Boston City Council Votes Unanimously to Reaffirm Sanctuary City Status
“It’s not just a policy, but it is a promise to our immigrant neighbors that they are welcome here, and this is a safe haven, and they don’t have to live in fear of being unjustly scrutinized or even ripped away from their families”
The thirteen members of the Boston City Council voted unanimously this week to maintain the city’s status as a ‘sanctuary’ city. This comes after a recent report that dozens of Massachusetts children have been sexually assaulted by illegal aliens this year.
These councilors are putting their virtue-signaling ahead of public safety and the law.
NEW: The Boston city council voted 13-0 yesterday to reaffirm its sanctuary city status to protect illegal immigrants & “brace for impact” ahead of Trump’s promised mass deportations.
ICE’s Boston office is one of the busiest in the country, making weekly arrests of illegal… pic.twitter.com/CS4OnmvIky
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) December 5, 2024
From the Boston Herald:
Boston City Council reaffirms sanctuary status to ‘brace for impact’ of Trump mass deportation vow
The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to reaffirm Boston’s status as a sanctuary city “to protect” immigrants amid President Donald Trump’s vow to carry out mass deportations when he takes office for the second time next month.
The 13-0 vote was to reaffirm the Boston Trust Act, which, per the Council’s approved resolution, was first enacted in 2014, later amended in 2019, and “delineates the distinct roles and responsibilities of the Boston Police Department from those of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), thereby promoting trust between local law enforcement and immigrant communities.”
The law prohibits Boston Police and other city departments from cooperating with ICE when it comes to detaining immigrants on civil warrants, while still allowing for cooperation in criminal matters like human trafficking, child exploitation, drug and weapons trafficking, and cybercrimes, according to the resolution.
“It’s not just a policy, but it is a promise to our immigrant neighbors that they are welcome here, and this is a safe haven, and they don’t have to live in fear of being unjustly scrutinized or even ripped away from their families,” Councilor Gabriela Coletta Zapata said at the Wednesday City Council meeting. “As we brace for impact, we’ve got to make sure that we all work together.”
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has made her position on all of this quite clear. She has no plans to work with Trump.
From WGBH:
Mayor Wu says Boston police won’t have to assist in mass deportations under Trump
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the city has laws in place to protect immigrants during of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, under which he has promised mass deportations.
Wu, speaking on Boston Public Radio’s “Ask The Mayor” segment, said local law enforcement does not have to assist in deportations of people based solely on immigration status.
“The Boston Trust Act puts strict prohibitions on local law enforcement from being pulled into becoming the enforcement arm for the whims of whatever the sort of approach of the federal immigration law might be,” Wu said.
The Boston Trust Act was signed into law in 2014 under Mayor Marty Walsh, and amendments were made in 2019.
Boston’s City Council, under the leadership of a destructively liberal mayor, Michelle Wu, just voted to UNANIMOUSLY uphold Boston’s status as a “sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants.
This means that they will force local law enforcement to NOT cooperate with the federal… pic.twitter.com/JlxuMsNdg4
— GIRRRIM (@GIRRRIM) December 6, 2024
Update: 🚨
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the City of Boston have just voted unanimously to prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE.
I guess all that backtracking was meaningless and her statement about pledging to take care of illegal aliens over her fellow… pic.twitter.com/8AwgeJUeFS
— Tom Homan – Border Czar News (@TomHoman_) December 5, 2024
It feels like this situation is headed for a showdown.
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13 stupid people. A majority of stupid people put them in office too..
“Woo woo” Wu and the other Boston socialists are conflating and misrepresenting terms, e.g. “Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the city has laws in place to protect immigrants during of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, under which he has promised mass deportations.”
“IMMIGRANTS” are being used to dishonestly combine legal and illegal immigrants. LEGAL immigrants are going NOWHERE.
Yet they perpetuate this lie to the MA rubes, who eat it up and wash it down with Dem Kool-Aid.
Will Woo woo have her all black “holiday” dinner again this year? Whites need not apply or expect an invitation.
https://apnews.com/article/holiday-party-elected-officials-color-boston-wu-708c23f6c43d55f478387d0e4d9af74d
Democrats like any leftist movement before them will always whore up the language to cover for bad ideology and worse ideas. Alinsky training to perfection..
Memo to Texas: Start rolling them buses to Boston.
Actually, it’s now 12. The FBI just arrested one of them for Fraud.
Massachusetts and Boston proper are a lost cause. Marxist fools who see sunshine and lollipops everywhere. Wu is a complete virtue signaling leftist.
The Boston City Council has the collective intelligence of a turnip. And one is a crook.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/12/06/boston-city-councilor-arrested-by-feds-on-corruption-charges/
Correction. They all are. They just haven’t been arrested yet.
Hard to believe that MA had been one of the Thirteen.
“Now there arose up a new king [leftism] over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.” Exodus 1:8.
The asiatic Wu must constantly wonder, “how did these stupid Western Europeans ever outpace us? Such fools take the cake, ha ha.”
The Republican Congress should strip the qualified immunity protections from any legislators/executives/law enforcement and JUDICIAL members engaged in providing sanctuary to illegal aliens. If these idiots want to make the nation a more dangerous place by harboring criminal aliens, then let them take FINANCIAL responsibility for the crimes these aliens commit.
It can’t. They have an absolute constitutional right to do this, and Congress cannot do anything to compel them.
As for their immunity, Congress didn’t confer it in the first place, so Congress cannot take it away.
Make them choke on their virtue.
Sanctuary City Bus Line. Departing daily for Denver, SF, LA, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and all sanctuary points in between.
Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby
“Columbia University now has a newspaper called “The Columbia Intifada.”
The fact that Columbia still receives federal funding AND tax-exempt status is laughable.”
‘You can’t fix stupid”.
But you can vote it out of office if you aren’t a pack of MA communists.
Wu and the Boston City Council are clearly incapable of understanding that their collective a** is grass and Tom Homan, in particular, will be the lawn mower.
No, it isn’t and there is nothing Homan can do about it. The constitution protects their right, as a division of the state of Massachusetts, to do this. Only the state can ban them from doing it, and it doesn’t want to. Or the voters could decide this is a bad idea and vote them out, but they agree with it.
Sounds like the Massholes are about to experience pain.
A couple of approaches are possible, Option 1 would be to target sanctuary jurisdictions for ICE enforcement operations, arresting local officials and people who interfere. Option 2 is to concentrate enforcement operations on criminals in non-sanctuary jurisdictions, demonstrating the benefits of cooperating and indirectly motivating the least desirable illegals to relocate to sanctuary jurisdictions,
In Option 1 you falsely assume that local officials or people would interfere. There is no basis for that. In all the years that “sanctuary cities” have been operating (at least 25 years that I recall) there has never been even one report of such a thing happening.
The only report of an official interfering with ICE was by a state official in a non-sanctuary state. (She happened to be located in a sanctuary city, but she didn’t work for the city, so that’s irrelevant. The city’s sanctuary status did not affect her. She just decided to commit the crime on her own.)
Milhouse,
There was Massachusetts judge Shelly Joseph, Federally indicted in 2018 for escorting a twice deported illegal out of the courthouse by the secured back entrance to avoid an ICE agent waiting in he lobby.
She had asked the agent to wait in the lobby, then helped the Dominican to escape by way of the sally port.
The indictment was dropped after she agreed to self report herself to the state commission on judicial conduct.
She is back on the bench after the indictment was dropped.
The commission has filed formal charges.
So there is at least one state judge helping illegals escape ICE agents
I’m pretty sure that the incoming Trump administration is not going to suffer fools gladly and that by reaffirming this stupid policy that they’ve now painted a bulls eye on their collective backs. Enjoy jail, guys!
No problem. Let the sanctuary Cities/States choke on it for a while. Accomplish this by:
1. Focus interior removal efforts in States which cooperate with ICE. This has the effect of making things too ‘hot’ in there States and the illegal aliens will have an incentive to leave for a ‘sanctuary area’ or self deport.
2. Congress should reassert the ‘public charge’ rule by restricting eligibility for any Federal programs to US Citizens. This has the effect of forcing the ‘sanctuary’ areas to pay full costs of supporting illegal aliens. No federal welfare nor reimbursement for illegal aliens to include education funds, healthcare funds for States which refuse to gather data, report and cooperate with ICE.
Illegal use of fed funds could have some problems.
8 USC 1324 lists several crimes that these Boston crooks should get hammered on. https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1907-title-8-usc-1324a-offenses
Example:
Harboring — Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) makes it an offense for any person who — knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation.
Encouraging/Inducing — Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) makes it an offense for any person who — encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law.
No, they can’t be charged with either of those things. They are not harboring anyone. They are merely exercising their undisputed constitutional right to refuse to cooperate with ICE. Any federal official who tries in any way to compel them to cooperate is a criminal, exactly like the illegal immigrants. Committing a crime in the name of enforcing the law automatically invalidates what you’re doing. Before you worry about illegal immigrants, arrest yourself first.
The showdown could be avoided by just not dealing with illegal immigrants in Boston. If Boston wants them so badly then they can keep them and accept tons more. Taking the Abbott approach would be helpful here; just drop off illegal immigrants in Boston; let them have all of them. Make those politicians uphold their insane policies, and help the states and cities that actually want the help. If Boston cares then they will oust those politicians and put in new ones who actually care about them. You get what you vote for.
In 2011, Obama successfully sued Arizona for attempting to enforce federal immigration laws because the court ruled that the federal govt. alone has plenury power over immigration.
If it was a crime then, it’s a crime now. Put every single one of these ReSiSt politicos in prison, or it’s still just *clown world*
Every. Single. One.
You’re making no sense. That decision works against your case, not for it. It says the federal government is the only one that can enforce immigration laws; states can’t enforce them without federal permission. But they don’t have to do so even with federal permission. The federal government has no right to compel them to do so, even if it wants to. All it can do is allow them, and then ask nicely.
Gooder and harder, Boston.
Gooder and harder.
And now a Boston City Councilor, Tania Fernandes Anderson, has been arrested on charges of wire fraud and theft. It seems she’s black, female, Muslim, and possibly illegal alien, an intersectionalist’s dream. Whatcha wanna bet she screams “Racism! Sexism! Beliefism!”?
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This is what happens everytime you let minorities run anything in America
IMO we should instead focus on ensuring basic competence, individual merit and respect for the positive aspects of western civilization in choosing our leaders than any other characteristics.
Send them all to these sanctuaries, since that is what these fools are asking for.
“Council to Boston Citizens: Bend Over And Shut Up.”
Bit insurrectiony….
Not at all. They’re just asserting an undisputed constitutional right that has been upheld for the entire history of this republic.
I knew we would get back to sanctuary cities as soon as Trump gets in office and starts deporting illegals.