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.[…]”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.”
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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.”
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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.
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.”
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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.
– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –
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