, & slammed his face on the sidewalk while their three children watched in horror.
 
“We are devastated. No one should live through this,” Kenia said. “He needs to come home.”
 
We also heard from Mercedes, an East Boston resident, whose family is struggling after her husband Jose was arrested at work & detained for two days at an ICE facility in Burlington. Jose was living here legally with Temporary Protected Status but was told by the ICE agents who detained him that “only people born here have rights.”
 
“We are deeply traumatized,” she told us. “My husband and I can’t sleep. I’m afraid to go out. I’m afraid to take my daughter to school. Our 12-year-old daughter who was born in this country has anxiety attacks.”
 
And we heard from Yolanda, a Randolph resident, whose husband Santo was taken through the back exit of a police precinct & handed off to ICE officers, but not before he was mocked by the officers on duty & told to “go meet his new family.” Santo was shipped off to a detention center in Louisiana, where he has struggled to control his diabetes & hypertension, & has reported that the medical staff & officers make fun of him because of his English & have failed to properly treat his conditions.
 
These horrific raids have never been about “safety” or “law & order,” as the Trump Administration claims — they have always been about terrorizing immigrant families, abusing power, & sowing fear in our communities.
 
I was proud to convene this urgent & timely discussion about how we can push back against this harmful agenda, uplift impacted families, & share resources. And I am grateful to our advocates, families, & local partners for joining us.
 
Together, we say: Hands off our immigrant neighbors.

We will NOT stand by while Trump and ICE terrorize our communities and carry out their cruel, unlawful mass deportation agenda.

Today, I convened advocates, impacted families, and local leaders to tell them loud and clear:

Hands off our immigrant neighbors.