Jack Patrick Lewis and Maria Robinson Guest Columnists Massachusetts has been a beacon of compassion, equity, and justice. From marriage equality to health care coverage, environmental policy to reproductive justice, our commonwealth has led the country. But our state is not without its shortcomings, and nowhere is this clearer than in our immigration policy. Most immigration policy is determined at the federal level. Massachusetts’ residents, however, are not immune from our state taxes funding the enforcement of federal immigration law in collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.). While some communities in the commonwealth have sought to protect and defend their immigrant neighbors by passing Welcoming or Trust Act ordinances, others have explicitly sought relationships with I.C.E. in the form of 287(g) agreements. Under such agreements, local law enforcement personnel are deputized to carry out civil immigration enforcement: interrogating detainees, placing them in I.C.E. custody, and beginning deportation proceedings.