Call your State Representative and Senator to support:
The Dignity Not Deportations Act (HD3596/SD1107) would Prohibit Massachusetts entities, including sheriffs, from voluntarily renting beds to ICE. Prohibit Massachusetts entities from donating time and volunteering state resources to ICE by signing contracts – such as 287(g) agreements – that deputize local officials as ICE agents.
Safe Communities Act – (HD3816, SD1670) limits police collaboration with federal immigration agents and ensures due process protections
The Location Shield Act (HD2965/SD501) would ban the sale and trade of cellphone location data, thereby protecting our most sensitive personal information from the prying eyes of hostile state prosecutors, vigilantes, and extremists.
Immigrant Legal Defense Act (HD.4072, SD.2057), a new bill just introduced by Sen. Adam Gomez that creates a funded program for legal defense of immigrants facing deportation proceedings.
Republicans in the US House voted to advance a budget outline that entails steep cuts to Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and other essential programs in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires and large corporations.
Their priorities are clear. And so should ours in Massachusetts.
Did you know that Massachusetts taxes a smaller share of offshored corporate income than New Hampshire? An Act Combating Offshore Tax Avoidance (HD.3390/SD.1684) would fix that, bringing us in line with the federal government and other states and raising hundreds of millions of dollars in new annual revenues.
MA needs to combat offshore tax dodging and make the world’s most profitable mega-corporations pay their fair share in state taxes, instead of cutting public services like healthcare and education that we all rely upon.
The federal budget fight isn’t over. Every Democrat present voted NO yesterday (that includes MA’s 9-member delegation), and there is still time to block harmful cuts. But MA needs to ensure that, regardless of what Congressional Republicans do and regardless of Elon Musk’s illegal federal funding freezes, we are not cutting essential services. We need to do more to meet the needs of all, not less.
Unfortunately, Governor Healey’s proposed budget would halve the number of mental health case workers, limiting access to essential care. Thankfully, she put a pause on her plans to close two of the state’s mental health hospitals, but more funding will be needed.
And we know how to raise such funds. It’s not by giving tax cuts to rich people and large corporations as our Legislature did two years ago. It’s by ensuring that large corporations are paying their fair share.
That’s why we’re supporting Raise Up Mass’s Corporate Fair Share campaign to ensure that billionaire global corporations like Apple, Google, and Walmart pay their fair share and can’t get away with tax-dodging antics.
Please email your legislator in support of this important legislation.
Email Your State Legislators here
Jonathan Cohn
Policy Director
Progressive Massachusetts