The two top Democrats on Beacon Hill on Monday raced to condemn new and aggressive immigration enforcement actions across Massachusetts, but offered no firm commitments on legislation that could counter it.

“I will say my communities are very concerned. It was one of my communities [where they] stopped a student, a high school student on his way to school, actually, for volleyball practice, was stopped,” Senate President Karen E. Spilka, D-Middlesex/Norfolk, said, referring to the case of Marcelo Gomes Da Silva , a Milford teen who was detained by ICE earlier this year.

“That promotes fear in all of our communities, all of our immigrant communities, so that children are concerned about going to school,” Spilka, of Ashland, said after a semi-regular leadership meeting with Gov. Maura H

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