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As Democratic leaders in Massachusetts triple down on resistance in opposition to federal intervention to clamp down on crime, a migrant shelter whistleblower is sounding the alarm about a rise in crime in neighborhoods throughout the state and particularly in Boston.
Jon Fetherston, who ran one of many state-funded migrant shelters in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and blew the whistle about rampant crime and intercourse abuse going down within the resort shelter system. He now says that since Democratic Gov. Maura Healey closed down the shelter system, there was an uptick in home violence, intercourse trafficking, shoplifting and even auto accidents.
“The Healey resorts had been well-known for having intercourse trafficking, home violence. We have reported instances of rape, sadly, in there,” Fetherston mentioned. “Now, you have opened it as much as all the cities and cities in Massachusetts.”
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey pause to have a look at the Military cots arrange on the gymnasium ground as state and native officers toured the Melnea A. Cass Leisure Complicated housing immigrants through the Biden administration. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe through Getty Pictures)
This comes as Healey has pushed again in opposition to the Trump administration’s federal crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., and preemptively criticized any intervention in Boston as “political theater.”
“Extra political energy grabs from Donald Trump,” Healey wrote in a press release posted to X, including, “We don’t want or need his interference right here.”
In response, Fetherston mentioned, “How the governor simply needs the general public to consider that every one of these items is not going to occur is extraordinarily naive and intensely harmful.”
“Governor Healey needs you to suppose she simply snaps her fingers and closes all the resorts after which disperses folks into the communities that the thousand incidents that had been reported again in 2024, and the state has refused to launch the information for 2025, she simply thinks that these severe situations aren’t going to occur within the communities that now she’s pressured folks into.”
Referencing the high-profile case of unlawful immigrant Harjinder Singh allegedly inflicting an auto accident in Florida that killed three, Fetherston mentioned, “you have seen the nationwide tales of unlicensed or illegals with driver’s licenses and CDLs. I have not seen that, however I’ve seen an incredible uptick in automotive accidents.”
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Harjinder Singh is escorted to an airplane by Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and legislation enforcement on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Stockton, California. (AP Picture/Benjamin Fanjoy)
Fetherston mentioned that Boston has been notably impacted by the rise in crime.
“Your eyes inform you all it is advisable know. Crime is on an uptick in Boston. Issues aren’t good in Boston,” he mentioned. “Boston was as soon as an important metropolis. It’s not an important metropolis. It’s a metropolis that with open drug use, the crime charges have spiked.”
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, additionally a Democrat, has rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on unlawful immigrant crime or to ship the Nationwide Guard to the town.
Wu has mentioned, “In Boston, we comply and observe all the legal guidelines, metropolis, state and federal. And we is not going to again down from communities which have made us the most secure main metropolis within the nation.”
Wu has additionally commented, “It is a stunning, various, unbelievable metropolis, and I’ve mentioned it now very instantly, this administration must cease attacking cities to cover their very own failures.”
In response, Appearing ICE Director Todd Lyons has vowed to “flood” Boston with federal brokers.
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A Colombian nationwide is arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) elimination officers in Boston. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
To Fetherston, an elevated ICE presence can be welcome, whereas Wu’s resistance is indefensible.
“How any elected official couldn’t put public security as the largest precedence of any job that they do, it is disgusting to me and it’s extremely regarding,” he mentioned, including, “Mayor Wu needs to inform you that Boston is among the most secure cities. No, your eyes inform you that Boston has in nice decline.”
Concerning threats by the Trump administration and Homeland Safety to intervene in Boston and Massachusetts, Fetherston mentioned he believes that “anyone who lives in a crime-ridden space, which there are quite a bit in Massachusetts, will recognize the impact of it.”
“I’ve talked to enterprise homeowners, I’ve speak to native legislation enforcement, anyone who needs to have a smart dialog about fixing crime of their neighborhood, they help what the president’s doing and needs to do,” he defined. “Yeah, some folks most likely do not just like the optics as a result of perhaps they do not perceive it. And the media is doing, for my part, doing a foul job of describing it. Tanks aren’t rolling down folks’s streets. The Nationwide Guard’s not strolling with weapons into your yard and stuff like that. We’re simply there to guard and serve, and that is what your native police does.”
“If you do not need that as an elected official, I do not need you as my elected official,” he mentioned.
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks at a press convention. Wu has mentioned, “It is a stunning, various, unbelievable metropolis, and I’ve mentioned it now very instantly, this administration must cease attacking cities to cover their very own failures.” (Brian Snyder/REUTERS)
Fox Information Digital reached out to the places of work of Healey and Wu however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
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White Home spokeswoman Abigail Jackson commented on Healey and Wu’s resistance by saying, “If these Democrats centered on fixing crime in their very own cities as a substitute of doing publicity stunts to criticize the President, their communities can be a lot safer.”
“Cracking down on crime shouldn’t be a partisan concern, however Democrats affected by TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome] are attempting to make it one,” she went on, including, “They need to hearken to fellow Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser who not too long ago celebrated the Trump Administration’s success in driving down violent crime in Washington DC.”
Bowser’s workplace declined to remark additional, referring Fox Information Digital to the mayor’s prior statements.
