The Trump administration launched a brand new federal immigration enforcement effort in Massachusetts targeted on deporting criminals who entered the nation illegally, in keeping with the Department of Homeland Security.
“ICE launched ‘Patriot 2.0’ to target the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens living in the state of Massachusetts, following the success of Operation Patriot in May,” a DHS spokesperson informed NCS on Sunday.
The assertion blamed Boston’s Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu for so-called sanctuary metropolis polices that it stated, “not only attract and harbor criminals but also place these public safety threats above the interests of law-abiding American citizens,” vowing that DHS will arrest criminals launched by native authorities.
NCS has reached out to Wu’s workplace for remark.
“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, nowhere is a safe haven for criminal illegal aliens. If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, we will hunt you down, arrest you, deport you, and you will never return,” the assertion continued.
The Justice Department sued Wu earlier this month over Boston’s sanctuary coverage, which limits cooperation with federal immigration efforts.
“What we have seen from ICE and from the administration really isn’t about public safety, it’s about political theater. It’s about a political power grab and an attempt to intimidate,” stated Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey in a Sunday interview with MSNBC.
White House officers informed NCS that the Boston operation, timed in conjunction with the administration’s immigration plans in Chicago, is a sign of its efforts to focus on sanctuary cities extra aggressively in the approaching months.
Both the Boston and Chicago operations are being modeled after the immigration arrests in Los Angeles in June. The president has reserved the correct to name in the National Guard in each cities if a peacekeeping presence is finally wanted, officers stated.
NCS reported final month that Trump administration officers had mentioned a serious immigration enforcement operation in Boston in the approaching weeks, in keeping with two sources conversant in the talks.
These strikes to ramp up deportations in Democratic-led cities come after the Trump administration embraced aggressive enforcement actions earlier this yr in Los Angeles. This week, the division introduced it made 5,000 arrests in the southern California metropolis since June.
Wu faces a main problem on Tuesday from Josh Kraft, who’s the son of New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft. Also on the poll are former Boston police officer Robert Cappucci and group organizer Domingos DaRosa.
Wu and Kraft are Democrats although the place is formally nonpartisan, with all candidates operating on the identical main poll and the highest two vote-getters advancing to the November common election.
NCS’s Alayna Treene and Lauren Mascarenhas contributed to this report.