Massachusetts House Democrats are eyeing a bill from Black and Latino lawmakers as a starting point to rein in federal immigration action, just as Gov. Maura Healey is pushing her own legislation targeting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

President Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota has forced the issue into the spotlight on Beacon Hill, where elected officials are fielding a range of immigration proposals, including from Healey and the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus.

Rep. Aaron Michlewitz, a North End Democrat who chairs the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, said House lawmakers are giving Healey’s bill “serious consideration because we are in unprecedented circumstances” following the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota last month by federal immigration officers.

But he said lawmakers in the House want to build off of the Black and Latino Caucus version, because in his view, it’s “very well thought out.”

“They’ve been working on this well before any shooting in Minnesota, and so I think that they were looking at a long-term approach of how we can handle this,” Michlewitz told WBUR. “Because whatever we do here is important for the moment, but it’s also important going forward and beyond the Trump administration and whoever’s next to operate ICE.”

The House held three closed-door meetings this week for state representatives to discuss immigration policy.

“We are in an unprecedented circumstance right now, not just what happened in Minnesota two weeks ago, but just how this has evolved over the last couple of months. We certainly have a lot of concerns,” Michlewitz said.

The immigration bill from the Black and Latino caucus is wide-ranging, and includes some of the same measures Healey wrote into an executive order she signed last week, as well as the bill she filed with the Legislature.

Healey used her executive order to bar ICE from making civil arrests on non-public portions of state property, to prohibit the agency from using state facilities for staging purposes and state agencies from entering into agreements that allow local authorities to enforce federal immigration laws.

The caucus also included language in its bill that limits the deals with ICE, known as 287(g) agreements. But both Healey and the caucus keep intact the Department of Correction’s ability to strike the agreements. The department holds the only 287(g) deal in the state.

Healey and the caucus also aim to ban warrantless civil immigration arrests at courthouses.

Rep. Mike Connolly, a Cambridge Democrat who attended the first closed-door immigration meeting Wednesday, said based on discussions he’s had with colleagues, the caucus bill is “framing our discussion around how to respond to this ICE crackdown.”

But he said that, at the same time, “everyone is cognizant of several different bills, including the governor’s bill and several other bills that have been filed this session.”

The bills from Healey and the caucus diverge in key areas.

Healey’s bill attempts to bar federal immigration agents from entering non-state-owned spaces like child care centers, schools or day cares, a move some legal experts say could face legal challenges if approved.

The legislation drafted by the caucus puts in place safeguards for people who are detained in a state prison or county jail as part of an agreement with a federal immigration agency. The Plymouth County Correctional Facility is the only county jail in Massachusetts that holds detainees for ICE.

The caucus bill bars law enforcement officers from asking someone about their immigration or citizenship status unless they believe the information is directly tied to a crime under state law.

The caucus also proposed requiring law enforcement officers seeking certification from the state’s police oversight board to disclose whether they were previously employed or contracted by ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The disclosure would be used “for purposes of assessing training needs and ensuring compliance with the Commonwealth’s standards for de-escalation and bias-free policing,” according to the bill.

Democrats in House leadership used one of the closed-door meetings to talk with Republicans.

Rep. Brad Jones, the House minority leader from North Reading, said Democrats who led the meeting made clear the proposal from the caucus was “a bill, it’s not the bill” and that the House plans to hold a public hearing “at some point.”

“The fact that we feel the need to have these conversations, to feel the need to have to do something, is a demonstration of the absolute failure the federal government has been on this issue — Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, and everything in between,” Jones told reporters as he left the meeting.