As Legal Insurrection has documented, Boston has been one of the main offenders among the so-called “sanctuary cities” for its refusal to cooperate with ICE on detainers for criminal illegal immigrants, even though the city has become a Ground Zero of sorts for the worst of the worst among violent criminal illegals.
Its mayor, woke Democrat Michelle Wu, has gone so far as to compare ICE agents to neo-Nazis, telling reporters back in June that “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.”
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More recently, Wu vowed to continue to defy the Trump administration on illegal immigration after being sent a letter from DOJ Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding to know what they were doing to change their policies and procedures in a way that would allow for better cooperation with ICE.
“The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is,” Wu stated during a Tuesday press conference at Boston City Hall Plaza. “Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.”
“… do you take the risk but stand up for your community, for your people, and for what’s right? I don’t feel that I have a choice as mayor of this city,” Wu also proclaimed.
In the aftermath of Wu’s announcement, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons sat down for an interview with Boston talk radio host Howie Carr and informed him and anyone else listening that not only would federal immigration agents be “flooding the zone” in Boston despite Wu’s declarations, but that some Boston police officers were doing what they could to help behind the scenes:
Lyons also stated that Boston Police, while prohibited in some instances from cooperating with ICE by way of the city’s Trust Act, is often helping federal authorities “behind the scenes,” unbeknownst to Mayor Wu.Those Boston police officers can’t cooperate openly with ICE out of fear of “getting in trouble or getting fired,” Lyons said.
And it’s not just in Boston, Lyons also claimed:
“That’s the issue we’re seeing in so many jurisdictions,” Lyons said. “We have so many men and women on the Boston Police Department and other jurisdictions that are so pro-ICE, that want to work with us and that are actually helping us behind the scenes.“And that’s what I think local leaders don’t understand, is they need to talk to the men and women on the ground, because … there are so many of these criminal aliens that keep getting released to go out and commit more crimes that the local law enforcement have to deal with. We can take that violent criminal alien instantly out of the neighborhood,” the ICE director added.
If true, it speaks volumes that police officers are willing to risk possible disciplinary action or even firing to assist ICE in whatever ways they can to apprehend criminal illegals in the face of Wu’s defiance.
As Lyons correctly pointed out, these police officers are the people who are on the front lines every day and see what’s going on in their communities more than anyone else. They risk life and limb to arrest lawbreakers, only to be slapped in the face when ICE detainers on criminal illegals aren’t honored.
In turn, this makes city streets more dangerous for innocent citizens who are going about their daily lives.
If Michelle Wu and other Democrat “leaders” in her city had any shame, they’d reconsider and reverse course in the face of so much evidence that contradicts their statements about Boston being “one of the nation’s safest cities,” which it can’t be as long as criminal illegal immigrants are allowed to roam free.
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