Wu, Boy! Boston Mayor Full of Beans

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Mayor Michelle Wu is definitely good for business from a 'She did/said 
WHAT?!' point of view.

I mean, there are boatloads to write about. Controversies and scandals of 
all sizes have plagued her administration, and yet the mayor, who first 
arrived in the Boston area when she began attending Harvard, somehow still 
enjoys pretty decent approval ratings (right now around in the 41% 
bracket.).

How, I don't know, but that's a Mid-Atlantic/New England thing. Almost to 
a one, these states have cookie-cutter awful governors and big-city mayors 
who keep their jobs with little to no problem.

It had to be a whale of a bummer for the uber-progressive Wu and the 
Boston City Council when Trump vanquished their girl in November. So they 
started laying the groundwork for their resistance efforts before 
Christmas.

A good chunk of that is wrapped around the illegal immigrants the Biden 
administration allowed to flood the country and the many who have found 
their way to Massachusetts and Boston, which are self-described 
'sanctuary' areas. 

The Boston City Council made it official prior to Trump's taking office.


Temps were already starting to heat up at the beginning of the month prior 
to Wu and other mayors of sanctuary cities testifying before Congress. 
Border czar Tom Homan clashed with Wu and Boston Police Commissioner 
Michael Cox over the city's refusal to work with the local Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement (ICE) office regarding detainers and notifications 
concerning criminal illegals in their city.

...President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan teed off against 
Boston’s police commissioner in a speech to the Conservative Political 
Action Conference, saying there are at least nine accused “child rapists” 
in jail who local authorities won’t turn over to U.S. Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement. He promised to come to Boston and “bring hell with 
him.”

The feud escalated during Wu's testimony a few days later. The mayor was 
plenty ticked off about people having the nerve to tell Boston what they 
needed.


And then she ripped Homan up for 'lying' about her city.

'Shame on him,' Wu said.

When Homan heard it afterward, he said he would be sleeping like a baby, 
knowing he was living rent-free in her head.


In the interim, ICE was busy in Wu's peaceful town, no thanks to her 
police force.


And...


Plus...

Eighteen Brazilian Nationals Charged; Over One Hundred Firearms Seized in 
Federal Crackdown on Firearm Trafficking

And one more for good luck.


Mayor Wu is ignoring all that ICE scooping up of her illegal, coddled 
criminals. 

Last night, the mayor gave her State of the City address, and besides 
everything being peachy keen in Beantown, she decided it would be a great 
opportunity to talk some serious smack at the president.

Woof.


She let her citizens know whose side she was fighting for.

YOU BELONG HERE


Stunning. Brave.

And a red flag to a proverbial bull.

In fact, the local CBS station went looking in an effort to debunk Homan's 
claims and, well...turns out the best they could do was prove it was MA 
law in most cases forcing the release of illegal criminals. 

Homan's 'nine child rapists' number held up.

Worse - the answers they received from sheriffs they interviewed supported 
Homan's assertions of an increase in the number of criminal aliens even 
further.

It has been a month since Tom Homan, the Trump administration's Border 
Czar, told an enthusiastic crowd at the Conservative Political Action 
Conference that he was "bringing hell to Boston." 

...WBZ-TV decided to dig into the press releases of Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Massachusetts to see if violent criminals are 
really being released by Cox or other law enforcemen

...In 2017, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in a case 
called Lunn v. Commonwealth that, "Massachusetts law provides no authority 
for Massachusetts court officers to arrest and hold an individual solely 
on the basis of a Federal civil immigration detainer, beyond the time that 
the individual would otherwise be entitled to be released from State 
custody." 

That means sheriff's departments are unable to hold someone after they 
post bail, even if they are wanted by ICE. Sheriffs who want to cooperate 
with ICE say their hands are tied. 

"It's very frustrating for me to know I might have a drug trafficker or a 
violent offender, I call ICE and they're like, we're very busy with a 
couple situations, I can't get there for a few hours. I can't hold them 
right now," said Worcester County Sheriff Lewis Evangelidis. 

At the same time, Evangelidis says his jail has seen an increase in ICE 
detainers placed on inmates. 

"We've seen the detainers triple in the last three years. We were in the 
30s a couple years ago. We exceeded 100 in 2024. To me, that means there 
are more people illegally in the Commonwealth committing crimes," he said.

Is Mayor Wu playing with fire for the cameras?

It's one thing if you've got the numbers on your side, but she doesn't. 
The state of MA has already spent over half a billion dollars (with a 'B') 
on 'tax-payer funded shelters for housing migrant and local families.' 
It's not even the end of March yet. 

Last summer, MA was already hoping for a federal handout. Those Biden-era 
migrant FEMA slush funds are probably doomed. 

...It’s not clear where the funding to cover the shelter and other costs 
will come from, but Healey frequently expresses her strong hope that the 
federal government will soon help replenish the state coffers with funds 
recently appropriated by Congress for the federal emergency shelter 
program run by FEMA.

Federal funding may bail out the Bay State in the short term, but the 
unprecedented influx of migrants engineered by the Biden administration 
will prove to be a significant burden for Massachusetts taxpayers over the 
long run. The cost of temporary housing and shelters is enormous — but it 
pales in comparison to the costs that will accumulate in the future if 
those in the temporary shelters today remain in the Commonwealth for the 
long term. These long-term costs include schooling, social services, 
medical care, public safety, and more. These costs will accrue even if 
these migrants are able to find jobs, whether with a work permit or 
through illicit employment. Our research shows that immigrants generally 
have high labor force participation rates, but because most of the new 
arrivals lack the education or skills needed for an individual or family 
to be self-sufficient in Massachusetts, they will continue to access the 
state’s generous social safety net, much of which is available even to 
illegal immigrants who settle in the state.

So, the state and the city of Boston will bump up against a rock and a 
hard spot shortly. 

It doesn't seem as if it is in their best interest - or prudent - for Wu 
to use a flamethrower when she's standing athwart the combustibles.

Then again, she's the Harvard grad. 

It's her vanity and her bonfire.

Let 'er rip.


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