On Tuesday, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu appeared in an interview with Boston Public Radio and announced that her city is releasing fugitives wanted by ICE because “ICE is choosing not to go and get these criminal warrants.”
She also claimed that “so and so was extremely dangerous and a threat to the community. And yet, they’re not taking the action that reflects what they should be doing if they believed that to be true.”
Big yikes.
Wu declared, “[A]ny agency that gets a judicial warrant, a criminal warrant signed by a judge that has verified probable cause and has gone through that process in the legal system, the Boston Police must enforce that. And we do, every day, whether that’s a warrant that comes from out of state for someone who might be wanted for a serious crime elsewhere, or even outside the country.”
She continued, “ICE is choosing not to go and get these criminal warrants. And what they’ll say is, oh, so and so was extremely dangerous and a threat to the community. And yet, they’re not taking the action that reflects what they should be doing if they believed that to be true. They’re waiting until afterwards and then saying, we had to arrest this person separately, because — and usually, it’s not Boston Police, because, frankly the police department isn’t holding people in custody for very long in most cases.”
Wu added that the city is under court rulings.