UPDATED 3rd LETTER: STOP VIOLATING OUR STATE CONSTITUTION AT HANSCOM FIELD
This is our third letter to the Governor and Massport. If you have sent one of our thousands of letters already, please do so again with this new update.
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Why This Matters
Massachusetts residents are being removed from our state through charter flights from Hanscom Field without access to counsel or family support, violating their due process rights under our State Constitution. Massport has a legal way to stop these flights. Demand that they use it.
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Send this letter to Gov. Healey. Subject Line: Stop Massport's Cooperation with ICE Deportation Flights
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Full Letter Text
This is the complete letter being sent to Massport:
TO: Chief Executive Officer Davey, Board Chair Jacobs, and Vice Chair O'Brien
RE: 3rd Request: Stop Violating the Massachusetts Constitution at Hanscom Field
Dear Chief Executive Officer Davey, Board Chair Jacobs, and Vice Chair O'Brien,
You have received over 2000 individual letters and emails asking you to take action to stop ICE flights from operating at Hanscom Field. I am writing again because the continuation of these flights is illegal under your own rules, under the Governor's Executive Order, and under the Massachusetts Constitution itself.
In her December 12, 2025 letter to DHS Secretary Noem and Acting ICE Director Lyons, Governor Healey wrote: "Flying these residents out of state and away from their support systems and legal counsel — often within hours of arrest — is intentionally cruel and purposely obstructs the due process and legal representation they are owed."
On January 29, 2026, Governor Healey reinforced this position by signing Executive Order No. 650, which explicitly prohibits state facilities and property owned or controlled by the Executive Department from being used by federal immigration officers "as a staging area, processing location, or operations base for civil immigration enforcement efforts." Although Massport describes itself as independent, it is a creature of state legislation — established by the Massachusetts Legislature as "a body politic and corporate and a public instrumentality of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts" under Chapter 465 of the Acts of 1956 — with five of its seven board members appointed by the Governor, and it owns and controls Hanscom Field outright as state property. Therefore Executive Order No. 650 applies to operations of Massport and its FBO tenants at Hanscom.
The constitutional stakes could not be higher. The Federal guarantee of due process says no person shall be "deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 goes further, guaranteeing that the right of habeas corpus "shall be enjoyed in this Commonwealth in the most free, easy, cheap, expeditious and ample manner" (Chapter VI, Article VII). The Legislature has not suspended this right. Detainees involuntarily flown out of Hanscom are being denied constitutional protections they are guaranteed under Massachusetts law — often before their families or lawyers even know they are gone.
You are also in direct violation of your own regulations. ICE charter operations at Hanscom use aircraft with 150–180 seat capacity, in direct violation of 740 CMR 25.03, which prohibits commercial air passenger service using aircraft with more than 60 seats without a waiver from the Executive Director. The FAA defines Section 121 charters — such as those operated by GlobalX and Eastern Air Express — as commercial air passenger service. The regulation expressly prohibits waivers for regular and recurring flights. The Board has enforced compliance on lessees and contractors before, as with its 2014 and 2019 living wage resolutions. The authority and the obligation to act here are identical.
We demand you immediately implement a screening program for all involuntary transfers boarded onto flights at Hanscom Field that guarantees the due process and habeas rights of each person have been fully respected before departure. We demand you halt all large charter operations at Hanscom Field unless they have received a waiver from the Massport Executive Director in compliance with 740 CMR 25.00. And we demand you honor Governor Healey's Executive Order No. 650 by ending Massport's role as a staging ground for federal civil immigration enforcement.
You cannot defy Governor Healey's explicit order by not taking any action. The Massachusetts Constitution demands action. Our Governor has demanded action. Over two thousand Massachusetts residents have demanded action. Make these changes now.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your City/Town], Massachusetts
