De-ICE Hanscom Standout
In-person event Fridays from 1:30 pm – 3 pm at Hanscom rotary
Please sign up to get information and updates about our weekly standouts. We’ll keep you in the loop if we need to reschedule or cancel for weather or other considerations, and apprise you of our goals and progress.
The weekly afternoon standout is on Fridays from 1:30 to 3:00 at the Hanscom Rotary (intersection of Hanscom Dr. and Old Bedford Rd. in Lincoln, MA.) Please park along Old Bedford Road or Hanscom Drive without impeding traffic or blocking bike lanes.
De-ICE Hanscom is a coalition organizing peaceful standouts with the goal of eliminating ICE transport flights from Hanscom Field. ICE is using these flights to swiftly move immigrants out of New England in order to hinder effective legal representation.
Coalition groups include Boston Workers Circle, Concord Indivisible, Greater Assabet Indivisible Network (GAIN), Indivisible Acton Area, Jewish Alliance for Law & Social Action (JALSA), Lexington Alarm, and Maynard Indivisible.
More info available HERE
ALSO; IMPORTANT!
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Updated 1/12, Please Send New Version|
Many of you have written to Massport and Governor Healey using our Stop ICE Flights campaign page. Those messages helped prompt Governor Healey to send two formal letters demanding an end to ICE flights at Hanscom. We have now identified a clear legal pathway to stop the flights. Under 740 CMR 25.03, no commercial passenger aircraft with more than 60 seats may operate at Hanscom. The FAA classifies ICE charter carriers such as GlobalX and Eastern as commercial passenger service, and because this rule dates back to 1980, it is protected from federal preemption. Massport will only act with public pressure. Please send the new letters on our campaign page, even if you have written before. They are making a real difference. To send a letter, follow this LINK |