DID YOU KNOW?

An estimated 70,000 of our neighbors are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement prison detention centers. These prisons have been cited for medical neglect, understaffing and forced labor (KFF). According to ICE, 46 people have died in detention since January and there “has been a 2,450 percent increase in the number of people with no criminal record held in ICE detention on any given day”. (American Immigration Council).

DID YOU KNOW?

Two of the companies operating these prisons, CoreCivic and GEO Group, have received financing from CITIZENS BANK.

DID YOU KNOW?

Citizens Bank deepened their relationship with these prison companies even after 9 of the country’s largest banks withdrew financial support. “Since 2012, Citizens helped CoreCivic and GEO Group access more than two billion in credit.” (De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition )

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To finance a highly visible billboard near Citizen Banks’s headquarters in Providence, RI. Any funds we raise above the cost of the billboard will be used to continue our fight against Citizens Bank’s actions!

Click here to donate to the Rightful Resistance Indivisible group’s billboard Go Fund Me

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.

Help Massachusetts families impacted by ICE enforcement today.

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!

Massachusetts residents are being removed from our state through charter flights from Hanscom Field without access to counsel or family support, violating their due process rights under our State Constitution. Massport has a legal way to stop these flights. Demand that they use it.

Lexington Alarm’s letter campaign makes it easy to send letters electronically or through snail mail. The provided script makes this an easy lift.

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.