Immigrant justice means ensuring that all immigrants, regardless of status, are treated with dignity, protected by due process and human rights, and able to live without fear of discrimination, detention, or family separation. Communities are stronger, and benefit when everyone can live safely and with opportunity.

Massachusetts is increasingly affected by expanded ICE enforcement, including heightened activity across the state, renewed deportation flights from Hanscom and other regional airports, and the growth of immigration detention nationwide. Reports of overcrowding, inadequate medical care, poor sanitation, limited legal access, and the detention of vulnerable people at the Burlington ICE Field Office underscore the need for stronger congressional oversight.

The Indivisible Mass Coalition has developed a toolkit for calling on Members of Congress to coordinate oversight visits to the Burlington facility, thoroughly inspect conditions, and publicly report their findings. We want to ensure that oversight is persistent, credible, and difficult to evade, rather than limited to isolated or tightly managed visits, and that the public is made aware of the findings of oversight visits.