Gov. Maura Healey is correct in calling for the prosecution of people that invade church buildings.
However she is unsuitable in blaming ICE for the crime, when the one folks invading church buildings are half-crazed anti-ICE zealots in Minnesota.
These are the mean-spirited rioters who stormed the Baptist Cities Church in St. Paul January 18 to protest ICE’s (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) operation in outing, arresting, and deporting violent unlawful immigrant criminals.
The mob invaded and circled worshipers and their households, together with kids, and chanted anti-ICE slogans within the faces, and shutting down and making a mockery of the Christian spiritual service.
The mob, in its thuggish conduct, got here to the protection of the violent unlawful immigrant criminals who swarmed into sanctuaries in Minneapolis — and elsewhere within the nation– throughout hapless President Joe Biden’s disastrous open borders coverage.
President Donald Trump has vowed to get them out and ICE has been the spearhead within the elimination marketing campaign, which has met with fierce resistance in Minnesota.
There a pair of blowhard public officers– Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey—have recklessly led the opposition to ICE’s operation which– inadvertently or not—has led to the dying of two folks by the hands of ICE brokers.
Thus far, a dozen or so church rioters have been arrested and charged with conspiracy and interfering with the First Modification rights of the church worshipers.
Amongst these arrested embody Don Lemon, a former CNN superstar, who was a part of the mob. Lemon claimed he was there as a journalist, not a participant, though that didn’t cease him from getting within the face of Davd Easterwood, the pastor, who vainly tried to retore order.
Whereas Trump despatched Border Czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis to tone down the state of affairs—and the rhetoric—it didn’t appear to have a lot impression as Democrats solely ramped up their assaults on ICE and Trump.
Domestically, each Sen. Eddie Markey and Rep. Seth Moulton, who’s difficult Markey within the Democrat main, have referred to as the dying of the 2 Minneapolis residents homicide—with none proof– and mentioned that ICE ought to be abolished.
Whereas the pair discuss quite a bit to appease the unconventional left of the Democrat Social gathering, their discuss has little to do with ICE in Massachusetts.
That’s the place Healey, as chief government of the state, is available in.
However she is as dangerous as Markey and Moulton, and the remainder of the Democrats.
In her imaginative and prescient, it’s the individuals who want safety from ICE, and never safety from the violet felony unlawful immigrants who’re killing and raping them.
Which is why she filed laws final week “to guard the folks of Massachusetts from abuses” by Trump and ICE, and never abuses from the felony unlawful immigrant murderers, terrorists, rapists, and youngster sexual predators that Trump is kicking in another country.
Her invoice would preserve ICE out of locations they don’t go into anyway, like faculties, childcare packages, hospitals and church buildings. She needlessly included courthouse the place Massachusetts judges let needed unlawful immigrant criminals out the backdoor anyway.
“In Massachusetts and throughout the nation, we proceed to see illegal and unconstitutional actions by ICE that are supposed to intimidate and instill worry in our communities,” she mentioned.
However she made no point out of the intimidation and worry unfold all over the place by violent felony unlawful immigrants.
Her place siding with rioters and criminals over the common citizen is just not new.
Days after the Could 25, 2020, George Floyd homicide tons of of rioters thrashed, burned and looted enterprise in downtown Boston, notably on Newbury Avenue. 9 Boston cops had been hospitalized.
Healey, then legal professional common and the state’s “chief legislation enforcement officer,” enforced no legal guidelines however sided with the rioters. She mentioned, “Sure, America is burning. However that’s how forests develop.”
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas may be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.
