East Coast mayor receives scathing native backlash after her remarks about unlawful migrants

Locals are slamming Boston’s Democratic mayor for seemingly prioritizing left-wing politics over safety after reiterating that the city ‘stands with immigrants.’ 

Michelle Wu previously said that Boston would not cooperate with ICE immigration enforcement and delivered a ‘State of the City’ address on Wednesday bolstering her stance against the deportations.

Wu told immigrants of Boston that all immigrants – apparently including illegal ones – ‘belong here.’ 

She has faced backlash from local residents and leaders, with some claiming that Wu’s policies ‘prioritize political agendas over the safety of Boston residents.’

Wu said in her address that she visited Washington, DC, two weeks beforehand and addressed questions from Congress about Boston’s inner workings. 

‘It might have been my voice speaking into the microphone that day, but it was 700,000 voices that gave Congress their answer: This is our city.’ 

She discussed her pleasure in seeing some of the protests happening in Boston against the militant deportations and described the city as a ‘family’ that sticks together including illegal immigrants, Fox News reported. 

‘No one tells Boston how to take care of our own, not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies,’ Wu said, referencing Trump. 

‘We are a city where the Irish coffee is strong, and our opinions are stronger,’ she said. ‘We may not always agree or see eye-to-eye, but at the end of the day, we are a family.’

‘If you come for one of us, you will get all of us. We are a city that knows our strength is each other, and we will defend the people we love with all that we’ve got. When the weight of the world presses down, Boston stands up.’ 

However, Wu’s stance attracted scathing backlash from local leaders, one such dubbed the deportations as ‘critical progress.’ 

Massachusetts GOP spokesperson Logan Trupiano told Fox News that ‘there is simply no justifiable reason for her to stand in the way of this critical progress.’ 

Trupiano further added that ‘polling consistently shows that the majority of Americans support these efforts.’ 

‘Mayor Wu must move beyond fearmongering and mischaracterization of ICE and federal authorities,’ he added. ‘The city’s sanctuary policies have led to the release of dangerous individuals back into our communities, undermining public trust and security.’ 

Trupiano pointed out that among ICE’s arrests have been child predators, drug dealers, and gun runners – ‘Individuals responsible for heinous crimes that threaten public safety,’ he said. 

‘Given the recent arrests made by ICE in Massachusetts and Boston, it is hard to understand why Mayor Wu continues to oppose the Trump administration’s efforts,’ he added. 

A resident and former migrant shelter director, Jon Fetherston, told Fox News that Wu’s policies ‘prioritize political agendas over the safety of Boston residents’ and have ’emboldened criminal networks, making our communities more dangerous.’ 

He added that Wu’s ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ has ‘made all of us unsafe, especially woman and children.’ 

Wu not only received backlash from locals but received a statement from the White House entitled ‘Boston’s Radical Mayor Puts Violent Criminal Illegal Aliens First.’ 

The statement slammed the Boston mayor for having ‘doubled down on giving sanctuary to violent criminal illegal immigrants,’ the outlet reported. 

It added examples of ICE arrests made within the city, including gang members accused of various crimes. 

‘This begs the question: Why is Mayor Wu intent on defying the will of the American people and obstructing the Trump Administration’s efforts to remove these monsters from our streets?’ the statement concluded. 

Wu vowed in November of last year that she would defy the President’s mass deportation efforts in ‘every possible way.’ 

‘Elections have consequences, and the federal government is responsible for a certain set of actions, and cities – no individual city – can reverse or override some parts of that,’ Wu said on WCVB. 

She cited Boston’s status as a sanctuary city under the Trust Act passed in 2014, which limits cooperation with some federal immigrations laws and prohibits Boston police from cooperating with ICE. 

The Trust Act does allow for cooperation in criminal matters. 

‘We want immigrants to know that it is safe for everyone to be able to feel comfortable reaching out for emergency services, to report a crime, to ask for help, and generally, to be part of our community,’ she said at the time. 

Upon Trump’s entrance into his second term in office, he began to fulfill his promise to crack down on illegal immigration almost immediately. 

The president has now seemingly gone ‘nuclear’ on the migrant crisis by allowing the military to take control of the ‘buffer zone’ near the Southern border with Mexico.

Trump’s ambitious plan would turn the 60-foot-deep buffer zone into a military installation at the border and allow US troops to temporarily hold migrants who cross over into the America.

A defense official told The Washington Post that the migrants would be held until legally detained by civilian law enforcement.

Now, Trump’s homeland security team is reportedly set to announce plans to take greater control over the partition in a section in New Mexico.

If the initial plan is termed a success by the administration, officials believe the zone would eventually stretch west to California.

The designation would allow the Pentagon to deploy resources from its massive $800 billion budget on the border crackdown.

The military is largely prohibited by federal law from many law enforcement duties by the Posse Comitatus Act.

Trump has gotten around the law during his second term by using Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain migrants and then moving them.

‘It’s very, very careful on that wording. It’s not ‘detention’ because once you go into detention it has the connotations of being detained for arrest. This is holding for civilian law enforcement,’ a Defense official said.

In the first two weeks of February, ICE detained more than 1,800 migrants with criminal convictions or with pending criminal charges against them.

This represents 59 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants taken into ICE custody from early February to the middle of the month, according to data obtained by NBC News.

Meanwhile, the other 41 percent of the 4,422 illegal immigrants brought into ICE custody this month are not criminals.

Trump’s stance is that all migrants in the US without documentation are criminals because they illegally entered or illegally remained in the country.