DOJ Sues SCB Over Sanctuary Policies

What causes Democrats to want to shield illegal aliens who have been arrested for committing crimes?

Trump’s DOJ sues Boston over immigration enforcement policy

President Donald Trump’s administration filed suit Thursday against Boston, arguing its policies that limit police cooperation with civil immigration enforcement violate federal law.

The Department of Justice lawsuit follows similar legal actions by the administration against New York, New Jersey and Los Angeles that seek to overturn what it calls “sanctuary” policies that pose obstacles to Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

“The City of Boston and its Mayor have been among the worst sanctuary offenders in America – they explicitly enforce policies designed to undermine law enforcement and protect illegal aliens from justice.” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “If Boston won’t protect its citizens from illegal alien crime, this Department of Justice will.”

Mayor Michelle Wu was defiant in a response, accusing the administration of seeking to enforcement an “authoritarian agenda” and noting that Boston is the safest major city in the country.

I’ll give Sanctuary City Boston this, for Democrat cities it is a lot better than most, being ranked a 12 (100 is best) by Neighborhood Scout. Still, like all the other sanctuary cities, they attempt to hide crime by illegals and the illegals themselves, something they wouldn’t do for American citizens if you committed the same crimes.

DOJ’s lawsuit targets Boston’s Trust Act, which was adopted in 2014 and limits the amount of assistance that local law enforcement can provide to federal authorities involving the enforcement of civil immigration or low-level criminal offenses. It doesn’t prohibit Boston police from working with federal authorities on major crimes involving non-citizens.

I guess Boston doesn’t consider “assault to rape, kidnapping, indecent assault and battery, and intimidating a witness” a “major crime” when it involves illegal aliens. Or all the charges these 1,500 have against them.

Still, the Justice Department suit calls Boston’s policy “obstructionist” and says it interferes with immigration enforcement in the city, where the Trump administration is planning a major operation as part of its broader crackdown.

It singled out Wu for recently saying “Boston will never back down” on its policy, which the City Council reaffirmed in a December 2024 resolution.

“Her resistance endangers public safety, resulting in a number of criminals being released into Boston who should have been held for immigration removal from the United States,” it said.

I remember when Democrats stated that Los Federales had ultimate authority on immigration when they were suing Arizona over SB 1070, the “show me your papers (sic)) law. Local and state law enforcement have a duty to help federal law enforcement on other crimes, so, why not immigration?

I will also say, as I have for a very long time, that the feds should start using full warrants rather than detainers, then arrest the hell out of the people in sanctuary jurisdictions when they let illegals go.

It’ll be fun if she gets arrested for shielding illegals. Doubt that will happen, even if they deserve it.