“If you saw a kidnapping happening in daylight, and you have no idea who it was, what happened, what agency, everybody’s living in fear and panic,” one organizer said. “We just believe that that’s not any way for anybody to live, but at least people deserve to know what’s happening.”
As federal immigration agents have swarmed the Boston area, a coalition of community organizers aim to keep neighbors informed about the hard-to-track federal agencies with just a phone call.
“We are seeing this formation as an organization of people that are committed to the idea that no one gets left behind, and that we’re all moving together,” said Jaya Savita, the director of the Asian Pacific Islanders Civic Action Network. The group is one of more than a dozen groups in the state working with the LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts.
LUCE, which comprises multiple grassroots organizations, operates a hotline to report and verify sightings of immigration agents in the state…