Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is ‘hunting down’ law-abiding private property owners in the name of protecting criminal illegal migrants.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is threatening private property owners not to lease parking space to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
The mayor sent the letter in response to a public notice from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeking more space to accommodate upcoming immigration enforcement surges in 14 cities, including Boston.
Wu said that renting space to ICE “would constitute an unprovoked and unwarranted escalation, creating potentially significant risks to public safety and halting economic activity across our entire region.”
The operations, which have largely targeted criminal illegal migrants, would make the city less safe, Wu claimed.
She wrote:
ICE’s threats against cities are not new. This federal administration has used ICE surge operations to attack peaceful American cities with deadly and disastrous consequences, from Biddeford, ME to Houston, TX. In February, following the fatal shootings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, MN, I joined together with six other cities across Greater Boston and signed Executive Orders prohibiting ICE from staging its operations on municipal property and parking lots.
“Today, I ask you to join us: Reject any proposition by ICE to facilitate an attack on the people of Boston,” she added.
As a subtle threat, Wu noted she filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out which businesses in the city had offered to partner with DHS.
Citizens, Wu included, are of course free to ask who the federal government is working with on immigration enforcement. Government contracts should be public information.
But the message is clear from the Boston mayor: You better not work with ICE or there will be consequences.
DHS responded to the threats, calling them “unhinged.”