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Speaker 1: The Protecting Massachusetts Community's Coalition rallied at the State House

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Speaker 1: ahead of key hearings on a series of bills to

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Speaker 1: push back against ICE. The bills call for local police

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Speaker 1: departments to not work with ICE, either by assisting in

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Speaker 1: raids or by signing up for a deputization program that

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Speaker 1: would see cops work as agents. They also call for

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Speaker 1: the creation of a legal defense fund to help fight deportations.

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Speaker 1: Laura Rotolo is with the ACLU and says these are

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Speaker 1: unprecedented times, even for them.

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Speaker 2: Unprecedented times require action. There is no one thing that

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Speaker 2: one person can do that's going to stop the mass

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Speaker 2: deportation plan, but it must begin here.

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Speaker 1: Jose Arias is a TPS holder and a business owner.

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Speaker 1: He says immigration enforcement is making workers and their children scared.

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Speaker 3: That trauma we are put in our kids today, they're

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Speaker 3: going to have consequences later.

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Speaker 1: From the State House. Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio