As ICE launches a brand new surge of deportations within the Massachusetts area, Mayor Michelle Wu stated Boston is readying to take authorized motion if the federal operation violates any legal guidelines.
“We expect that federal law enforcement will abide by the constitution and laws of this City, Commonwealth, and country, and we are prepared to take legal action at any evidence to the contrary,” Wu stated in a press release responding to the newest surge Sunday.
The most recent surge of immigration enforcement, dubbed “Operation Patriot 2.0,” had launched in unspecified areas of the state as of Thursday, ICE Performing Director Todd Lyons said. The operation is a comply with as much as a surge in Massachusetts beginning in Might, which reportedly resulted in almost 1,500 immigration arrests.
As of Saturday, over 100 folks had been arrested by federal regulation enforcement as part of Operation Patriot 2.0, ICE officers said. The federal company didn’t instantly state how lengthy the operation will final, what number of brokers are concerned, or which space of the state are being focused.
The most recent surge reportedly entails help from the Division of Justice, Drug Enforcement Company, Diplomatic Safety and extra federal companies. ICE officers have said they’re concentrating on immigrants within the nation illegally who’ve a prison report.
Wu didn’t specify what potential authorized motion towards the federal regulation enforcement might appear like Sunday.
On Thursday, the Justice Division additionally filed a lawsuit towards Boston, Wu and the native police division in search of to negate town’s Belief Act, a 2014 metropolis regulation limiting native cooperation with federal immigration actions. In a launch following the lawsuit, Legal professional Common Pam Bondi referred to as Boston “among the worst sanctuary offenders in America.”
Wu reiterated Sunday that, “as ordered in the Boston Trust Act, no Boston police or local resources will be co-opted into federal immigration enforcement and their mass deportation agenda.”
The mayor spoke out towards ICE actions within the area Sunday.
“For months, ICE has refused to provide any information about their activities in Boston and refuses to issue warrants, while we hear reports of ICE agents taking parents as they are dropping their kids off at school,” stated Wu. “That does not make our community safer.”
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