In the spirit of May Day’s “No Work, No School, No Shopping,” De-ICE Hanscom held a May Day Potluck Picnic before the standout on May 1. Instead of buying anything that day, we pooled what we already had to create a communal feast. The weather was beautiful and we enjoyed recharging our bodies and spirits with fellow activists.
What’s happening on the border is horrifying—and it’s happening here in Massachusetts too. Every week ICE arrests and detains more of our community members.
The Beyond Bond & Legal Defense Fund (the Bond Fund) raises money for immigration bonds to free people in ICE prisons in Massachusetts and Rhode Island or elsewhere, but are coming to live in MA upon release.
Since 2018, our community has raised over $1.5 million, to bond out hundreds of people, and helped with legal fees for many others. As people continued to be detained across our area and the country, we can—and must—do more.
Bonds can range anywhere from $2,000 to more than $20,000 per person. Our Bond Fund works with families and other bond funds across the country to get our people out of ICE prisons. Together we will continue to free people from immigration prison, reunite families, and keep our communities together in the face of white supremacist and xenophobic state violence.
The Bond Fund also supplements legal fees to help people get out of immigration prison and, from time to time, provides supplemental funds toward legal fees for representation of those freed from immigration prison in their asylum/relief proceedings.
Our Bond Fund envisions a day when we never pay another immigration bond because we have abolished ICE detention, ICE enforcement, prisons and jails and all people can migrate with freedom, safety and dignity.
It was a cold and bleak afternoon, but that didn’t deter about two dozen residents of Lincoln and neighboring towns who stood with protest signs to protest ICE prisoner flights from Hanscom Field on March 6 as they have done every Friday for the past several months.
Dear Mr. Lefebvre,
I am writing to request that you to immediately sever all ties with I CE and cease providing services that support ICE’s deportation flights out of Hanscom Field.
Hanscom Field is the busiest in New England for immigration detainee flights, happening about thrice weekly during most months since President Trump’s second inauguration, according to ICE Flight Monitor.
Gov. Maura Healey’s demands come after ICE expanded its operations at Hanscom Field in Bedford last year.
Operation Milkweed is the ultimate collection of mutual aid and direct support for Massachusetts families impacted by ICE enforcement since 2025. These fundraisers were created by the families themselves and their advocates. Donations are NOT tax-deductible, and we take no cut of any donations. Just as monarch butterflies use milkweed plants to deter predators and create safe conditions during migration, immigrant families need community support when facing ICE enforcement. Be the milkweed.
MIRA is the largest coalition in New England promoting the rights and integration of immigrants and refugees. With offices in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, we advance this mission through education and training, leadership development, institutional organizing, strategic communications, policy analysis and advocacy.
MIRA is a dynamic and multi‐ethnic coalition with 140+ organizational members, including grassroots community organizations; refugee resettlement agencies; providers of social, legal and health services, faith-based organizations and civil and human rights advocates. We organize and empower our members and allies, and together we mobilize immigrant communities to advocate for themselves, and amplify and support their voices. MIRA is a respected leader on immigrant issues at the state and national levels, and an authoritative source of information and policy analysis for policy-makers, advocates, immigrant communities and the media.
Your gift supports vital advocacy, organizing and capacity-building!
LUCE is a coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations who build people power for everyone across Massachusetts.
We move grounded in our principles of justice and equity, with a deep commitment to keeping all of our communities safe through grassroots organizing, information sharing, and mutual aid.
We hold a collective vision for a People’s immigration justice, and refuse to accept that meeting one demand means not meeting another. While we may focus on a particular demand that uplifts a particular community, we refuse to leave anyone behind because of their marginalized identity.
We know that all of us are deserving of collective liberation. We organize in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, immigrants and refugees, people who are targets of criminalization and currently or formerly incarcerated, young people, elders, LGBTQ+ people, and all those who are oppressed and living at the margins due to the broken system of “justice” within the U.S.
Boston Workers Circle (BWC) is a vibrant multi generational community of secular Jews involved together in social and political activities and in providing a Jewish education to the next generation. Within BWC, the Community Care Circle (CCC) focuses on creating and strengthening connections among members and providing personal support as needed.
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