Local News Healey signs sweeping law to restrict ICE "ICE needs to be stopped, here in Massachusetts and around this country. Maura Healey speaks before she signs the Protect Act, a bill designed to protect immigrants from ICE agents, at La Colaborativa in Chelsea. Maura Healey signed major legislation Wednesday meant to rein in the actions of ICE agents working to carry out the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. ICE is hurting people, ICE is hurting our communities, ICE is hurting our economy, ICE is hurting our country,” Healey said. “I want to be clear: the law I’m signing today is a public safety law,” Healey said.