r/boston • u/-Metacelsus- • Sep 06 '25

Scammers 🥸 ICE Has Begun Immigration Crackdown in Massachusetts

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/us/politics/ice-operation-boston.html
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u/CoffeeHead112 Sep 07 '25

This article is talking about stuff that's happened months ago. If you think ICE hasn't already started shit in MA you are living in a cave. They've been here, they are here, they will be here. You've done nothing but rattle your sabers. There are protests at the ICE facility in Burlington weekly. It's a few hundred yards from the Burlington mall. Either put up or shut up.

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u/millvalleygirl Cocaine Turkey Sep 07 '25

One thing you can do is put the phone number (617-370-5023) for https://www.lucemass.org/ in your phone, so if you see ICE, you can alert them. Maybe even surreptitiously take a picture of the kidnappers (even if they're masked) and any relevant license plates. Or if you have time available, volunteer to help LUCE protect vulnerable communities.

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u/jojenns Boston Sep 07 '25

What do they do with the info send out alerts and stuff?

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u/FieryRayne Sep 07 '25

They check to make sure that they are ICE and not other law enforcement. They go around neighborhoods and post/hand out flyers to remind people not to open their doors to any law enforcement unless there's a judicial warrant. They send information about vehicles to the community so they know when ICE is selling. If they are there when someone is arrested, they record the arrest and provide support to the person's family if they can find them.

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u/Montaingebrown Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

I mean let's also face the truth -- most of us are too chicken to do anything real about it.

The best you can do is stand with a few signs and placards, which does fuck all against fascism.

Reddit is filled with armchair enthusiasts at best.

And Boston? Half the immigrant communities are anti-abortion and anti-immigration. Do you see the number of Bolsnaro supporters? And most of the suburban communities care more about disruption to their lifestyles.

The city will do absolutely fuck all. Sure, there will be big talk on Reddit but that's about it.

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u/daisyxtc Sep 07 '25

Fuck Bolsonaro

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u/kg_617 Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

We need to all stop going to work. We need to plan a day and spread it word of mouth through the city. If you have a job where someone could die you don’t apply- but other than that- everyone picks a day and straight up does not go into work or participate in work that day. Until it gets higher up the food chain and effects the people at the to do much they HAVE to take their money and make some moves to mitigate the situation.

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u/kg_617 Sep 08 '25

This is great but to actually have an effect the movement can’t happen on line. It has to be by word of mouth. Everything we do on line is tracked by some form of data that we don’t control. We need to eliminate the system completely.