BURLINGTON — Another delivery of dozens more vehicles to a parking garage near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Burlington has activists concerned about a larger ICE surge into Massachusetts.

In a video posted to YouTube by an account named Bearing Witness at ICE Burlington, MA shows dozens of unregistered vehicles parked in a parking garage around the corner from the ICE office, behind the Charles River building. The vehicles are of different makes and models, but are all SUVs.

According to the Bearing Witness video, which was filmed by spokesperson Jay Duchin, more than 100 brand new vehicles were counted in the parking garage, many, but not all of which had paperwork in the passenger windows indicating they are intended for 1000 District Ave.

The vehicles were still there when The Sun visited the parking garage Friday morning with the paperwork still on display in the windows, and without license plates. It is not clear when these vehicles were delivered to the parking garage. Most of the vehicles with visible paperwork were 2026 edition Nissan Armadas and Chevrolet Tahoes.

The Nissan Armadas parked in the first floor of the garage appeared to have been delivered to the ICE office address, while other models like the Chevrolet Tahoes did not have a specified delivery location.

ICE Boston spokesperson James Covington and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return a request for comment by The Sun Friday.

The apparent new delivery of vehicles comes after two dozen white Ford SUVs were delivered directly to the ICE office in January, with activists filming the arrival of the vehicles on the backs of delivery trucks.

Bearing Witness has been organizing weekly protests outside the ICE facility every Wednesday since last May, when rumors about the poor conditions for detainees inside began to surface. Linda Duchin, who also serves on the Bearing Witness communications team with her husband, said they marked 46 consecutive weeks of protesting this week. After states like Minnesota and Maine recently saw a surge of ICE activity, Linda Duchin said the delivery of more than 100 vehicles brings fears of a similar situation coming to Massachusetts.

“That is our fear, that they are staging them for a surge,” said Linda Duchin in a phone call with The Sun Friday afternoon.

Not every vehicle’s paperwork specified their destination as 1000 District Ave. Some of the paperwork visible in the vehicle windows did not specify a delivery destination at all. In one row of Nissan SUVs on the parking garage’s top floor, there was evidence that paperwork had previously been on display in the passenger window, but it has since been removed.

Jay Duchin told The Sun he could not say for sure that all the vehicles at the parking garage were for ICE, but with many being specified for the agency’s Burlington address, and all of them carrying similar specifications, he felt confident.

“Who else could be getting them?” said Jay Duchin.

The delivery of new vehicles comes as Gov. Maura Healey calls for greater transparency into arrests made by ICE. In a Friday letter to DHS, Healey demanded that ICE provide an accounting of every person arrested by ICE in Massachusetts since January 2025, including their identities, legal basis for arrest, current case status, detention location, court jurisdiction and upcoming dates for hearings.

“Many of those taken into custody are long-standing members of our communities — parents, caregivers and workers whose sudden detention leaves their families in crisis. This has had far-reaching consequences for their children, families, our communities, and the state of Massachusetts,” said Healey’s letter.

The letter continued, “Following the May 2025 surge operation called ‘Operation Patriot,’ ICE boasted of 1,461 arrests that month alone. Of those arrests, 671 — or 46% — of those detained had no criminal background whatsoever. ICE has provided limited public information about only 14 of the individuals detained.”

In a second ICE surge into Massachusetts in September, Healey’s letter claimed just 40% of those arrested had ever been convicted of a crime, and just 2% had been convicted of a violent crime.

“This means more than half of the people that ICE arrested and detained during these two surge operations in Massachusetts have never been accused of or convicted of any crime. ICE has provided no information about the many others who have been arrested in the months between and since these operations,” said Healey.

Bearing Witness is just six weeks away from marking one full year of weekly protests. Linda and Jay Duchin both said the protests have remained peaceful, but as time has gone on, the organization has expanded its mission of supporting immigrants detained by ICE.

“What we are trying to do is keep the pressure on the politicians to get more oversight,” said Linda Duchin.

She noted last month’s court order barring ICE from blocking access to its facilities to elected lawmakers who show up unannounced. Jay Duchin said with that ruling in effect, officials opposing ICE’s actions over the last year should take advantage of the opportunity.

“They shouldn’t just throw their hands up in the air when they are not allowed in,” said Jay Duchin.

The fears of a new ICE surge into Massachusetts comes on the heels of a significant surge in Minnesota, where two U.S. citizens were killed in separate encounters with immigration agents in January. That same month, another surge was reported closer to home in Maine, where Gov. Janet Mills said 200 people were detained by the end of it.

It also comes after Thursday’s announcement that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was being ousted from the role in favor of Republican Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin. Noem is not leaving the Trump administration entirely, and will instead take on a newly created role as “special envoy for the Shield of the Americas,” a new security initiative from President Donald Trump intended to focus on the western hemisphere.