In the famously liberal state, where Kamala Harris defeated Trump 61%-36%, where the state’s attorney general has vowed that state and local cops won’t be “commandeered” for federal immigration enforcement.
Mirroring that liberal view on illegal immigration, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox has announced he will not honor detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, for inmates.
"We don’t enforce civil detainers regarding federal immigration law,” Cox told an ABC News affiliate, WCVB5. “It's defined here in the state, and that’s just how it works."
The detainer keeps an inmate behind bars until ICE agents can take custody, but Cox said the civil detainer is not honored like a criminal warrant by the Boston Police Department because the detainer is “immigration-related.”
Cox stood his ground in that Feb. 16 interview even after ICE made arrests in Boston in mid-January, just days after Donald Trump’s inauguration.
During those raids, a Fox News crew followed ICE agents and witnessed eight arrests. One of the arrests was an MS-13 gang member with a detainer. The gang member had been released by Boston Police Department after it ignored the ICE detainer for him.
"It's as if the Biden administration is still here in Massachusetts,” Brian Camenker, who leads MassResistance, tells AFN. “At least we got rid of it nationally but it's just horrible here.”
Pointing to the ICE raids, and more recently to tough talk from border czar Tom Homan, Camenker predicts the federal government isn’t playing around.
Homan told the recent CPAC crowd he read a story in which Commissioner Cox vowed the Boston Police Department won’t help ICE. “I’m coming to Boston,” Homan said, “and I’m bringing H--- with me.”
Homan also pointed out Boston’s sanctuary policy has allowed two accused child rapists to go free without being in custody. For allowing that, he said, Cox should take off his police badge and put it in a drawer.
“Because you became a politician. You forgot what it’s like to be a cop,” Homan told CPAC.
Camenker predicts ICE agents will swoop into Boston soon with massive raids, and he says there are city officials who deserve to be arrested, too.
“At least that's what I hope will happen,” he says.
Boston's current mayor is Michelle Wu, a far-left Democrat. She is famous for, among other things, giving a list of 15 political enemies to Boston police, then blaming police when the list was made public. The list included a city council candidate, members of a grassroots watchdog group, and a police sergeant who was fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.
John Kraft, a fellow Democrat, has announced he is challenging Wu. Kraft is the the son of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. The non-partisan primary election is Sept. 9.
