Boston is preparing for a potential surge in immigration enforcement following threats from Trump administration officials, with reports suggesting the action could occur as soon as next month.Citing unnamed sources, Politico reported the planned surge would involve Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel. The report said the blitz could happen “in the coming weeks.” “I imagine every mayor of every major city is having to make preparations,” Wu said. “ICE agents are doing what they got to do to make this country safe again,” Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, said Thursday. Additionally, Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, vowed to “flood the zone” in Boston with federal immigration enforcement during a recent radio interview.If true, the surge would be a significant escalation in a long immigration policy feud between Wu and the White House.Earlier this month, Wu was one of 31 mayors from across the country who received letters from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi warning communities to identify sanctuary city policies. Wu’s response pledged that Boston “will not back down.” Boston has the Trust Act, which prevents local police from detaining immigrants to be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents unless there is a criminal warrant issued for their arrest. Massachusetts authorities are also subject to a 2017 ruling from the Supreme Judicial Court that found the state law “provides no authority for Massachusetts court officers to arrest and hold an individual solely on the basis of a Federal civil immigration detainer.” “Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law,” Wu said Friday.The National Guard has already been deployed in Washington, D.C., for weeks, and other major cities are resisting the threatened expansion of these efforts.”We’re going to take the assets we have to sanctuary cities where we know they’re releasing illegal aliens to the streets every day,” Homan said. Wu asserts that Boston’s crime statistics do not warrant federal intervention.”We are the safest major city in the country because all our community members know that they are part of how we keep the entire community safe,” Wu said. Wu has previously traded barbs with Homan and testified before a Republican-led congressional hearing about sanctuary city policies.Video below: ICE director vows Boston surge
Boston is preparing for a potential surge in immigration enforcement following threats from Trump administration officials, with reports suggesting the action could occur as soon as next month.
Citing unnamed sources, Politico reported the planned surge would involve Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel. The report said the blitz could happen “in the coming weeks.”
“I imagine every mayor of every major city is having to make preparations,” Wu said.
“ICE agents are doing what they got to do to make this country safe again,” Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, said Thursday.
Additionally, Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, vowed to “flood the zone” in Boston with federal immigration enforcement during a recent radio interview.
If true, the surge would be a significant escalation in a long immigration policy feud between Wu and the White House.
Earlier this month, Wu was one of 31 mayors from across the country who received letters from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi warning communities to identify sanctuary city policies. Wu’s response pledged that Boston “will not back down.”
Boston has the Trust Act, which prevents local police from detaining immigrants to be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents unless there is a criminal warrant issued for their arrest. Massachusetts authorities are also subject to a 2017 ruling from the Supreme Judicial Court that found the state law “provides no authority for Massachusetts court officers to arrest and hold an individual solely on the basis of a Federal civil immigration detainer.”
“Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law,” Wu said Friday.
The National Guard has already been deployed in Washington, D.C., for weeks, and other major cities are resisting the threatened expansion of these efforts.
“We’re going to take the assets we have to sanctuary cities where we know they’re releasing illegal aliens to the streets every day,” Homan said.
Wu asserts that Boston’s crime statistics do not warrant federal intervention.
“We are the safest major city in the country because all our community members know that they are part of how we keep the entire community safe,” Wu said.
Wu has previously traded barbs with Homan and testified before a Republican-led congressional hearing about sanctuary city policies.
Video below: ICE director vows Boston surge