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ICE crackdowns intensify across Boston as sanctuary cities face Trump’s latest operation
The Associated Press ^ | September 16, 2025 | BY LEAH WILLINGHAM, MICHAEL CASEY AND HOLLY RAMER

Posted on 09/16/2025 5:40:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

BOSTON (AP) — Immigrants are being detained while going to work, outside courthouses, and at store parking lots in Metro Boston as President Donald Trump targets so-called sanctuary cities in his effort to ramp up immigration enforcement.

As families hole up in homes — afraid to leave and risk detainment — advocates are reporting an increased presence of unmarked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles sitting in parking lots and other public areas throughout immigrant communities, where agents appeared to target work vans. One man captured a video of three landscapers who were working on the Saugus Town Hall property being arrested after agents smashed their truck window.

Just north of Boston, the city of Everett canceled its annual Hispanic Heritage Month festival after its mayor said it wouldn’t be right to “hold a celebration at a time when community members may not feel safe attending.”

“This is really increasing the fear in communities, which is already incredibly high,” said Elizabeth Sweet, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition.

ICE has contracts to detain people at multiple correctional facilities across New England, including county jails as well as the federal prison in Berlin, New Hampshire, and a publicly-owned, privately operated prison in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Volunteers monitoring flights carrying detainees from New Hampshire’s Portsmouth International Airport at Pease have documented the transfer of more than 300 individuals since early August, with at least five flights per week transferring people from New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts. All of the detainees have been in shackles, said David Holt, who has been organizing regular protests at Pease.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: border; deportations; illegalaliens; invasion

1 posted on 09/16/2025 5:40:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mayan warriors


2 posted on 09/16/2025 5:43:56 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Immigrants are being detained ....”
***********
They’re not immigrants. They’re invaders and sneak-ins.


3 posted on 09/16/2025 5:45:38 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Our bull duke whore Governor and Boston’s Maoist Mayor (whose name is Wu...so she even *looks* like a Red Guard) are outraged! Next thing to happen will be for DJT to send the National Guard into Boston (after he’s straightened out Memphis) to fix the huge crime problem here!


4 posted on 09/16/2025 5:46:41 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nice. What the Dems are fighting for.


5 posted on 09/16/2025 5:48:07 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Massacuttes never got rid of the Loyalists who are now in control. They resist the American government


6 posted on 09/16/2025 5:52:11 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Socon-Econ
DJT is only enforcing the rules regarding wetbacks that the people of Martha's Vineyard demanded when Governor Ron Destanis sent those 51 wetbacks there a year or so ago. Those wetbacks were kicked off of “The Vineyard” within 12 hours of arrival! I guess that shows that Osama Obama and his elite neighbors don't *really* like wetback when you come right down to it.
7 posted on 09/16/2025 5:52:12 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: bert

Being a lifelong resident of The Gay State (Massachusetts) I can assure you that the loyalists lost their influence here decades ago. Today this state is run by Maoists...the children of Mao’s Red Guards.


8 posted on 09/16/2025 5:54:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Gay State Conservative

: )


9 posted on 09/16/2025 5:56:06 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I second that evaluation.


10 posted on 09/16/2025 6:01:23 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

I think Trump ought to cut these sanctuary cities for bait.

Withdraw all fed support or assistance and wait for them to BEG for help.

Give them all the rope they want, and more. It won’t take long!


11 posted on 09/16/2025 6:05:18 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“As families hole up in homes — afraid to leave...”

Well, they got it partly right, this describes people who live in those neighborhoods like in DC, Memphis and others that are afraid of being killed or raped if they leave their house (sometimes in their own house).


12 posted on 09/16/2025 6:16:34 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sanctuary cities finest


13 posted on 09/16/2025 7:23:06 AM PDT by Vaduz
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