It’s wealthy of Mayor Michelle Wu to demonize Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers as “secret police” when she leads the least clear administration in fashionable Boston historical past.
She gained’t launch something about her personal police. We’re nonetheless ready for the police report on the deadly Hyde Park bus accident.
Wu’s administration, particularly Boston Police, gained’t even adjust to the general public data regulation, selectively releases physique digicam footage of arrests and arbitrarily redacts police experiences.
Then she has the gall to say ICE is the key police.
“People are terrified for their lives and for their neighbors,” Wu stated throughout a go to to considered one of her “safe” locations – public radio final Friday. “Folks getting snatched off the streets by secret police who are wearing masks, who can offer no justification for why certain people are being taken and then detained.”
Wu’s feedback should have stung U.S. Lawyer Leah Foley, although she waited for a couple of days to reply, accusing the mayor of drumming up “false narratives” about what ICE does.
“Referring to federal agents as ‘secret police’ is offensive,” Foley stated within the video posted on X. “There are no secret police. ICE agents, along with other federal law enforcement partners, are making immigration arrests. That is no secret. They are arresting individuals who are here illegally, which is a violation of federal law. Every enforcement action is conducted within the bounds of the Constitution and our laws with oversight, legal justification and accountability. To claim otherwise is a gross misrepresentation and a disservice to the public.”
And there’s a cause ICE brokers should put on masks. It’s as a result of Democratic activists are doxxing them and their households, making a harmful scenario.
Wu ought to know higher. She presides over her personal police division, which additionally does a outstanding job given the hoops and howls of protests they need to endure.
However good to know Wu has not misplaced her “defund the police” extremist views on regulation enforcement, which she has intentionally hid ever since she was elected mayor and pretended to be a pal of police.
Even Gov. Maura Healey hasn’t gone this far – equating ICE to some type of Nazi police power sneaking round clutching harmless individuals in the midst of the evening.
Wu has now made ICE brokers a goal of potential violence, inciting the general public, which Foley rightly identified in a video she launched on Wednesday.
If an ICE agent – who has the facility of arrest and is simply doing their job implementing the regulation – will get injured or threatened it’s now on Wu.
The query is, at what level will rank and file Boston law enforcement officials communicate out?
They’re watching their commander-in-chief undercut regulation enforcement and put brokers in peril due to her political opportunism.
However solely Foley has the braveness to problem Wu and ensure her rhetoric doesn’t go unchallenged. It’s a refreshing change from previous U.S. attorneys like Rachael Rollins.
Foley has demonstrated she’s not a political hack or a pushover.
If solely Boston law enforcement officials had the identical braveness to tackle Wu – although they’d in all probability be suspended in the event that they tried.
