BOSTON (WWLP) – Governor Maura Healey has written to top U.S. officials, demanding they stop deportation flights out of Hanscom Field Airport in Bedford.
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Governor Healey wrote to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, demanding that they stop ICE from using private aircrafts in Massachusetts to remove detainees.
“Flying these residents out of state and away from their support systems and legal counsel –often within hours of arrest – is intentionally cruel and purposely obstructs the due process and legal representation they are owed,” Healey said in the letter. “This is not the justice we believe in or stand for in Massachusetts or as Americans. This practice must stop.”
Healey stated that a significant majority of these individuals have no criminal convictions or charges. The full letter can be read at mass.gov.
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