Boston was not the only city targeted this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, but it received the most free publicity from Fox News. A camera crew followed the heavily-armed officers as they cuffed murder suspects, rape suspects, an illegal alien with an Interpol warrant, and multiple MS-13 gang members.
Bill Melugin, a Fox News correspondent, said he witnessed eight arrests in all, including an MS-13 gang member who had been released one day earlier after local authorities ignored an ICE detainer for him.
The ICE office overseeing the Boston arrests is Boston Enforcement and Removal Operations, or Boston ERO.
Patricia Hyde, the acting field director for Boston ERO, told Fox News the successful arrests removed “several significant public safety threats out of our communities.”
One example was Santo Raul Ramirez-Lara, 43, a citizen of the Dominican Republic. He has been arrested and charged with possession of cocaine and heroin, with intent to distribute. He has also be deported four previous times going back to 2002, according to Boston ERO.
Brian Camenker, president of MassResistance, tells AFN only far-left Democrats are “losing their minds” over the arrests and planned deportations. Most normal-thinking people, he says, are saying it’s past time to deport the city’s violent criminals.
“Even your average leftist is not upset at this,” he says.
That is because the crimes the illegal aliens have committed in and around the city are “heinous,” Camenker says, including child rapes, selling illegal drugs, and gun-related crimes.
In the Nov. 5 presidential election, Kamala Harris won Massachusetts with a lop-sided 61%-36% over Trump. In Boston, Harris won 76%-19%.
In a Boston Herald news story about the ICE arrests, a left-wing immigrant activist said the raids are a “clear example” the Trump administration “thrives off fear.”
The activist, Annie Gonzalez, said the mix of ICE agents with a Fox News camera crew “make good headlines for their propaganda.”
If she said anything positive about deporting violent criminals, it did not appear in the Boston Herald story.
Camenker says the main problem is the liberals in power, such as the Massachusetts attorney general who vowed that local and state law enforcement won’t be “commandeered for federal immigration enforcement.”
Attorney General Andrea Campbell issued that statement along with her Democrat counterparts from 10 other states.
Not everyone with a badge views ICE and the Trump administration as a political enemy. The press release from Boston ERO praised Dorchester District Court for honoring the detainer for Ramirez-Lara. By honoring that detainer, that meant ICE agents took him into custody from a jail cell instead of busting through a door in a SWAT-like raid.
“I think the average people here are just like we've really had enough of it. Time to go home,” Camenker says.
