Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed the PROTECT Act into law to ban ICE from conducting warrantless civil arrests at state facilities like schools and hospitals. But even if an ICE officer is to break the law, they will not be immediately arrested
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If an ICE officer is found breaking the newly enacted PROTECT Act, they face exposure to state-level civil lawsuits, formal prosecution threats by state officials, and extensive auditing, but they will not be arrested by local police.
Because of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and federal immunity doctrines, a local police department does not have the legal authority to physically handcuff and jail a federal agent who is carrying out an immigration enforcement action, even if that action violates state law.
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