Gov. Maura Healey is correct.
Massachusetts will not be a sanctuary state.
It simply acts like one. It’s as an alternative a type of haven, or heaven, for immigrants, unlawful or in any other case, who’ve flocked right here looking for refuge and welfare.
Simply don’t name it a sanctuary.
“We aren’t a sanctuary state,” Healey mentioned following raids by President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan, and ICE final week during which some 370 wished “unlawful aliens” –together with drug sellers, gun runners, murderers and rapists—had been rounded up in Boston and throughout the state.
The newcomers to Massachusetts, with good motive, apparently thought in any other case.
And why not? Beneath Healey the state is spending billions of taxpayer {dollars} for the caring of the inflow of immigrants from all over the world who’ve sought sanctuary, or refuge, within the state. This contains free housing, meals, medical care, cell telephones, transportation, education and so forth.
Solely the opposite day Healey’s Labor and Workforce Improvement Secretary Lauren Jones advised a State Home committee listening to that Healey is looking for to spend $30 million to show grownup immigrants English below a program referred to as English for Audio system of Different Languages.
The identical committee is contemplating a companion invoice making a state funded Immigrant Authorized Protection Fund that would supply legal professionals for immigrants who face deportation, together with these held in federal detention facilities.
However Healey could have a degree, shaky as it’s. The state will not be Boston, which with its Boston Belief Act which makes it a sanctuary metropolis.
The act prohibits Boston cops from making arrests of unlawful immigrants or holding them based mostly on ICE immigration detainers. The cops are additionally prohibited from even asking individuals about their immigration standing.
Although the act doesn’t apply to the state, a 2017 choice by the Supreme Judicial Courtroom does apply by making Massachusetts a protected harbor for migrants wished by ICE— or no less than it did earlier than Homan got here to city.
The courtroom held that the state courtroom officers aren’t legally permitted to arrest or maintain immigrants wished by ICE on detainers. The ruling is interpreted to use to all state and native legislation enforcement officers as effectively.
If that doesn’t make Massachusetts a sanctuary state, then maybe the unfastened interpretation, or outright ignoring, by the Healey administration of the state’s so-called “Proper to Shelter” legislation, does.
That is the 1983 legislation (ACT 1983. Chap. 45, Part 1) that was handed to cope with the state’s homeless downside which again then was small in comparison with right now.
The legislation, signed by Gov. Michael Dukakis, restricted the eligibility for welfare advantages solely to “residents” of the state.
It says that “any such one that enters the Commonwealth solely for the needs of acquiring advantages below this chapter shall not be thought-about a resident.”
This accounts why progressives like Healey, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Legal professional Basic Andrea Campbell name immigrants “residents”’ even when they only crashed into the state and had been sleeping at Logan Airport or checking in at one in all Healey’s motels.
Healey, the progressive that she is, had no alternative when the choice was to ship lots of the unlawful immigrants arriving from all over the world again to their dwelling international locations..
No progressive with a coronary heart would dare counsel a factor, even when it might be executed.
In order that left President Trump, who the progressives hate, to wash up the mess that Joe Biden left behind when he opened the borders and waved hundreds of thousands of unvetted immigrants into the nation, criminals included.
Governors like Healey, as an alternative of attacking Trump, ought to be thanking him for shutting down the border, ending the immigrant invasion, and deporting the violent immigrant criminals residing within the state committing horrendous crimes.
As a substitute, Healey, Wu and Campbell all deliberate to thwart the president.
Campbell even mentioned, “Deliver it on.” So, Trump did.
As Heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson as soon as mentioned, “Everybody has a plan till they get punched within the face.”
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas could be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
Courtesy/DEA
Boston-based brokers with ICE’s Enforcement and Removing Operations unit stand with a number of unlawful immigrants they arrested on Nantucket earlier this month. (Courtesy/DEA, File)
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