Dem governor threatens to use 'every tool' to fight back against Trump-era deportations

Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey says that her authorities constabulary volition "absolutely not" beryllium cooperating with the expected wide deportation effort by the incoming Trump administration, informing that she volition usage "every instrumentality successful the toolbox" to "protect" residents successful the bluish state.

Healey was asked connected MSNBC connected Wednesday whether the Massachusetts State Police would assistance the national authorities successful the wide deportation of amerciable immigrants. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to launch the "largest home deportation cognition successful American history" to deport millions of amerciable immigrants.

"Following the Eisenhower Model, we volition transportation retired the largest home deportation cognition successful American history," Trump said during the campaign.

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However, Healey made her presumption clear.

"No. Absolutely not," she said erstwhile asked if authorities constabulary would assistance the administration.

"I bash deliberation it is important that we each admit that determination is going to beryllium a batch of unit connected states and authorities officials. I tin guarantee you we're going to enactment hard to deliver," she said.

Healey launched a fig of lawsuits against the past Trump medication arsenic lawyer wide of the authorities and indicated a batch of absorption could beryllium coming successful 2025, including litigation and the usage of regularisation and enforcement authority.

"Some realities request to beryllium noted and that is successful 2016, we had a antithetic concern successful the courts, and I americium definite determination whitethorn beryllium litigation ahead, determination is simply a batch of different ways radical are going to enactment and request to enactment for the involvement of their states and residents," she said. "There's regulatory authorization and enforcement powers and the like, there's authorities besides wrong our state."

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Gov. Maura Healey says her authorities opposes President-elect Donald Trump deportations. (Photographer: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"So I deliberation the cardinal present is that, you know, each instrumentality successful the instrumentality container has got to beryllium utilized to support our citizens, to support our residents and support our states and to clasp the enactment connected ideology and the regularisation of instrumentality arsenic a basal principle."

Massachusetts has been 1 of a fig of states that person been overwhelmed by the migrant surge coming from the confederate border.

Last year, she declared a state of emergency successful the authorities owed to the surge and called for national action. She besides acknowledged that the state’s policies whitethorn beryllium a gully for migrants.

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"Many of these families are migrants to Massachusetts, drawn present due to the fact that we are and proudly person been a beacon to those successful need," she wrote successful a missive to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

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She besides blamed "a confusing tangle of migration laws, an inability for migrants to get enactment authorization from the national government, an summation successful the fig of radical coming to Massachusetts, and the deficiency of an affordable lodging proviso successful our state."

Healey called for Mayorkas to property Congress and usage enforcement enactment to region barriers for enactment permits for migrants, "address our outdated and punitive migration laws" and to supply further fiscal assistance to the state.

Her authorities has besides prioritized enactment authorizations, occupation training, English classes and rehousing assistance for migrants. It said earlier this twelvemonth that it has helped 3,785 migrants use for enactment authorization, and enrolled much than 1,100 successful English classes.