MA Gov. Maura Healey Now Says She Backs ‘Apprehension of Criminals’ as ICE Raids Boston
“Whether you’re documented or undocumented, you commit crimes, you’re subject to investigation and prosecution and accountability, and it looks like that is what happened”

As recently as November, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey was vowing to use her executive powers to oppose Trump’s plans to deport illegal immigrants. Now that ICE is actively arresting people in the city of Boston, she seems to have changed her tune.
Here’s Healey appearing on MSNBC on election night.
Massachusetts Governor says she will use ‘executive power’ to stop Trump from deporting criminal aliens
“We want to protect our residents.”pic.twitter.com/eS3jf1f2do
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 7, 2024
And here’s Healey now.
NEW: MA Governor Maura Healey reacts to the ICE Boston operation we covered:
“I support the apprehension of criminals” https://t.co/ACQEcFxLUh
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 24, 2025
What changed?
From WCVB News:
Gov. Healey on recent Massachusetts immigration arrests: ‘I support the apprehension of criminals’
Federal immigration agents were seen Wednesday taking a man into custody in Chelsea, Massachusetts, as well as making other arrests in East Boston.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey addressed the arrests, saying she wouldn’t be quick to call them “raids.”
“I wouldn’t describe them as raids,” Healey said.”What it seems to be, and what we expected and what I support, which is the apprehension of criminals in our communities.”
Healey said she supports arresting criminals — whether they are undocumented or not.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell is pushing back after President Donald Trump promised a crackdown on immigration.
Campbell is accusing the Trump administration of trying to force state and local officials to be used for federal immigration enforcement. She also says she is watching these arrests to make sure they’re lawful.
FOX News has more:
Fox News witnessed ICE Boston making eight arrests this week, including multiple MS-13 members, Interpol Red Notices, murder and rape suspects, and a volatile Haitian gang member with 18 convictions in recent years who shouted that he “ain’t going back to Haiti” and “F— Trump, Biden forever!”
The arrests come as the Trump administration moves rapidly to fulfill its promise to launch a historic mass deportation operation, which it has said will focus primarily – but not exclusively – on public safety threats…
“Whether you’re documented or undocumented, you commit crimes, you’re subject to investigation and prosecution and accountability, and it looks like that is what happened,” Healey said, according to Fox local outlet, Boston 25.
Healey, who previously vowed to resist Trump’s deportation efforts in November, noted that Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state, despite a 2017 ruling by the state Supreme Judicial Court that severely limits law enforcement cooperation with ICE.
Somehow, I don’t think Healey’s more progressive constituents are going to accept her new spin on this situation.

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So, will she turn herself in?
“Healey said she supports arresting criminals — whether they are undocumented or not.” If they entered the United States out of accordance with our laws, they *are* criminals!
Does this woman not realize what she said? Way to go, Guv.
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Look at the faces of those people around her! They look like they want to heave.
I am particularly sympathetic to the woman at Maura’s right hand, who was Assigned Asymmetrical At Birth.
She probably just wants to save money. The state of Massachusetts is paying $42 per meal times 3 a day for migrants she is keeping in hotels, not counting the cost of the hotel.
I am old enough to remember when a mere 50 “undocumented citizens” (as they are called now) caused panic and pandemonium in the wealthy Communist enclave of Martha’s Vineyard.
The defining characteristic of rich “sanctuary” towns, cities and states is that illegal aliens are welcome – just so long as they are not so uncouth and ill-mannered as to actually show up.
Oh, they’ve escalated the euphemism to include “citizens” now?
Next will be “unregisterable citizens,” and then the full-court press to “give these citizens all of their constitutional rights!”
Sorry, bullshit throwers — they’re still “illegal aliens,” and I’ll still use that term.
MA voters want criminals released and illegal aliens protected. That’s why they elected Healey and other Dems. What was she thinking??
“Criminals.” That includes ALL illegal aliens. I don’t think she quite understands what she has said.
Evidently not.
Somehow, I don’t think Healey’s more progressive constituents are going to accept her new spin on this situation.
Nope. This is exactly what those constituents want. Seems illogical but it’s not. On the scale of things, a Republican (especially a Trump-like Republican) is more distasteful than criminal illegals. MA democrats will therefore always vote for the progressive Democrat and hope for the best (except for the rich ones who will demand illegals be kept far away from them).
Now that Trump is president and the deportations have started, MA residents are quite happy with that. It’s a win-win: they get to vote for Democrats with a clear conscience while Trump cleans up. They’ll whine and moan to keep up appearances for their neighbors, but deep down it’s a sigh of relief.
So TL;DR: they can continue to virtue signal without any of the practical consequences inherent, just like their idols on Martha’s Vineyard.
Next step needs to be ending all payments or grants to the ‘charities’ and NGOs who facilitate illegal aliens.
How about trying them as accessories? Seems it would be a slam dunk — they are quite candid about helping border crosses break our immigration laws.
As far as I know they aren’t. They’re not helping them cross the border, or at least they’re not admitting to it. Helping them survive while they’re here is legal.
President Trump or Tom Homan probably called her and told her to knock that “resist” nonsense off if she didn’t want to end up like Eric Adams.
30 years ago, when Bill Clinton did a similar 180° to support a three-strikes law, I commented that “he’s had that particular post rammed so far up his ^$# by the voting public that the only way to save face was to smile and pretend that imitating a lollipop was his idea all along.”
Welcome to the Big Rock Candy Mountain, Maura Healy!
First that doofus Mayor of NYC followed by the mayor of Denver and now the smirking lesbian out in MA. I guess all that posturing was just that now that someone serious is occupying 1600 Penn Ave and they found out Homan was dead serious.
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