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Community Readiness in the Face of ICE Arrests

President Trump campaigned on a threat to deport one million immigrants from this country per year.  We saw an ongoing escalation of the numbers of immigrants targeted in Massachusetts throughout 2025 and continuing into early this year, but still well below deporting one million people.  However, this is beginning to change. Over this past year … Continued

Back to School: What Immigrant Families Should Know

As immigration enforcement increases across the country and protections such as Temporary Protected Status end for some countries, many immigrant families are living with fear and uncertainty. That fear is affecting whether some children make it to school. Recent data show that 17% of parents cited ICE activity near schools as a barrier to attendance. And that … Continued

Huge Court Win! Census Count Extended!

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Last night, Judge Koh, a federal judge for the Northern District of California, ordered the Trump Administration to abandon their last-minute attempts to end the 2020 Census on September 30th. This decision requires the census count to continue until October 31 and bars the Census Bureau from handing over the population report to the White … Continued

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U.S. Appeals Court Allows Trump to End Temporary Protection Status for 4 Countries

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On September 14, 2020, a three-judge panel on the U.S. 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court’s preliminary injunction blocking the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for about 400,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. In Massachusetts, the fate of almost 11,000 TPS holders and their families is on the … Continued

Court Rejects Trump’s Memorandum to Erase Immigrants From the Census

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Yesterday, a three-judge panel in Federal District Court in Manhattan blocked President Trump’s Memo to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used to allocate seats in Congress. The judges found that the Memo violates federal law and everyone living in the U.S. must be counted for apportionment purposes regardless of their legal status. The … Continued

Immigration Q+As with Rep. Joe Kennedy and Sen. Ed Markey

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We want to make sure that voters, who feel passionately about immigrant justice, know where candidates stand on these critical issues. We asked Senator Markey and Congressman Kennedy identical questions about Dreamers, TPS holders, immigration reform, and relief for immigrant families during the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Watch and please share widely! And again, make sure to VOTE, … Continued

Ali Family Fund Gift Doubles MIRA Citizenship Program Capacity

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The Ali Family Fund has awarded $150,000 to MIRA to support free legal assistance with naturalization and outreach to aspiring new Americans, enabling MIRA’s Citizenship Program to double its capacity, for an expected total of 600 applications to be submitted in the next two years. More than half of immigrants in Massachusetts – over 643,000 … Continued

State budget provides urgent relief to families hit hard by COVID-19 crisis

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State budget provides urgent relief to families hit hard by COVID-19 crisis BOSTON – Governor Charlie Baker today signed a supplemental budget for fiscal 2020 that includes $10 million in direct cash assistance for Massachusetts residents struggling to meet even basic needs amid the COVID-19 crisis, and aims to raise $10 million more from private … Continued

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Trump’s Unconstitutional Tactic to Erase Immigrants

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Yesterday, President Trump signed a memorandum to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census count for apportionment purposes, which would almost certainly reduce the number of congressional seats allocated to immigrant-rich states. This would deny political representation to Americans and immigrants alike. In response, the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA), Secretary of the … Continued

A big milestone for the Safe Communities Act

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BOSTON – Today the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security reported out the Safe Communities Act (S.1401 and H.3573) with a recommendation that it “ought to pass.” The bill now goes to the House Ways and Means Committee. The Safe Communities Coalition, a diverse group of immigrant community leaders, civil rights and legal advocates, faith … Continued