The Department of Homeland Security blasted Michelle Wu, Boston’s radical leftist mayor, for comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis.
From The Daily Wire:
“I don’t know of any police department that routinely wears masks. We know that there are other groups that routinely wear masks. NSC-131 routinely wears masks,” Wu told reporters.“Mayor, just to clarify, are you comparing ICE to — you said — to NSC-131, a neo-Nazi group? Are you comparing them to a neo-Nazi group?” a reporter asked.“What I said is that Boston police, and no police department that I know of at the local level, routinely wears masks” she answered.
Michelle Wu is a regular topic at Legal Insurrection.
Mike mentioned Wu’s comments in his article: Democrats Want to Unmask ICE Agents But Not Anti-Israel Campus Protesters.
DHS responded:
Mayor Wu comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is SICKENING.When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by known and suspected gang members, murders, and rapists.Attacks and demonization of our brave law enforcement is WRONG. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults.
The White House condemned Wu on its website.
“Because of dangerous, unhinged smears from the Left, ICE officers are facing a 413% increase in assaults. President Trump is keeping his promise to the American people to deport illegal aliens. It’s disturbing that Democrats like Mayor Wu would side with illegal immigrants over Americans and stoke hatred against American law enforcement,” said White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons demanded that everyone stop their dangerous rhetoric:
Politicians need to stop putting my people in danger. I’m not asking them to stop. I’m demanding that they stop.Here’s what I have to say to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, and anyone else stirring up the outrage about what ICE does. These are real people with real families. You’re hurting with your ridiculous rhetoric and inflammatory comments and it’s time to remember that.
The White House’s Rapid Response X account continued a thread naming the “vicious monsters” with criminal records that ICE agents arrested in Boston.
So many of them committed sexual crimes against children!
President Donald Trump went hard and fast against illegal immigration on his first day in office.
It didn’t take long for threats against ICE agents to ramp up.
Shoot, people erupted at a New York City courthouse when ICE agents went to arrest an illegal alien.
It seems to be a regular occurrence at these courthouses.
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