Massachusetts lawmakers consider bill forbidding inmates from working on President Donald Trump's...

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Massachusetts lawmakers consider bill forbidding inmates from working on President Donald Trump's border wall

BOSTON -- The woman spoke in Spanish through a translator, telling her story of domestic abuse. Her husband beat her and mistreated her children for nine years, she said. She never called the police because her husband, a legal permanent U.S. resident, threatened to have her deported if she did.

"Please don't allow police to have power to deport people like me," the woman urged Massachusetts lawmakers, testifying before the Judiciary Committee on Monday as part of a panel organized by the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition.

The Massachusetts Legislature is considering two bills that would curb the ability of state and local law enforcement to use state money to enforce federal immigration policy.

One bill, H.3034, sponsored by Rep. Antonio Cabral, D-New Bedford, would forbid prison inmates from working outside of Massachusetts. The bill is a response to a suggestion by Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson that he would offer the use of county jail inmates as laborers to build President Donald Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico.

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