In June, Congress passed the S.2 reconciliation bill that provides ICE and Border Patrol with $70 billion in new funding for mass detention and deportation on top of last year’s unprecedented funds. Now Congress is debating whether to give these same agencies an additional $30 billion to carry out the administration's anti-immigrant agenda through the Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations process.

We support Detention Watch Network's demands that Congress:

Provide NO funding for ICE and Border Patrol in Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations.

Redirect taxpayer dollars away from the bloated budgets of ICE and Border Patrol to fund health care and other human needs.

Restrict the use of funds for further ICE detention expansion, including the use of funds to construct or renovate warehouse detention facilities.

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The Massachusetts Senate just released a bill that will impact families, workers and the planet. We are asking you to help make the dream of a renewable, accessible energy future a reality by encouraging your Senator to co-sponsor these key policies. 

Contact your Senator now. 

Our Priorities include: 

-Halting the expansion of the gas system and protecting workers

-Stopping utilities from charging us, their customers for advertising

-Removing subsidies for burning trees to make electricity

-Protections from Data Centers

-And more!

With your action, we can turn these policy goals into concrete action. Thanks to your grassroots activism, we were able to stop a climate bill that would’ve reversed years of progress in November and take steps towards energy affordability in February. Now, we need your help one more time to bring it past the finish line.  Here is the full action guide.

Join us in pushing for clean, affordable energy and send your Senator the Mass Power Forward Priorities today. 

Call to Action from Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless: 

Please take action with us today to help pass the Everyone Needs ID bill to expand access to Mass IDs for people experiencing homelessness. A state-issued ID is often the gateway to housing, employment, healthcare, benefits, and financial stability. For many people experiencing homelessness, obtaining an ID is extremely difficult because they lack the required proof of residency, have lost important documents, and/or are unable to afford the $25 fee.

Learn more and take action here!

Instead of investing in our communities, the Governor and the state of Massachusetts are moving forward with a project to spend $400 Million to build a new women's prison. For over five years, the people of Massachusetts and our elected legislators have overwhelmingly voted "no" on this project - which would expand the reach of policing and ICE in immigrant communities. Suffolk Construction was selected to be the construction manager for the project and the company is currently negotiating their contract with the state.

Join Families for Justice as Healing and BIJAN in demanding that Suffolk Construction withdraw from the contracting process and stop profiting off women's suffering and trauma. Take action by signing the petition, emailing the Suffolk team, and commenting on their Instagram, using the action guide here: bit.ly/SuffolkToolkit

Contact your legislators!

Use our toolkit to contact your legislators and demand POLICY CHANGE. We are still pushing to pass Elder and Medical Parole and the MA Survivors Act. 

Prisoners' Legal Services, Families for Justice as Healing, and 100 others  wrote a letter our leaders urging them to prioritize a package of six critical bills this session. Now we need the help of individuals to ask their legislators to make this a priority.  Please contact your legislators with a copy of the letter via email, phone, or the form below and ask them to express their support to the Committee on Ways and Means as well as House or Senate leadership.  Email your legislators using this link.

Donate here!

BIJAN is reaching out again now because our funds are dangerously depleted due to ICE’s violence in our state, which has impacted unprecedented numbers of people.  Please donate today!

Despite the current administration’s efforts to end immigration bond and keep people in “mandatory detention,” lawyers are fighting back, filing habeas petitions and challenging court rulings . So we are paying more bonds, allowing people to pursue their immigration cases from the community instead of facing deportation. Without your donations, we will soon have to pause paying commissary and bonds. Please donate today, and consider becoming a monthly donor to increase your impact!

Since we are an all-volunteer network, we have no staff to pay, no rent for an office, and no overhead. This means that every dollar of your donation goes directly to help our immigrant friends and neighbors in this moment of trauma and crisis. Thank you for being part of this essential work and for choosing freedom!

Expanding private jet emissions will be devastating to our climate. See below for opportunities to take action!

1. Resolution: We are calling on Unitarian Universalist congregations in MA to adopt a Resolution urging Gov. Healey to stop private jet expansion at Hanscom Field airport or anywhere.  Learn more here! For questions, contact: faith@stopprivatejetexpansion.org  In the meantime, please take action as an individual by signing this petition to the Governor.

2. Petition: Sign this petition to the Governor!