MA Gov. Maura Healey Now Says She Backs ‘Apprehension of Criminals’ as ICE Raids Boston
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.
And here’s Healey now.
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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