The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Safety focused Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s stance on immigration coverage following an ICE arrest of an alleged pedophile with greater than 20 prices.
“Does Boston’s Mayor Michelle Wu think these pedophiles are above the law? Imagine what our ICE officers could do without Sanctuary City policies that protect illegal alien criminals including child predators, murders, and rapists,” Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X Friday morning.
The submit included an image of Gilberto Avila-Jara, 64, who federal brokers arrested on April 1. The arrest was made by brokers of the New England subject places of work of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Avila-Jara was arrested in Lawrence, not Boston, based on the arresting companies, regardless of Noem’s submit.
The companies offered no additional particulars on Avila-Jara in addition to the two-sentence submit on X.
Noem’s submit is the most recent in an extended line of statements from members of the President Trump administration who cope with immigration that concentrate on Massachusetts, Boston or Wu particularly. The administration has appeared to aim to make Boston its instance of failed “sanctuary city” insurance policies.
Gov. Maura Healey has stated that Trump border czar Tom Homan has a “fixation” on Massachusetts. He has promised to deliver “hell” to Boston.
President Donald Trump additionally introduced Thursday sanctuary metropolis “Death Traps” will lose all federal funding going ahead. No additional particulars had been divulged. Amherst, Boston, Cambridge, Harmony, Chelsea, Lawrence, Newton, Northampton, and Somerville all qualify as sanctuary cities.
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