Radical left Boston Mayor Michelle Wu may soon be receiving the LA treatment after effectively calling the Trump Administration’s bluff on sanctuary city policy while wrapping herself in the flag.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Wu told the Trump Administration to get lost during a press conference on Tuesday and lectured them on the immigration law she was willfully breaking.
“The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is,” Wu crowed to the crowd. “Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures. Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law, and Boston will not back down from who we are and what we stand for.”
Last week, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent letters to the mayors of several sanctuary cities, including Boston, with an ultimatum. She demanded that they commit by today to complying with the Trump Administration’s efforts to enforce federal immigration law or face various consequences, including the loss of federal funds.
“You better be abiding by our federal policies and with our federal law enforcement, because if you aren’t, we’re going to come after you,” she added during a Fox News interview.
Wu also had the gall to invoke the AMERICAN REVOLUTION in her speech, comparing her actions protecting illegals with those of the American colonials who defeated a tyrannical regime to gain their independence.
“We are gathered here today to show you who we are in Boston. More than 100 years before your home state was founded, Bostonians were across the street in Faneuil Hall, setting the foundation for our democracy and rule of law,” Wu said. “One hundred years before that, Bostonians were founding the first public school and public park in the country.”
“This has always been a city of revolution, of innovation, of standing up for the public good and never bowing down to tyranny,” she continued. “With me today, our fellow public servants and veterans, public safety and faith leaders, civil rights advocates, and labor union members, teachers and business owners, entrepreneurs and artists, youth and seniors.”
Now, a great show of force is about to arrive in Beantown. As The New York Post reported, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons vowed to “flood” the city following Wu’s defiant statement.
He also noted that such a move will mean safer neighborhoods.
“We’re definitely going to flood the zone, especially in sanctuary jurisdictions,” Lyons told “The Howie Carr Show” on Wednesday.
“Boston and Massachusetts decided to say that they wanted to stay sanctuary. Sanctuary does not mean safer streets,” he added. “It means more criminal aliens out and about the neighborhood. But 100%, you will see a larger ICE presence.”
Lyons also made clear that the Boston law enforcement is eager to work with ICE to clean up the streets and ship out criminal aliens.
“We have so many men and women on the Boston Police Department and other jurisdictions that are so pro-ICE, that want to work with us and that are actually helping us behind the scenes,” he said to Carr.
“That’s what I think local leaders don’t understand, is they need to talk to the men and women on the ground, because … there are so many of these criminal aliens that keep getting released to go out and commit more crimes that the local law enforcement have to deal with. We can take that violent criminal alien instantly out of the neighborhood,” Lyons added.
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