The Healey administration is pushing back against pressure from the Department of Justice to allow federal immigration authorities to get confidential and undercover license plates and registrations.
“Massachusetts is not going to allow state resources to be used to help ICE operate in secret while they are violating people’s rights and making us all less safe,” said Jacqueline Manning, spokesperson for Governor Maura Healey.
A letter from Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate to Healey and Attorney General Andrea Campbell on Tuesday said that the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles is refusing to issue such registrations and licenses plates to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and is only issuing them to Homeland Security investigations after they certify vehicles will only be used in criminal investigations…