OTHERS SAY: A constitutional end-run |
The U.S. Constitution is not an a la carte menu. States can't pick and choose the amendments and clauses they'll abide by and those they won't.
But this is Massachusetts, and our Legislature is trying.
Lawmakers are advancing House and Senate versions of the Protect Act, which would prohibit ICE agents from making civil immigration arrests in state courthouses and other areas, ban any new 287(g) agreements in the state, and would even allow illegal immigrants to sue the agents who arrested them for civil rights violations, among other things.
It's almost........