Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey says she'll defy Trump's deportation order of illegal migrants

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said she volition defy Donald Trump's anticipated wide deportation bid targeting millions of amerciable immigrants. 

Healey, 53, insisted that Massachusetts authorities constabulary would 'absolutely not' assistance the Trump administration's planned deportations during an interrogation with MSNBC big Lawrence O'Donnell. 

'I bash deliberation it’s important that we each admit that there’s gonna beryllium a batch of unit connected states and authorities officials,' she added. 'And I tin guarantee you, we’re gonna enactment truly hard to deliver.' 

The lawmaker's stance drew backlash arsenic critics pointed retired that Healey has antecedently complained astir the migrant situation crippling her state's finances, which is forecast to outgo implicit $1 cardinal annually. 

She told WCVB successful May that the border crisis 'is the effect of national inaction'. Healey erstwhile backed sanctuary cities which connection migrants enhanced extortion from arrest.  But she ordered borderline crossers to halt traveling to the Bay State aft Texas Governor Greg Abbott began busing thousands up from borderline cities. 

Trump made tackling migration a cardinal pillar of his 2024 predetermination campaign, and has said helium plans to transportation retired the largest wide deportation successful American past of upwards of 15 cardinal people. 

Immigration has grown to a contentious contented successful Massachusetts aft being flooded with tens of thousands of migrants during the Biden administration, and the reliably-Democrat authorities hosted respective 'Close the Border' rallies this year. 

Trump held respective rallies successful the reliably-Democrat authorities focused connected his deportation plans. 

In her quality connected MSNBC, Healey said she intends to usage each 'tool' astatine her disposal to combat Trump's migration policies. 

'I deliberation that the cardinal present is that each instrumentality successful the toolbox has got to beryllium utilized to support our citizens, to support our residents and support our states, and surely to clasp the enactment connected ideology and the regularisation of instrumentality arsenic a basal principle,' she said. 

Healey antecedently served arsenic Massachusetts lawyer general, and challenged a fig of Trump's orders during his archetypal administration. 

But the politician admitted determination is present a 'different concern successful the courts' that whitethorn marque it much hard for authorities officials to defy Trump, but said determination are 'other ways' to situation him. 

'Some realities besides request to be, you know, noted. And that is, successful 2016, we had a precise antithetic concern successful the courts,' she said. 

'And portion I’m definite determination whitethorn beryllium litigation ahead, you know, there’s a batch of different ways that radical are going to enactment and request to enactment for the involvement of their states and their residents.' 

Healey said these different channels see authorities legislation, 'executive powers' and 'regulatory authority.'  

The remarks drew outrage from blimpish opponents of Healey, with Massachusetts' GOP Chairwoman Amy Carnevale branding her a 'hypocrite' implicit her erstwhile stance connected tackling the migrant crisis. 

'Governor Healey has chosen to indulge successful evident governmental showmanship alternatively than moving to physique bridges to payment the radical of Massachusetts,' Carnevale told the Boston Herald. 

'What is astir striking astir the Governor’s caller connection is the glaring hypocrisy. 

'She has blamed the national authorities for the migrant situation successful Massachusetts, yet present that we person a recently elected President acceptable to code the migration situation with action, she is backtracking.' 

Carnevale was referencing Healey's remarks to WCVB successful May branding the migrant situation a 'federal problem.' 

Healey said astatine the time: 'Remember, the fig of immigrants we’re seeing — successful Massachusetts and different states — implicit the borderline is the effect of national inaction.

'There was a bipartisan woody connected the array weeks ago. Republicans successful Congress killed it aft Donald Trump said nary woody connected immigration.'