Dem governor backs ICE arresting 'criminals' despite vowing to use 'every tool' against Trump deportations

The Democratic politician of Massachusetts signaled her enactment for arresting transgression amerciable immigrants, saying she supports "the apprehension of criminals successful our communities" 

Gov. Maura Healey told reporters connected Thursday that she supports arresting criminals, careless of whether they are undocumented oregon not, according to local quality outlet WCVB.

Fox News witnessed ICE Boston making 8 arrests this week, including aggregate MS-13 members, Interpol Red Notices, execution and rape suspects, and a volatile Haitian pack subordinate with 18 convictions successful caller years who shouted that helium "ain’t going backmost to Haiti" and "F--- Trump, Biden forever!"

The arrests travel arsenic the Trump medication moves rapidly to fulfill its committedness to motorboat a historical wide deportation operation, which it has said volition absorption chiefly – but not exclusively – connected nationalist information threats.

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Bill Melugin embedded with ICE Boston and witnessed agents making arrests. (X/ @BillMelugin_)

Addressing the arrests, Healey said she "wouldn't picture them arsenic raids," but instead, "what it seems to be, and what we expected and what I support, which is the apprehension of criminals successful our communities."

"Whether you’re documented oregon undocumented, you perpetrate crimes, you’re taxable to probe and prosecution and accountability, and it looks similar that is what happened," Healey said, according to Fox section outlet, Boston 25.

Healey, who previously vowed to defy Trump’s deportation efforts successful November, noted that Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state, contempt a 2017 ruling by the authorities Supreme Judicial Court that severely limits instrumentality enforcement practice with ICE.

Healey said successful November that her authorities constabulary volition "absolutely not" beryllium cooperating with Trump's wide deportation efforts, informing that she volition usage "every instrumentality successful the toolbox" to "protect" residents successful the bluish state.

"I inactive stay opposed connected efforts to people ample swaths of an undocumented colonisation who've done thing incorrect different than they're present without lawful presence," she said.

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Gov. Maura Healey (Left) told reporters connected Thursday that she supports arresting criminals, careless of whether they are undocumented. (Fox News)

Healey has taken a somewhat much centrist presumption connected migration enforcement successful caller months.

After an amerciable migrant was caught utilizing the state’s migrant structure strategy for amerciable activity, Healey said she was "outraged," She ordered a afloat inspection of the strategy and sent a missive to Massachusetts legislative leaders, urging them to amend the state’s "right to shelter" laws to exclude amerciable immigrants.

At the time, she commented that Trump present has the accidental to hole the borderline and said, "I anticipation helium does."

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Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell speaks successful Boston, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, however, continues to staunchly reason the Trump administration’s crackdown.

She has taken to societal media respective times this week to explicit her choler implicit Trump’s migration decisions, saying successful 1 X station that "State & section instrumentality enforcement cannot beryllium commandeered for national migration enforcement. Despite what President Trump whitethorn think, helium doesn't person the authorization to unilaterally rewrite our Constitution."

"State AGs won't hesitate to respond if his threats go amerciable actions," she said.

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Bill Melugin embedded with ICE Boston and witnessed agents making arrests. (X/ @BillMelugin_)

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Meanwhile, Republican authorities Representatives Michael Soter and Kenneth Sweezey introduced a measure connected Friday, titled "An Act to beforehand and support information successful the Commonwealth," which would empower section and authorities instrumentality enforcement to much afloat cooperate with ICE.

"The migration contented successful Massachusetts has gotten wholly retired of control," Sweezey said successful a connection sent to Fox News Digital. "This portion of authorities is simply a precise simple, common-sense archetypal measurement successful rectifying portion of the issue."

Bill Melugin, Stephen Sorace and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.