The Operation Patriot implemented by ICE in Massachusetts detained more than 1,400 immigrants
For a month, agents from ICE and other federal agencies carried out the largest immigration arrest ever carried out in Massachusetts
With the support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) teams from other northeastern states, as well as authorities from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Federal Enforcement Administration Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), concluded the so-called Operation Patriot in Massachusetts with a total of 1,461 immigrants detained for repatriation purposes.
Throughout the month of May, ICE operations focused on the state of Massachusetts, but especially the Boston metropolitan area and several jurisdictions considered sanctuary.
ICE personnel quoted by the television network Fox News on condition of anonymity indicated that 790 of the foreigners without legal status detained had criminal records.
Likewise, they reported having obtained 277 definitive deportation orders.
It is noteworthy that all of the detained people were caught while walking freely in the streets knowing that the government of Massachusetts was not interested in handing them over to ICE.
In fact, Maura Tracy Healey, the governor of Massachusetts, expressed outrage at the large number of immigrants captured by ICE.
In a message on the X platform, the 54-year-old Democrat reproached Donald Trump for promoting an anti-immigrant policy that worries a large part of the citizenry.
“The Trump Administration continues to generate fear in our communities and is making us all less safe,” she wrote.
In response, Todd Lyons, acting director of ICE, warned at a conference that as long as the local government does not support its agents, they will return until they fulfill the mission entrusted to them by the head of the nation to carry out the largest deportation of immigrants in all of history.
“If sanctuary cities would change their policies and release these violent criminal aliens into our custody instead of releasing them to the public, we wouldn’t have to go out into the communities to do this.
This operation just proved that we need to come back because ICE will make sure we keep our community safe and our neighborhood safe from these criminals,” he said.