Mass. Gov. Healey to Unveil New Statewide Guidance on ICE Interactions
The guidance says schools, clinics and houses of worship may require warrants and block ICE from nonpublic areas without a valid judicial warrant.
- On Thursday, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced new statewide guidance for schools, health care facilities, and places of worship on interactions with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, aiming to protect students and patients from federal enforcement actions.
- This directive stems from Executive Order 650, which Healey signed in January to restrict federal agents from staging operations or conducting warrantless civil arrests in non-public state facilities, while also prohibiting new 287 agreements.
- Organizations should designate primary contacts, require valid judicial warrants for non-public access, and protect confidential information; the state urges staff to "remain calm" and "never attempt to physically interfere" with ICE, instead escalating to administrators or legal counsel.
- Healey stated the guidance ensures residents can access essential services "without fear," a sentiment echoed by Reverend Mariama White-Hammond of the New Roots AME Church, who praised the advisory as supporting "noble care professions."
- Questions regarding the guidance's enforceability against federal agencies persist, particularly as the Department of Justice sued Massachusetts on Wednesday over separate confidential license plate policies, highlighting ongoing federal-state friction.
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Hanford Sentinel
Gov. Healey issues statewide guidance on ‘interacting with ICE agents’
Gov. Maura Healey issued statewide guidance during a Thursday press conference for illegal immigrants and the schools, child care providers, health care facilities and more supporting them on “interacting with ICE agents” as part of an executive order she signed…
Saying ‘people are afraid,’ Healey lays out ICE guidance
Massachusetts is guiding schools and colleges on how to deny federal immigration enforcement access to nonpublic areas, advising health care facilities on how to protect confidential health information, and working with places of worship on ways to interact with officers, as well as posting guidance on state property "to make really clear that ICE is to stay out," Gov. Maura Healey said Thursday.
Gloucester Daily Times
Salem NewsHealey issues new ICE guidance for schools, houses of worship
BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey unveiled new guidance Thursday for schools, daycare facilities, houses of worship and other "sensitive" locations on dealing with ICE agents with the state increasingly being targeted for immigration crackdowns.
Saying 'people are afraid,' Healey lays out ICE guidance
MASSACHUSETTS IS GUIDING schools and colleges on how to deny federal immigration enforcement access to nonpublic areas, advising health care facilities on how protect confidential health information, and working with places of worship on ways to interact with officers, as well as posting public-facing guidance on state property “to make really clear that ICE is to stay out,” Gov. Maura Healey said. The new guidance that stems from an executive o…
How to deal with ICE: Mass. governor issues guidance for hospitals, schools, churches
“I’m taking action and will do whatever I can to keep our little kids safe, to keep their parents safe. And to send a message loud and clear to ICE that they need to stay out of Massachusetts and stay out vulnerable, sensitive spaces.”
Massachusetts issues ICE guidance for schools, hospitals and places of worship
Governor Healey has issued new guidance for schools, health care facilities and places of worship in Massachusetts to ensure that people can access them without fear of ICE agents.
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