Boston mayor faces warmth over sanctuary metropolis insurance policies as Patriots proprietor’s son goes on offensive

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will take questions concerning sanctuary metropolis insurance policies from Congress on Wednesday.

Since President Donald Trump’s 2024 electoral victory, Wu has doubled down on Boston’s sanctuary metropolis standing, saying police and metropolis officers won’t help federal authorities with deportations.

“Boston continues to expertise crime, drug exercise, and human trafficking stemming from [migrant] amenities,” Jon Fetherston, a former Massachusetts migrant shelter director, advised Fox Information Digital. “Whereas Mayor Wu enjoys robust backing from her base, largely influenced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren … residents and surrounding communities are pissed off and embarrassed by her management.”

Amy Carnevale, chair of the state’s Republican Occasion, MassGOP, advised Fox Information Digital that she expects Wu to speak about “how Boston is a safer metropolis than” New York Metropolis, Denver and Chicago, which will even be beneath a congressional microscope Wednesday as leaders from all 4 cities are known as to testify. 

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally in help of the statewide Massachusetts Democratic ticket, Nov. 2, 2022, in Boston.  (AP Picture/Mary Schwalm, File)

“However that is all relative. I imply, one homicide, one rape, one violent crime is one too many,” Carnevale mentioned. “We do have many violent crimes dedicated in Boston by … unlawful aliens. And the truth that she has declared Boston to be a sanctuary metropolis is absolutely an invite to additional felony aliens coming into the town, jeopardizing the protection of residents.”

Below the Boston Belief Act, enacted in 2014 and amended in 2019, the Boston Police Division could “collaborate with ICE-HSI” on sure crimes, together with “human trafficking, youngster exploitation, drug and weapons trafficking, and cybercrimes.”

The act additionally states, nonetheless, that Boston police won’t ask folks about immigration standing, share data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, make arrests based mostly on ICE warrants or switch folks into ICE custody.

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“I preserve saying Boston follows the legal guidelines. We’re going to preserve doing what we do as a result of we’re in full compliance with the legal guidelines, which say that municipal officers and municipal police departments have authority over implementing crimes on the native stage in protecting everybody of their group protected,” Wu lately advised WBUR. “Immigration falls beneath the federal authorities and federal officers. It isn’t the purview of metropolis officers to be concerned in doing the job of the federal authorities, and it’s not the federal authorities’s job to what ought to occur on the native stage both.”

In the meantime, New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft’s son, Josh Kraft, who’s operating to switch Wu in November, mentioned in a Feb. 26 assertion that he helps “eradicating violent criminals from our group, wherever they arrive from.”

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Kraft additional voiced his help for the Belief Act and condemned Trump’s plans to curb unlawful immigration and deport felony migrants.

“It’s outrageous to contemplate ICE officers raiding colleges or locations of worship to spherical up undocumented immigrants who are usually not engaged in felony exercise,” Kraft mentioned, referring to a latest Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) directive that rescinds the earlier Biden administration’s pointers stopping ICE and Customs and Border Safety officers from implementing the legislation in “delicate” areas.

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“This motion empowers the courageous women and men in CBP and ICE to implement our immigration legal guidelines and catch felony aliens—together with murderers and rapists—who’ve illegally come into our nation. Criminals will now not have the ability to conceal in America’s colleges and church buildings to keep away from arrest,” a DHS spokesperson mentioned in a Jan. 21 assertion. “The Trump Administration won’t tie the arms of our courageous legislation enforcement, and as an alternative trusts them to make use of frequent sense.”

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ICE Boston arrests a Salvadoran nationwide on Jan. 30, 2025, who was charged with sexually assaulting a Massachusetts resident.  (ICE Boston)

MassGOP submitted a information request to Gov. Maura Healey’s workplace final 12 months “asking for particulars of felony studies from migrant shelters,” Carnevale mentioned. 

“We acquired these outcomes again simply earlier than Christmas, detailing over 1,000 violent felony incidents … which have occurred over the past three years in migrant shelters, that are alleged to be protected havens for people looking for shelter in Massachusetts,” the chair defined.

“These studies had been closely redacted, so we have no idea what number of violent incidents occurred within the metropolis of Boston, and we want to have these numbers and know what Mayor Wu … is doing to get a deal with on violent felony incidents.”

Boston police work on Boylston Road on April 13, 2023. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

Fetherston described migrant shelters as “chaos.”

“Intercourse crimes, rapes of younger ladies, EBT card fraud, mould, bugs, rats and no accessible housing for migrants to maneuver into,” he defined. “… The migrant shelter disaster has impacted faculty, police and fireplace budgets. Academics are pissed off and don’t really feel supported. Public security officers are burned out, as nearly all of departments get known as to the shelters each day.”

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Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles, a Haitian nationwide and alleged gang member with 17 felony convictions in Massachusetts in a two-year span, is pictured after ICE brokers from Boston arrested him. (ICE ERO Boston)

Fetherston additionally famous that he labored at a Marlborough shelter the place a person was accused of impregnating his personal 13-year-old daughter final 12 months. The Maine Wire first broke the story concerning the Haitian migrant, Ronald Joseph, 42, impregnating the lady. Joseph allegedly repeatedly raped his daughter whereas staying at a government-funded migrant shelter at a Vacation Inn in Marlborough.

Eight months after the Maine Wire launched numerous incident studies detailing Joseph’s alleged crimes, authorities arrested the suspect.

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And whereas the problem of migrant crime weighs closely on the hearts and minds of some Boston and Massachusetts residents, it weighs closely on taxpayer pockets as properly.

(Jonathan Wiggs/Boston Globe by way of Getty Pictures)

MassGOP final 12 months revealed its findings that the Massachusetts authorities had spent greater than $1 billion in secrecy” on migrant housing, “leaving Massachusetts residents at nighttime,” Carnevale mentioned in a press release on the time. “They’ve withheld essential data on 600 incidents involving police, fireplace and EMT. Blocking journalists at each flip, the administration has obstructed the stream of knowledge to the general public.”

Wu anticipated to spend $650,000 on preparations for her journey to Congress this week alone, in line with the Boston Herald. Fox Information Digital reached out to Wu’s workplace for remark.

The organizer of an internet marketing campaign towards Wu known as Bostonians Towards Mayor Wu, which has greater than 32,000 followers on X, advised Fox Information Digital on the situation of anonymity that “Bostonians are fed up” with their mayor.

Michelle Wu speaks to supporters after profitable her race for mayor of Boston on November 2, 2021. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

“As you’d count on, Boston could be very woke, and there are nonetheless loads of individuals who help these insurance policies. However the tide is popping quick,” mentioned the organizer, who spoke anonymously out of worry of retaliation. “The governors of Texas and Florida bussing unlawful immigrants to sanctuary cities have opened lots of eyes. Abruptly, it’s not simply an summary subject. It’s actual, it’s costly, and it’s affecting on a regular basis life.”

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The organizer added that “Boston just isn’t safer” due to sanctuary metropolis insurance policies.

“Day after day, you’ll see Boston ICE reporting arrests of unlawful alien youngster predators who had been let onto the streets due to Wu’s sanctuary insurance policies. Town refuses to cooperate with ICE, which implies harmful criminals keep in our communities as an alternative of being deported,” the organizer mentioned.