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Boston City Council backs state immigrant-protection bills and denounces TPS rollbacks
Summary
On March 5 the Boston City Council adopted resolutions endorsing proposed state laws to limit local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and to expand legal defense for immigrants, and separately denounced the federal rollback of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian, Venezuelan and other communities.
The Boston City Council on March 5 voted to endorse state-level immigrant-protection legislation and to condemn recent federal changes to Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
The council adopted a resolution supporting the Safe Communities Act, the Immigrant Legal Defense Act and the Dignity Not Deportations Act. The measure, filed by Councilor Kenneth Weber with Councilor Gabriela Mejia as an original cosponsor, passed in a roll-call vote, 10–2. Councilors Ed Flynn and Michelle Murphy cast the only negative votes.
The Safe Communities Act, as described by supporters in the chamber, is modeled on the city’s earlier Trust Act and would limit cooperation between state or local officials and federal immigration enforcement in certain cases. “That legislation that was passed…was the spearhead for to file the Safe…
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