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Mayor Menino: Thanks For Speaking Out—Let's End S-Comm in Boston
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    1,265 out of 1,500
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    1. Mayor of Boston (+ 16 others)
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      • Mayor of Boston (Thomas Menino)
      • Citizen Orange (Kyle de Beausset)
      • Media Relations for Boston Police Department (Edward Davis)
      • At-Large Boston City Councillor (Felix Arroyo)
      • District 4 Boston City Councillor (Charles Yancey)
      • At-Large Boston City Councillor (John Connolly)
      • District 5 Boston City Councillor (Rob Consalvo)
      • At-Large Boston City Councillor (Ayanna Pressley)
      • District 6 Boston City Councillor (Matt O'Malley)
      • District 2 Boston City Councillor (Bill Linehan)
      • District 7 Boston City Councillor (Tito Jackson)
      • District 8 Boston City Councillor (Michael Ross)
      • District 9 Boston City Councillor (Mark Ciommo)
      • District 1 Boston City Councillor (Salvatore LaMattina)
      • Office of Boston City Councillor Sal LaMattina (Camilo Hernandez)
      • District 3 Boston City Councillor (Maureen Feeney)
      • At-Large Boston City Council President (Stephen Murphy)
  2. Created By
    Kyle de Beausset
    Cambridge, MA
About this Petition Petition Letter Petition Updates

Mayor Menino has already taken important steps towards ending the federal [In]Secure Communities program in Boston.  Sign this petiton to ask him to take the final step and do everything in his power to end S-Comm, now.  

S-Comm is a federal program that forces local police to check the immigration status of everyone that they arrest.

After local organizations raised objections, and cases of the wrong people getting ensnared in S-Comm were brought to light, Mayor Menino wrote a letter to the Department of Homeland Security threatening to pull out if the program isn't significantly changed. 

This is an important step, but as long as local police are forced to check the immigration status of everyone they arrest migrant communities will still be fearful of interacting with the police.  Mayor Menino should do everything in his power to end the program, now, until the the program is fixed.  

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Mayor Menino Be The Pro-Migrant Champion You Are and End S-Comm, Now

Greetings,

I want to thank Mayor Menino for the important steps he's already taken to end the [In]Secure Communities program (S-Comm) in Boston. However, until the Boston Police are no longer forced to check the immigration status of everyone they arrest, migrant communities will still be fearful of interacting with the police and that makes us all less safe.

Mayor Menino has already listed problems that he has with the program, why not end it until the Department of Homeland Security fixes those problems?

[Your name]

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