WHO WILL BE DISAPPEARED NEXT?

An analysis by the Deportation Data Project, which is based at the University of California, Berkley, found that immigration arrests in Massachusetts have so far risen by 336% from the previous year. This means 2,230 confirmed ICE arrests so far through June 10 … “ICE is particularly choosing tactics that stoke fear. They’re in plain clothes, they’re covering their faces, they’re using unmarked vehicles – and using all of these [tactics] stoke fear so that people can never really know whether it’s just some person with a tinted SUV, or if ICE is staking out their house.”

— Alex Degterev / “ICE in Jamaica Plain and How Pols and Residents are Fighting Back” / Jamaica Plain News

Today, more than 700,000 people call Boston home. Approximately 28% of our residents were born in a country other than the United States … our immigrant residents and communities are part of the fabric of Boston. They are our family, neighbors, and friends … A city that is scared is not a city that is safe. A land ruled by fear is not the land of the free.

— Michelle Wu, Boston Mayor / Statement before the US House Oversight committee

What I’m Listening To:

Where the home in the valley meets the damp, dirty prison
And the executioner’s face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten

— Bob Dylan / “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”