Federal immigration brokers are working in Larger Boston at present “in support of Patriot 2.0,” ICE confirmed to the Herald.
Patriot 2.0 was launched every week in the past as a “result of the sanctuary policies here within the Commonwealth, specifically like the city of Boston,” native ICE/ERO Deputy Director David Wesling advised the Herald throughout a sweep final week.
Advocates are reporting an elevated presence of unmarked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement autos sitting in parking heaps and different public areas all through immigrant communities, the place brokers appeared to focus on work vans, the Associted Press is reporting.
The AP added one man captured a video of three landscapers who had been engaged on the Saugus City Corridor property being arrested after brokers smashed their truck window.
Simply north of Boston, the town of Everett canceled its annual Hispanic Heritage Month competition after its mayor stated it wouldn’t be proper to “hold a celebration at a time when community members may not feel safe attending.”
The actions have been praised by public officers like New Hampshire Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte, who signed laws this 12 months banning sanctuary metropolis insurance policies in her state, vowing to not let New Hampshire “go the way of Massachusetts.” ICE this summer season started using a New Hampshire airport about an hour from Boston to move New England detainees.
Trump goals at so-called ‘sanctuaries’
Cities like Boston and Chicago — the place Mayor Brandon Johnson has additionally condemned the Trump administration’s current immigration crackdown, calling it an instance of “tyranny” — have change into targets for enforcement in current days. Trump additionally threatened to probably deploy the Nationwide Guard to Chicago, although he had wavered on a navy deployment final week.
The U.S. Division of Justice on Sept. 4 filed a lawsuit in opposition to Mayor Michelle Wu, the town of Boston and its police division over its sanctuary metropolis insurance policies, claiming they’re interfering with immigration enforcement. In response, Wu accused Trump of “attacking cities to hide his administration’s failures.”
Homeland Safety Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated the Boston surge would give attention to “the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens” residing in Massachusetts.
“Sanctuary policies like those pushed by Mayor Wu not only attract and harbor criminals but protect them at the peril of law-abiding American citizens,” she stated in a press launch early final week, which detailed the arrest of seven people by ICE, together with a 38-year-old man from Guatemala who had beforehand been arrested on assault-related expenses.
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