Safe communities act s 1305
He said, “This bill trades the safety and security of our citizens and legal residents for the comfort and concealment of criminal illegal immigrants.” “Why is ICE cherry-picked as the one federal law enforcement agency we can’t partner with?” Hodgson asked. While Eldridge cast his bill as a civil rights measure akin to state lawmakers’ stand to support gay marriage a decade ago, Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson described it as a political move that would “put the public at risk.” It would also bar state agencies from providing information for a hypothetical federal program registering people based on race, sexual orientation, religion or other certain other characteristics. Jamie Eldridge, both Democrats, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from deputizing officers as immigration agents. The legislation heard Friday filed by Lawrence Rep. “I think there were some concerns relative to the possible interpretation by some that they felt it could be interpreted as a sanctuary city, town, state bill,” House Speaker Robert DeLeo said this week about Cabral’s bill. Antonio Cabral bill barring the use of Massachusetts inmate labor on a border wall but the branch pulled back from earlier plans to take up another Cabral bill barring state resources from being used for a program that essentially deputizes state and county law enforcement to carry out some ICE responsibilities. Democratic lawmakers have demonstrated both eagerness and hesitancy to push back against the Trump administration. This session that proposal, which has never passed either branch, has the potential to run headlong into President Donald Trump’s plans for stepped-up border enforcement. Progressive lawmakers have for years sought variations of legislation, previously known as the Trust Act and now dubbed Safe Communities Act, severing certain ties between local authorities and the federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws. If adopted, the bill would provide them due process rights but would not hamper coordination on criminal enforcement actions, such as the sweep that netted 34 people allegedly involved in a fentanyl trafficking ring last week, according to the bill’s supporters. Proponents of the legislation (S 1305/H 3269) said it would prevent local authorities from detaining someone solely at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “I sometimes fear that if this act didn’t pass, my parents might get taken away and my sister might not remember them when we grow up,” the boy, whose parents are from Brazil, told the Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security. Eleven-year-old Bryan Rosa of Allston stepped into a pitched debate Friday over immigration enforcement, telling lawmakers he fears for the future of his 3-year-old sister if they do not pass a bill limiting coordination between federal and local authorities.