Michelle Wu Vows Continued Defiance of ICE As List of Criminal Illegals Protected by Boston Grows
“…do you stay silent and comply to try to avoid some unknown, uncertain, huge threat? Or 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.”
Considering illegal immigration has been a top priority for President Donald Trump, sanctuary city/state Democrats have been on notice since Day One, with the Trump administration filing lawsuits and the GOP Congress having some of the mayors and governors of these cities and states appear for contentious hearings. The war of words has also escalated as ICE carries out its sweeps amid Democrat “leaders” demanding that they cease activity.
Earlier this month, the DOJ published a list of sanctuary jurisdictions, noting that they “will continue bringing litigation against sanctuary jurisdictions and work closely with the Department of Homeland Security to eradicate these harmful policies around the country.”
Soon after, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent letters to many of these jurisdictions demanding to know what they were doing to change their policies and procedures in a way that would allow for better cooperation with ICE:
“You are hereby notified that your jurisdiction has been identified as one that engages in sanctuary policies and practices that thwart federal immigration enforcement to the detriment of the interests of the United States. This ends now. By Tuesday, August 19, 2025, please submit a response to this letter that confirms your commitment to complying with federal law and identifies the immediate initiatives you are taking to eliminate laws, policies, and practices that impede federal immigration enforcement. This letter does not constitute final agency action and nothing in this letter creates any right or benefit enforceable at law against the United States,” the letters read.
Boston’s woke, Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu, who has compared ICE agents to neo-Nazis, was among those who received the letter. Her initial response was pretty predictable:
“Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu told NBC10 Boston Friday when first asked about the letter.
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“We are going to continue to stand up for the city of Boston,” she said. “Boston does not back down to bullies. Boston does not back down in the face of threats.”
Watch:
NEW: Boston @MayorWu sends a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration.
“Boston does not back down to bullies.“
This comes as the Trump administration has given Wu until Tuesday to explain how she plans to stop shielding illegals
Watch below pic.twitter.com/yvD3RmNC4G
— Bostonians Against Mayor Wu (@AntiWuCoalition) August 18, 2025
On Tuesday, the deadline for a more formal response, Wu made a very public show of it at the Boston City Hall Plaza, vowing to remain defiant against DHS as supporters cheered her on:
“ The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is,” Wu said. “Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.”
The mayor reiterated her position that Boston is one of the nation’s safest cities because police do not pursue civil immigration violations. Instead, Wu said, immigrants here are encouraged to cooperate with police investigations into crimes.
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“There is some level of uncertainty. And the cruelty and uncertainty is the point from this federal administration,” she said. “But when we’re confronted with these impossible choices, do you stay silent and comply to try to avoid some unknown, uncertain, huge threat? Or 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.”
Watch:
BREAKING: Mayor Wu responds to the Trump admin’s sanctuary crackdown.
She says Boston will not back down and will not stop shielding illegals
She goes onto call the Trump administration a failure and says her city is the ‘safest major city in America’
Watch below 👇 pic.twitter.com/CuRiTlLxYO
— Bostonians Against Mayor Wu (@AntiWuCoalition) August 19, 2025
Boston allegedly being “one of the nation’s safest cities” is a highly debatable point when one considers the number of violent criminal illegal immigrants whom Wu and her city’s sanctuary policies have protected in the name of “diversity” and “tolerance.”
Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin, who extensively covered the Biden border crisis and who has also embedded with ICE and border patrol agents during sweeps and patrols, shared a list of some of them, along with their alleged offenses, on X:
– Turkish illegal alien Bilal Karayigit, arrested by Boston PD for raping a Massachusetts resident over the age of 14. His ICE detainer was ignored & he was released into the community.
– Dominican illegal alien Julio Soto-Heredia charged in Boston w/ fentanyl trafficking & possession of a gun, & wanted in the Dominican Republic for firearms trafficking. Released from local custody with no ICE cooperation.
– Dominican illegal alien Gregori Thomas Romero, arrested by Boston PD for assault to rape, assault with a deadly weapon, and strangulation suffocation. Released from custody with no ICE cooperation.
– Guatemalan illegal alien Sostenes Perez-Lopez, arrested in Boston for the sexual assault of a child & released from local custody with ICE’s detainer ignored by the Boston municipal court.
– MS-13 gang member/Guatemalan illegal alien Luis Adolfo Guerra-Perez charged in Boston w/ possession of a high capacity weapon & drugs & released into the community w/ ICE’s detainer ignored.
– Dominican illegal alien Daniel Encarnacion-Sanchez, arrested by Boston PD for heroin trafficking & assault on a police officer. Released the very next day with no cooperation with ICE.
– Dominican illegal alien sex offender arrested by Boston PD for indecent assault & gross lewdness. ICE says they attempted to place a detainer on him but Boston was “uncooperative” and he was released from local custody.
– Haitian illegal alien gang member Jean Quely Charles, who has 17 criminal convictions since 2022, arrested by ICE in Boston while screaming “F**k Trump” to our cameras.
MORE:
– MS-13 gang member/Guatemalan illegal alien Luis Adolfo Guerra-Perez charged in Boston w/ possession of a high capacity weapon & drugs & released into the community w/ ICE’s detainer ignored.
– Dominican illegal alien Daniel Encarnacion-Sanchez, arrested by Boston PD… pic.twitter.com/DTdzWrHPce
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 19, 2025
Later, Melugin also shared that “Every ride along I’ve done with ICE in Boston has resulted in the arrest of illegal alien child rapists, murderers, etc, all of whom were wandering freely.”
More, including several illegal aliens charged with child rape arrested by ICE Boston while we were with them in a single morning.https://t.co/j4914Nl0T4
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 19, 2025
Read more from LI:
- Illegal Aliens Charged With Sexual Assault of Children in MA Are Being Released With Low Bail
- Illegal Immigrant Suspect in Murder of Massachusetts Restaurant Owner Puts Gov. Healey in Hot Seat
And just as border czar Tom Homan pledged earlier this year to ramp up immigration sweeps in Boston in the face of Wu announcing they would not work with ICE, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is saying the zone will be flooded:
Asked by [Boston talk radio host Howie] Carr if ICE was planning to “surge” the city of Boston akin to President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, D.C, where ICE agents have reportedly appeared alongside the National Guard and federal agents, Lyons said there would be a larger presence in Boston following Wu’s remarks on Tuesday.
“We’re definitely going to … flood the zone, especially in sanctuary jurisdictions,” Lyons said. “Boston and Massachusetts decided to say that they wanted to stay sanctuary. Sanctuary does not mean safer streets. It means more criminal aliens out and about the neighborhood. But 100%, you will see a larger ICE presence.”
We will, of course, keep you posted.
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another city
another lost cause for maga
Talk is cheap, but the first time the City of Boston fails to follow Federal law regarding cooperation with immigration enforcement Mayor Wu should arrested and hauled off in shackles.
And what “Federal law” is that, exactly? Far as I know there’s no “Federal law” that forces local officials to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. So Blondie Bondi can send Wu and the rest all the demand letters she wants but there’s nothing Bondi can do if they just give her the middle-finger salute and continue on as they are doing. As long as they don’t take an active role in any of it (like Judge Dugan) there’s nothing that Bondi can do.
oh, Blondie could make something up like obstruction of justice
If local authorities actively obstruct federal law enforcement and protect the illegals from the feds then she’s got a problem.
The actual statutes were included in the letter Bondi sent out.
Not only is there no such federal law, there can’t be. The constitution forbids it. So any act of congress that purports to require cooperation is not a law. So long as the city does not actively obstruct ICE, it’s on solid legal grounds and Bondi’s threats are empty. Refusal to assist is not obstruction. This is black-letter law that has been upheld by the courts for over 200 years.
“does not ACTIVELY obstruct” is the KEY and it will happen as seen by the “Judges” slipping ILLEGALS out of their Courtrooms. The FAILURE to HONOR an ICE Detainer is ACTIVELY OBSTRUCTION and should be treated as such! Cities cannot just IGNORE FEDERAL LAWS! This leftist crap needs to end – maybe it’s time for ICE to just surround all the Courthouses and Jails in Boston if they’re not “allowed” to enter! I’m sure all the butt hurt leftists will be – butt hurt, but aren’t they always??
BLS, you’re full of BS.
That has happened exactly twice in the last ten years, and neither one was in a sanctuary city/state. And both judges were criminally charged. The first one got off because she didn’t know ICE was looking for the person. The second one knew, and won’t get off. There have been no instances whatsoever of any officer of a sanctuary city/state doing anything like that.
Bzzzt. Is English not your native language? Or are you just stupid? How can not doing something be active anything? ICE detainers are requests, and no one is ever under any obligation to honor them, unless state laws says otherwise.
Cities cannot just IGNORE FEDERAL LAWS! There is no law requiring cooperation, because there can’t be. The constitution forbids such laws.
So if Congress goes ahead and makes such a purported law, then YES, all cities CAN AND SHOULD ignore it. It’s their CIVIC DUTY to ignore it. The oath they swore to the constitution REQUIRES them to ignore it. But that’s all hypothetical, because Congress has not passed any such laws.
They have no right to do that. That would make them criminals. If they do something like that then the people of Boston would be 100% justified in shooting them all.
A strange orange cloud forms on the horizon accompanied by the sound of spoons stirring furiously in glassware.
You got it…the Wu Tang Clan doth arrive!
With emphasis on Protect Ya Neck and Shimmy Shimmy Ya.
I’m waiting for Milhouse to weigh in before I come to a wrong conclusion.
Cool. If City leadership chooses not to cooperate with Feds by holding the criminal illegal aliens in their custody for pick up by ICE that doesn’t stop enforcement, it simply shifts the location of enforcement from a jail to the streets of Boston… so no whining. Start setting up Immigration Checkpoints in Boston. Definitely need a couple for downtown business district and residential districts. Need them along commuter highways. Logan Airport access is a must for a checkpoint as is the ‘big dig’ tunnel. Need lots of ICE presence in/around MBTA access points. Lots of workplace immigration enforcement in the Boston Seaport revitalization area at construction sites, restaurants. hotels. Then there’s the need for an audit of all State administered programs using Federal funds to ensure non eligible aliens aren’t being allowed to unlawfully access these programs. For that matter a check of the voter registration data by DoJ is probably a good idea to ensure no ineligible aliens are registered to vote. Same for DMV since the CA CDL incident b/c you just can’t be too careful and as we’ve been repeatedly lectured ‘if it saves one life’ then it is totes cool with d/prog.
Yes to all of this. That’s how it works. The city is entitled to refuse to assist ICE in any way. It is not entitled to actively obstruct ICE officers going about their business of enforcing US law.
TBH I don’t believe the locals are entitled to simply ignore detainees for criminal aliens they already have in custody (I know you disagree). At least not without a run past a federal trial to see if a jury finds that action to meet the threshold of ‘harboring’ or ‘shielding from detection’ that illegal alien. It’s entirely possible that a federal jury in one case would find for the defendant while in other cases for the prosecution but I don’t see why a jury shouldn’t have a crack at it.
If the action requested by the Feds is something the local govt already routinely does, hold and transfer prisoners to Fed custody, and not a totally separate, unrelated, novel act then I really don’t see how it can be construed to commandeer. Especially since refusing seems to meet the threshold for a Federal crime of harboring/shielding.
That’s not how it works. Just because a city used to extend a certain courtesy to the feds doesn’t mean it must keep doing so forever. Or that it may not be selective in when it does so and when it doesn’t.
Every argument you make was already made by the feds 200 years ago, to force states to cooperate with the slavecatchers. And the courts were having none of it. States were not only allowed to refuse the slavecatchers any assistance whatsoever, they were even allowed to ban all state and local government employees from voluntarily assisting. As far as I know they weren’t allowed to ban private people from assisting, which means California’s law goes too far; but most sanctuary cities/states don’t try to do that.
There is no piercing the inscrutable oriental mind. Perhaps Trump can woo her.
Speaking as someone who shares Asian descent with Wu, it is not a matter of being inscrutable. It is a matter of her being an enemy of the country and the rule of law.
Subotai Bahadur
My guess is she wasn’t born in America
You’re correct. She was born in Chigago.
OK. That sounds like an open invitation to “Find Out”.
Mayor Wu is truly a honest Democrat.
oxymoron
The video of the horrible Mariachi band should provide some fun fodder for the Republicans. Why does the left feel the need to sing at protests, especially when they do it so poorly.
Can someone explain to me how any or all of these ‘released’ actions for these violent criminals are not aiding & abetting these criminals? Collusion w/ these criminals? Conspiracy to commit? Depraved indiffence to the victims in particular, and public safety in general?
Please explain how the above are not crimes which Wu and her accomplices should be arrested for enabling those below. Any one?
“…heroin trafficking & assault on a police officer. Released the very next day…”
“…charged w/ possession of a high capacity weapon & drugs and released…”
“…arrested for the sexual assault of a child & released…”
“…arrested for assault to rape, assault with a deadly weapon, and strangulation suffocation. Released from custody…”
“…arrested for raping a Massachusetts resident over the age of 14… and he was released…”
Because the city gave these criminals no aid in committing their crimes. It had no knowledge that they were going to commit those crimes, and gave them no assistance in doing so.
It held them for their previous crimes for as long as the law said it should, and then it released them, as it was required to do. It could have held them for ICE, but it chose not to, as was its right.
Didn’t we fight a civil war over state nullification of federal law? Now it’s city nullification. Once again initiated by Democrats.
DemoncRats never change their stripes.
No, we didn’t. The nullification crisis was 30 years before the Civil War, and was settled peacefully. The Civil War had no connection with it.
No, it isn’t. The city is not nullifying anything. It’s exercising the same constitutional right that the northern states did in the pre-civil-war era.
Why is it that DemoncRats like to protect criminal illegal aliens and not law abiding American citizens?
This is embarrassing and why we can’t have nice things, What is wrong with these people? Seriously, I very much wish they would get victimized themselves by the violent illegals they protect but they have so much armed protection that it isn’t likely to happen.
They represent a culture whose fundamental principles are different ours. We are not a nation divided by politics, we are a nation divided by culture. Politics, are incidental.
This woman has long, deep ties to the Chinese Communist government. There’s been reporting by outlets like DailyCaller that shows significant campaign contributions from Chicom intelligence officers. I don’t know why she’s not the subject of a thorough counter-espionage investigation.
This is the first I’ve heard of such an accusation. Yeah, she’s another nutty woke Massachusetts Democrat, but where did you get credible claims she has ties to the CCP? I’m not sure that the DailyCaller is a credible source by itself.
No idea why you believe the Daily Caller isn’t a ‘credible source by itself. They’ve built something of a repuation for themselves in a number of areas. But, they’ve been particularly successful in breaking stories about public corrpution. This is what they’ve put together on Yu with respect to her ‘curious’ fundraising ties to members of the Chinese Communist Party.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/09/exclusive-michelle-wu-boston-city-hall-ccp/
So is Cocaine Mitch’s wife. Nothing ever became of that anymore than Fang Fang.
Consider the timeline. Wu must feel protected. She makes these comments while Holder and Obama are on Martha’s Vineyard fundraising for their national gerrymandering find.
I’m glad her people are not citizens of the US but illegal aliens. Good to know.
Notorious violation of 8USC 1324. When will we see any actions?
No, it is not a violation. States (and therefore cities, who derive their powers from their states) cannot be compelled to cooperate with Congress’s wishes. Any law that purports to compel them is automatically invalid. This is one of the fundamental freedoms on which the USA is founded, and attacking it is an attack on the USA’s very legitimacy.
Seems obstruction of justice-y. Will she be charged?
No.
On the contrary, it’s exercising a constitutional right. Charging her for it would be unconstitutional.
Mayor Sum Ting Wong.