Border czar Tom Homan says Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu must be thanking the Trump administration for taking unlawful aliens charged with assault and rape off the streets as an alternative of spreading falsehoods.
Homan and the Bay State leaders stay in a verbal sparring as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues an operation that the feds are dubbing “Patriot 2.0.”
In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Healey accused ICE of parking exterior a church at Boston School throughout a Spanish mass over the weekend to “intimidate” attendees. Homan responded, saying the governor’s declare is a “bold-faced lie.”
Below President Trump’s mass deportation push, the feds are allowed to focus on unlawful immigrants at church buildings, faculties and courthouses. Homan instructed reporters in Washington shortly after Healey’s tv look that ICE isn’t conducting operations at Boston-area church buildings.
“Shame on Gov. Healey and Mayor Wu,” the border czar mentioned exterior the White Home. “Shame on both of them. They should be calling the White House, thanking Trump, thanking ICE for making the community safer. Instead, they go on TV and lie about ICE and make these accusations.”
Healey mentioned in her nationwide TV interview that the ICE automobile was parked exterior of Spanish mass at Saint Ignatius of Loyola Parish in Chestnut Hill on Sunday, however Archdiocese of Boston and Boston School spokespeople say that the van was noticed on Saturday.
“ICE agents were parked outside on the street,” the governor mentioned. “Why are they parked outside of a church on a Sunday where people are going to worship and pray? It’s because they’re doing this to intimidate and to create fear.”
This all comes as lots of of immigration brokers from throughout the nation are in Boston and different cities and cities within the Bay State for Patriot 2.0, an operation by which the Herald partially witnessed throughout a ride-along on Saturday morning.
In response to the ICE surge, Mayor Wu has spoken out towards the operation, saying the town is “prepared to take legal action at any evidence” that ICE has violated Constitutional, state or native legal guidelines.
Healey’s feedback on Tuesday morning got here after she mentioned in a nationwide TV interview on Sunday that her workplace was not notified of the surge forward of time and known as the operation a “political power grab and an attempt to intimidate.”
Whereas talking with reporters in D.C., Homan highlighted 4 alleged unlawful immigrants ICE has arrested in Better Boston over the previous few days: one from Guatemala, charged with aggravated rape and assault and battery; one other from Colombia, charged with aggravated assault on a pregnant sufferer; a 3rd from the Dominican Republic, dealing with drug trafficking prices; and a fourth from Guetemala, charged with assault and battery on a baby.
“This is what ICE is doing across the country,” Homan mentioned. “They’re targeting the worst of the worst and making this country safe again.”
Healey and Wu aren’t the one ones expressing outrage over the feds’ renewed immigration enforcement operation. Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne has additionally made her frustration recognized.
“On Friday night and midday Monday, respectively, what appeared to be ICE agents rolled up to the front of the high school & City Hall to take selfies, we’re guessing on the taxpayers’ time and dime,” Ballantyne mentioned in a press release that the Metropolis of Somerville posted on its Fb on Monday. “Meanwhile, while federal employees were busy with a pitiful attempt to troll or intimidate our community — and our kids! — we were busy at work finishing up our final school maintenance checklists to start the new school year, getting ready for the democratic process of our local election, and packing supplies for the annual senior picnic.”
“We look forward to the day when our federal government takes a cue from hard-working cities like Somerville,” she added, “and puts its resources into working for the people, not against them.”
