Good News – 6/18/25

But first: This week’s installment of “To Immigrants With Love”

A letter from the interactive exhibit that MIRA featured at Immigrants’ Day at the Statehouse.

IN THE COURTS

Immigration advocates filed a class action lawsuit last Wednesday over the Trump administration’s use of a proclamation that effectively put an end to being able to seek asylum at ports of entry to the United States.

Judge blocks plan to allow immigration agents in New York City jail

Judge extends order suspending Trump’s block on Harvard’s incoming foreign students

IN THE STREETS

‘No Kings’ Protests Across the United States in photos and videos

More photos from protests across the country

More photos

More than 1 million descend on Boston Common for Pride and No Kings rallies

Hundreds in Fall River and Swansea hold No Kings anti-Trump rallies: ‘Take back the flag’

As Trump celebrated the military, Texans protested his aggressive immigration enforcement. Demonstrations in McAllen, Midland, Odessa, Austin and elsewhere in Texas were largely peaceful, as some protests went well into the night.

In New York City, the biggest “No Kings” demonstration began at Bryant Park on Saturday afternoon before the crowd of an estimated 50,000 marched down Fifth Avenue to Madison Square Park.

Thousands gather across Colorado for ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump administration

An estimated 80,000 people marched up the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia carrying signs and waving flags as part of the nationwide “No Kings” day of protest

Dozens rally in Chelsea, MA for high school student and recent high school graduate detained by ICE

INSPIRATION AND WAYS TO TAKE ACTION

Poster campaign:

Artists for Justice and Democracy, a group of local artists, has created a number of posters that express support and appreciation for our immigrant community members. Here are the posters – feel free to share on social media and/or print out your own posters (11″x14″). They have printed up a number of the posters and are looking for people to:

1. Help develop and coordinate a poster campaign to reach out to businesses, agencies, institutions to ask them to display posters prominently and/or,

2. Pick up and put up posters at their agency/business etc. Looking to display the posters where they can be seen publicly, or if not public facing, at least in a place that gets a lot of internal foot traffic.

The Senate is racing ahead with their ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’, which includes the largest cuts to Medicaid in the program’s history, as well as significant rollbacks to the Affordable Care Act. The proposed cuts would rip away health care coverage from hundreds of thousands of people in Massachusetts who rely on it for life-saving treatment and medications, in order to pay for huge tax breaks for the wealthy

We may see the text for the Senate’s proposed bill as early as Monday evening, so we have the chance to stop these cuts if we act now.

Please join HCFA and SEIU as they continue to call constituents in key states and ask them to tell their Senators to oppose any cuts to health care.

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Monday, June 23rd 5-7pm

Wednesday, June 25th 5-7pm

Thursday, June 26th 5-7pm

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FOR YOU

You’re Part of Something Bigger – an inspiring message from Americans of Conscience that reminds us to look around and gather strength in knowing there are ecosystems of social change and resistance all around us.