Democrats became the contrarian party when Trump first entered office back in January 2016, and the TDS has only gotten worse. We’re talking about a party that used to care about public health and the food supply. These days, they are entrenched political alarms of Big Pharma and Big Farma regardless of the evidence that this is bad for women, minorities, or children (they don’t care about white people all that much).
The same is true of free speech. While they were always into encroachments via campaign finance reform laws, old Democrats were fine with disagreement, while new ones are more like the East German Stasi.
Immigration was also something they were willing to regulate until they realized that it was a great way to displace voters who were not excited about taxes and big government. These days, your constituents can tell you they are being harmed by open borders, and these politicians don’t seem to care about the consequences. They are stuck on stupid. Their TDS has them insisting they will double down on something voters have told them isn’t working.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is a rare exception. He says he’d be willing to aid and abet the deportation of criminal aliens and others and will help the Trump administration get that done. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, however, is playing the same hand as Massachusetts Governor Healey. Don’t you touch my criminalies! We won’t allow it.
Mayor Adams, if you’re in a hurry, bus yours to Boston. They can put them up at Logan Airport or Motel 6 (they’ve left the light on for you). Community centers, homeless shelters, homes for vets, you name it, Wu and Healey will kick out the Americans and let the gangs plant a flag.
“They can say whatever they want about me, but our public safety record speaks for itself: Boston is the safest major city in America,” the mayor said. “Our homicide rates are among the lowest of any city nationally, and gun violence has been at an all-time historic low over the last two years here in Boston”
The same day, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s field office in Boston announced it arrested two illegal immigrants for forcibly raping children inclding 42-year-old Billy Erney Buitrago-Bustos of Columbia and 21-year-old Mynor Stiven De Paz-Munoz of Guatamala.
An additional migrant, who was convicted of raping a child in Brazil and sentenced to serve 14 years in prison before fleeing to the United States, was also arrested on Thursday.
As for her safe city claim, I can’t find proof of that. Boston appears to be more dangerous than 86% of cities in America. Its murder and rape rates are comparable with the national average but burglary and assault are nearly or more than double the US average.
It is unsafe, and inviting more of that can’t be good for Wu. It certainly will not play well for Governor Healey. And Tom Homann has made it clear he’s not playing games with any of them. And while I’ve not heard him say it, I suspect he’ll be quick to point out that these same players invested oxygen and political capital in protecting the federal government’s primacy regarding immigration (and everything else) until they didn’t. And you can’t have it both ways. Not that it much matters. ICE, CPB, and the other Feds can do plenty without any help from the locals, and there’s another hitch.
Democrats have been very excited about prosecuting people who interfere with or obstruct federal anything. Perhaps, in the name of equity, the Trump administration, at least in this instance, will do them the favor of agreeing, at least until all the criminal aliens are deported.
