Massachusetts is now a bit safer, not due to the state’s government or the “sanctuary” city of Boston, but due to Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) led by Tom “The Hammer” Homan. On Tuesday, it was announced that around 400 illegal immigrants were captured in and around Boston.
ICE disclosed that a significant operation in Massachusetts led to close to 400 arrests, with more than 200 of them being illegal immigrants with serious criminal records or charges.
“The people of the Commonwealth can feel safer as ICE and our federal law enforcement partners have apprehended numerous criminal aliens and taken them off the streets of Massachusetts,” stated Patricia H. Hyde, the acting Field Office Director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston, in a press release.
The operation, which took place between March 18 and March 23, netted the arrests of 370 illegal immigrants in the Boston area. Among those, 205 of the migrants arrested had “significant criminal convictions or charges,” the release noted, including six who were “currently facing charges or convictions for murder, drug trafficking, organized crime, and money laundering.”
Note those numbers: 205 with significant criminal convictions or charges, including six either facing charges or already having been convicted of murder, drug trafficking, organized crime, and money laundering.
These are the people Boston’s Mayor Michelle Wu is defending; these are people she wants to keep in Boston.
The raids came despite Boston’s status as one of several so-called “sanctuary” cities across the country, jurisdictions that restrict local cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Boston’s Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu has doubled down on those policies in recent days, vowing to continue protecting illegal immigrants in the city during her State of the City address last week.
“No one tells Boston how to take care of our own, not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies,” she said.
“You belong here,” she told immigrants.
Here’s the thing, Madam Mayor: The federal government is in charge of immigration policy, not you, and in these matters, the federal Department of Homeland Security and ICE have jurisdiction anywhere in the United States. Boston was born facing down armed invaders under the control of a foreign tyrant, and now you propose to allow armed invaders under no control to maintain a presence in one of America’s most historic cities.
They don’t belong here. And thanks to ICE, they will be leaving.
