New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte has a degree.
Those that stay in glass homes shouldn’t throw stones, particularly in the case of prison unlawful immigration.
Or, as Republican Ayotte put it to Massachusetts Democrat Gov. Maura Healey — “Get your individual home so as, Maura.”
The flap was over Healey’s “demand” that Ayotte reject a proposed Immigration and Customized Enforcement (ICE) regional Granite State web site to deal with detained unlawful immigrants, prison and in any other case.
The empty warehouse facility in Merrimack close to the Massachusetts border could be transformed right into a 400-bed detention facility – considered one of a number of large-scale amenities the company is planning to erect throughout the nation.
“That is outrageous and completely the improper transfer for New Hampshire,” Healey mentioned. Healey, born in Maryland, grew up in Hampton Falls, N.H.
Ayotte in impact informed Healey to thoughts her personal enterprise, which is to run Massachusetts, not New Hampshire.
Moreover, lots of the prison unlawful immigrants to be briefly housed on the New Hampshire facility will possible be from Massachusetts, having been waved into the nation by Joe Biden and into the state by Healey.
And whereas Massachusetts will not be an official sanctuary state —though Boston is — underneath Healey, Massachusetts acts like one.
And the state’s beneficiant advantages — initially designed for Massachusetts residents — have made the state a haven for unlawful immigrants who flocked to the state in search of these freebies which, in fact, price Massachusetts taxpayers billions.
So It’s no surprise that Healey is against slicing the state earnings tax from from 5% to 4%, which shall be on the 2026 poll for voter consideration.
She wants the cash to pay for these advantages.
Massachusetts has been a great deal for unlawful immigrants. Additionally it is why they haven’t descended on New Hampshire which, to say the least, will not be as beneficiant to unlawful immigrants as is Massachusetts. New Hampshire has no sanctuary cities.
And, in contrast to Massachusetts, New Hampshire helps native police officers cooperating with ICE.
Unlawful immigrants in Massachusetts are shielded from ICE. If left-wing judges should not letting them evade ICE from the again door of courthouses, Healey is in search of to outright ban ICE from the courthouses.
She says ICE is made up of “rogue” brokers who’re breaking the regulation and inflicting “devastation” and “hurt.” She has joined the refrain of Democrats calling for its defunding.
If Healey had been so involved about regulation enforcement officers breaking the regulation, she would additionally name for the defunding of the Massachusetts State Police. Extra state cops have been despatched to jail underneath her watch than ICE brokers.
All of the whereas Healey has “demanded” that fellow Gov. Ayotte “do all the things in her energy to dam a brand new ICE facility in New Hampshire.”
Of the demand, Ayotte informed the Globe, “New England is on this place as a result of Governor Healey and Massachusetts created a billion-dollar unlawful immigrant disaster in our area.”
There isn’t a love misplaced between the 2 governors.
Healey went to extraordinary efforts to defeat Ayotte within the final gubernatorial election. She raised cash and actively campaigned in New Hampshire for Ayotte’s progressive Democrat opponent Joyce Craig, the previous mayor of Manchester, who misplaced.
Ayotte’s marketing campaign slogan was: “Don’t MASS up New Hampshire.”
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas may be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.
