ICE To ‘Flood’ Boston After Leftist Mayor Rejects Bondi’s Sanctuary Policy Demands

After Boston Mayor Michelle Wu rejected Attorney General Pam Bondi’s demand to dismantle sanctuary city policies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to significantly increase enforcement in the city, according to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons.

Earlier this month, Bondi sent letters to several city leaders, including Wu, declaring their sanctuary policies a violation of federal immigration law. “For too long, so-called sanctuary jurisdiction policies have undermined this necessary cooperation and obstructed federal immigration enforcement,” the letter read. “This ends now.”

Bondi warned that jurisdictions failing to cooperate would face severe consequences. “If they don’t comply with us, we’re going to work with other agencies to cut off their federal funding,” she said Monday on Fox News. “We are going to send in law enforcement just like we did during the LA riots, just like we’re doing here in Washington, D.C. And if they’re not going to keep their citizens safe, Donald Trump will keep them safe.”

Mayor Wu pushed back in a Tuesday press conference, accusing the Trump administration of scapegoating cities. “Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures,” she said. “Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law… we will not back away from our community that has made us the safest city in the country.”

Bondi had given Wu and other leaders until Tuesday to respond to the Department of Justice’s directive to repeal laws and policies obstructing ICE enforcement.

On Wednesday, Lyons joined “The Howie Carr Show” to announce that ICE operations in Boston would ramp up dramatically. “We’re going to keep making Boston safe, as she’s failing to do with the sanctuary city policies,” he said. “We did Operation Patriot March which yielded over 1,000 arrests, and now you’re going to see more ICE agents come to Boston to make sure that we take these public threats out that she wants to let go back in the communities… We’re definitely going to flood the zone.”

Lyons emphasized that ICE has been forced to re-arrest criminal aliens who were previously convicted and then released by Massachusetts authorities who refused to honor ICE detainers. “It’s not making anyone safer,” he said, pointing to real-time releases that endanger communities.

He also revealed that despite the Trust Act barring Boston police from cooperating with ICE, many officers are quietly helping behind the scenes. “We have so many men and women on the Boston Police Department… that are actually helping us behind the scenes,” Lyons said. “There are so many of these criminal aliens that keep getting released to go out and commit more crimes… We can take that violent criminal alien instantly out of the neighborhood.”

Lyons made it clear that Boston’s refusal to comply with federal law has triggered an aggressive federal response, and that ICE will not relent until public safety is restored.