Mike wrote a couple of weeks ago about how Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) seemingly had a change of heart over the issue of illegal immigrants in the Bay State.
It was, of course, interestingly timed, coming just days after President Donald Trump took office and immediately made it clear that the roundups of illegal immigrants with violent criminal histories would resume under his administration without delay.
“I wouldn’t describe them as raids,” Healey proclaimed in response to arrests that took place in East Boston, per WCVB.
“What it seems to be, and what we expected and what I support, which is the apprehension of criminals in our communities,” she also said, while declaring later that her state was not a sanctuary state.
As Mike noted in his report, the comments were in sharp contrast to the Resistance™ statement she made the night of Trump’s re-election:
Nearly a week after Healey took the tough-on-crime tone on illegal immigrants, she announced she is running for reelection in 2026:
“When [Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll] and I started, we laid out in our inaugural address things that we wanted to do. We wanted to get after housing, and we wanted to get after transportation, we wanted to cut taxes, we wanted to make investments in education,” Healey said on GBH Radio on Friday. “And I feel like we’ve done all those things, and there’s a heck of a lot more to do. And so I plan to run for reelection, because there’s a lot more to do.”
For the Massachusetts residents whose top priorities are crime and getting the illegal immigrant situation – including the scandal-plagued migrant shelters – under control, her reelection bid is going to be a tough sell, according to the MassGOP:
“Under her leadership, the Commonwealth has become the least transparent state in the nation, with billions wasted on a migrant crisis that has spiraled into a full-blown humanitarian disaster-marked by sexual assaults, drug trafficking, child abuse, and violent crime,” MassGOP said in a statement.Healey said last months that background checks she had ordered at Massachusetts [shelters] never happened. She’s also proposing changes to the heavily scrutinized right-to-shelter law in Massachusetts.
It’s going to be an even harder sell after the murder of 48-year-old Lynn, MA restaurant owner Ilias ‘Louie’ Mavros, as the suspect — 25-year-old Eric German-Pena—has been revealed to be an illegal immigrant who slipped in under the Biden-Harris administration back in 2022:
Crazy Buzzy’s Roast Beef and Seafood had only been open for four months at the time of Mavros’ murder. Lynn, MA is about a 25-30 minute drive from Boston. They are remaining open in his honor.
Understandably, fed-up residents are outraged:
Not surprisingly, Republican leaders in the Commonwealth are having to deal with the same “we must protect them” mentality from Democrats at the local and state levels that Republicans on Capitol Hill have had to for years:
‘Nuff said.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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