Gov. Maura Healey is true in calling for the prosecution of people that invade church buildings.
However she is incorrect 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 habits, 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 loss of life of two folks by the hands of ICE brokers.
To this point, 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 celeb, 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 scenario—and the rhetoric—it didn’t appear to have a lot affect 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 major, have known as the loss of life of the 2 Minneapolis residents homicide—with none proof– and mentioned that ICE must be abolished.
Whereas the pair discuss rather a lot to appease the novel left of the Democrat Occasion, their discuss has little to do with ICE in Massachusetts.
That’s the place Healey, as chief govt of the state, is available in.
However she is as unhealthy 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 little one sexual predators that Trump is kicking in a foreign country.
Her invoice would hold 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 should intimidate and instill concern in our communities,” she mentioned.
However she made no point out of the intimidation and concern unfold in all places by violent felony unlawful immigrants.
Her place siding with rioters and criminals over the typical citizen shouldn’t be new.
Days after the Might 25, 2020, George Floyd homicide lots of of rioters thrashed, burned and looted enterprise in downtown Boston, notably on Newbury Avenue. 9 Boston cops have 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 could be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.
