The Walpole Peace and Justice Group is holding a vigil in Walpole on Thursday, February 2, 2017, from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM to protest the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders on immigration. It’s so important that people continue to speak out. The vigil will be held at the corner of Main and West Streets in the center of Walpole across from the Walpole Cooperative Bank. We will have a six foot banner and other signs.
The Massachusetts Safe Communities Coalition is sponsoring a Boston Rally in Support of the Massachusetts Safe Communities Act at the State House on Wednesday, February 1, 2017, at 12:00 noon. “The Safe Communities Act would protect the civil rights of all state residents by making sure our tax dollars are not used to help the Trump administration deport immigrant families or to create a Muslim registry.” See below for a summary of the Act.
Massachusetts Safe Communities Act Summary – Extracted from the Coalition Fact Sheet
- No state support for Muslim registry. Prohibits access to information in state databases for use in any federal registry program based on national origin, religion or other protected characteristics.
- Ensures Basic Due Process Rights for people detained in state and local facilities for civil immigration violations. Requires informing detainees that they have the right to decline an interview with ICE agents, and to have their own attorney present (at their own expense) if they so choose.
- Ensures that police resources are used to fight crime, not separate families. Ensures that state, local and campus police don’t participate in immigration enforcement activities, including inquiries, investigations, raids, arrests or detentions that are based solely on immigration.
- Prohibits agreements with DHS that deputize local officers as immigration agents, including county officers in Bristol and Plymouth sheriff's departments.
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