ICE Out of Plymouth Rally

United for Plymouth team is planning a rally at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility on July 25, 2026 from 2 – 3:30pm. Indivisible Falmouth is endorsing this event and we hope to have a huge contingency from Falmouth attend. This is an all call for you and your friends to attend.

The facility in Plymouth is THE ONLY facility in Massachusetts with an IGSA (Intergovernmental Service Agreement) to rent out 526 beds for immigration detention.

• ICE pays the Sheriff’s dept $215 per detainee per day (at full capacity for a year that totals more than $40M)
• Sheriff McDonald initiated the first ICE agreement September 2008
• In 2017, the state Supreme Court Justice ruled that local law enforcement had no authority to detain people solely on the basis of a
federal civil immigration violation
• In April 2024, PCCF not only extended the ICE contract, but expanded their capacity by 39%, or 526 beds
• PCCF has 25 years of documented abuses and mistreatment. A system of abuse that was already in motion, before the ICE agreements

Here is the current plan for the rally, ICE Out of Plymouth – Sheriff McDonald End the ICE Agreement Now!
• Donation collections for BIJAN – bond and legal defense fund
• Guest speakers
o Amanda McGonigle – Cats on a Couch
o Craig Swallow – Candidate for US Congress – MA District 9
o more to be announced
• The Resistance Choir
• Postcarding table
• Lots of educational table literature
• 3pm candlelight vigil

Please invite your local elected officials to attend!

Immigration detention in the U.S. is unnecessary, rife with systemic abuses, arbitrary, and unlawful under international human rights law. – Amnesty International