Many of us grew up with Sesame Street (before HBO bought it and turned it into whatever it is now). I’m not sure how long they went with the ‘These are the people in your neighborhood song‘ but Bob used to sing it and there were postmen and plumbers and stuff. This gallery of local people did not include homeless folks, drug users, or that guy crappin’ on the sidewalk over there.
Check your shoes.
It also didn’t introduce human traffickers, drug runners, cartel gangs, and illegal alien rapists and child molesters. Still, these are the kind of people Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey want in your neighborhood. Yes, yours, not theirs. There are no MS-13 or Tren de Aragua members in Maura Healey’s neighborhood, but both Wu and Healy are “Illegal Criminal Alien Strong*” when it comes to protecting wanted individuals from arrest and deportation from your neighborhood.
*They should get T-shirts.
Massachusetts residents can thank the Trump Admininstration not giving a damn about either of them or the “local jurisdictions [that] refused to honor immigration detainer requests to turn over the offenders and instead chose to release aliens from custody.” ICE went in for them anyway.
U.S. Immigration and Enforcement said it made 370 arrests of undocumented citizens across Boston and Massachusetts — including 205 that ICE said had “significant criminal convictions or charges” — as federal officers conducted what ICE called an “enhanced operation” in the Bay State amid a standoff with state and local officials on immigration enforcement. …
ICE said 205 of those arrested had significant criminal convictions or charges, and six were foreign fugitives currently facing charges or convictions for murder, drug trafficking, organized crime, and money laundering.
Officials said they seized approximately 44 kilograms of methamphetamines, 5 kilograms of fentanyl, 1.2 kilograms of cocaine, three firearms and ammunition from illegal alien offenders.
These were the people in your neighborhood.
Among those ICE said were charged were a Chilean convicted of four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years old, arrested in Marlborough; a Brazilian wanted for murder and convicted on gun trafficking charges in his home country, arrested in Worcester; a Russian wanted on gun charges in is home country, arrested in Medford; a Brazilian wanted for failure to serve a homicide sentence, arrested in Marlborough; and a gang member convicted of assault and battery and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison, arrested in Wakefield.
These are people Wu and Healey [and those local officials] were protecting so that they could virtue signal to other progressives who also live in neighborhoods where ICE doesn’t need to look for criminal aliens. And it is one of several reasons why Donald Trump and JD Vance did so much better with urban voters in 2024. THey are living with the truth in the wake of Wu and Healey’s lies. And they don’t want the dregs of third-world prisons roaming freely in any neighborhoods.
Is there hope for change?
Bernie is pretending that he was never a fan of open borders or the fentanyl pouring across them. It is out of character for the Marxist Muppet and contradicts of a lot of past rhetoric, but he’s a communist who expects to be in the ruling class, not some useful idiot (his audience). He knows the tide is against it as well as this: no Marxist nation can allow open borders or undocumented anyone. I feel certain he is still a fan of displacement, just not while his party is in the minority.
That hasn’t been an issue in Massachusetts for a very long time, which is why those Dems are not afraid to continue to defend open borders and protecting foreign criminals committing crimes against Americans. The problem, however, is that they should not be protecting anyone who commits crimes against anyone, but maybe voters don’t care about that as much as we think they should.
Wu is up for re-election this November (if she runs), and Healey’s number is up in 2026 (I assume she’ll run again too). Will any Dems challenge them or their positions? Is there a RINO Republican governor candidate in the wings (Massachusetts has a habit of electing those once in a while)? And will the pressure – if any – get Wu or Healey to change their tune?
