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Maura Healey: “Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state.”

Featuring: Maura Healey, Democratic | Governor of Massachusetts

Governor Healey Announces Guidance on Interacting With ICE

Published May 28, 2026 | Video Starts at 30:46

I mean, you know, a quarter of the travelers into Logan Airport are foreign. I mean, this is a. This is a major hit to any state's economy. And Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state. I don't know how many times I need to say this. So, you know, this is a lot of rhetoric, a lot of just posturing and bluster. (30:46–30:49)

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Reiterates that Massachusetts does not have sanctuary state policies.

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“They've done to our economy, the money they've taken out of health care, a trillion cut last summer.”
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“A quarter of the travelers into Logan Airport are foreign.”
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“The DOJ just paid 2 billion off to J6ers.”
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“I filed the strongest legislation in the country to keep ICE out of community spaces and courthouses.”
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“I also signed an executive order to ban ICE on activity on state property and help our communities protect their people.”
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“It lets our schools, colleges, day care centers know how to protect student privacy, how to interact with ICE agents, how to get legal…”
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“It lets our hospitals and health care centers and medical offices know how to protect patients and to protect their confidential health…”
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“And it lets houses of worship establish policies to protect their people, including by making clear public versus non public spaces to…”
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“We're also posting public facing guidance on our state property to make really clear that ICE is to stay out.”
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“ICE officers may not enter, cannot enter non public areas without a valid judicial warrant.”
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“ICE may not make civil immigration arrests in private areas, and ICE may not use state property to stage enforcement operations.”
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“They're still refusing to tell us who they've taken from our state.”
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“I've been demanding this information for months to simply know what residents have been taken from our state.”
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“Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint suing our registry of motor vehicles.”
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“The U.S. Department of Justice is using resources to keep those lawyers who are still at DOJ busy filing specious complaints against states…”
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“They want us to give ICE confidential license plates so they can operate in secret in Massachusetts.”
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“We're not going to help them operate in secret as they take people off our streets without cause.”
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“We're not going to allow them to make our streets and our communities and our neighborhoods and our state less safe.”
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“People are afraid to go to church. People are afraid to worship.”
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“We have reports from our health care centers that people are afraid to go to their health care centers.”
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“They're afraid to go to pediatrician appointments. They're afraid to go to the hospital when they actually have an emergency condition and…”
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“I've talked to many DAs. As a former prosecutor, I understand that it's not a good situation when ICE has scared victims away from…”
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“ICE needs to have a judicial warrant if they're going to be acting around courthouses.”
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“Enrollment numbers are down, as you've covered, as you've reported, because ICE has scared families away.”
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“These are families, many of whom have lawful status, have a parent with lawful status. The little kids are US Citizens.”
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“We're 18 months into a Trump administration that has been about callousness, cruelty, unlawfulness, just complete abdication of the rule of…”
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“This guidance in many ways is just reiterating the laws that already exist in this land.”
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“AGs and governors around the country have had to go to court to stand up for the rule of law and have been successful in our courts.”
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“The Trump administration, and particularly through DHS and ICE, continues to do things that are unconstitutional.”
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“The Protect Act, I'm glad it's working its way through the legislature, and I look forward to reviewing that and signing that.”
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“There's no place for ICE at the World Cup.”
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“I expect them to actually follow the regulations, follow the rules here in Massachusetts.”
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“Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state.”
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“Officials at the highest level of government would issue such statements that... make our airports and travel less safe.”
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“The other part of that statement was that he was going to take Custom and Border Patrol agents out of our airports.”
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“To the extent there are people who've committed crimes, who have done pose a public safety threat to our communities, I've said from the…”
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“The vast majority of people are working hard, are paying taxes, are raising kids, are running businesses, are contributing to our economies…”
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“This is what our US Department of Justice is doing, and sadly, this is what our US Taxpaying dollars are being deployed using.”
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