Memo to Maura: Present some compassion.
Not for the unlawful immigrants and the criminals amongst them who’ve flooded the state.
Or for the anti-ICE protestors attacking regulation and order.
Gov. Healey, you might have proven loads of compassion for them.
We’re speaking about compassion for the remainder of us. You understand, the regulation abiding, common hard-working residents who’re placing up with all of it, together with taxes to pay for the free stuff you might be handing out.
Your unlawful immigrant-first coverage is popping Massachusetts natives into second class residents and the state into a 3rd world nation.
When was the final time you, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, or every other progressive Democrat showered needy Massachusetts residents with the compassion you lavish on unlawful immigrants?
When was the final time you confirmed compassion to Angel Mothers or different victims of rape, little one intercourse exploitation and homicide by the hands of prison unlawful immigrants?
Your concept of compassion is mandating the development of “inexpensive” housing in suburban communities which some folks worry will probably be for the unlawful immigrants you waved into the state.
In the meantime, you might be coldly taking by eminent area the properties of residents in Bourne to make means for eventual development of a brand new Sagamore Bridge.
These long-term residents, whose properties are the property they labored a lifetime for, not less than deserve a cellphone name if not a go to and an evidence from the chief government.
You don’t personal a house, however in the event you did, how would you’re feeling if the state took it by eminent area and not using a phrase, a name or perhaps a nod?
You’ll be able to wager that these owners would get loads of consideration in the event that they have been unlawful immigrants as a substitute of residents.
You proceed responsible Donald Trump for all the issues going through the state, however it was you, amongst many different progressive Democrats, who fought Trump when he sought to close down Joe Biden’s open borders the primary time round.
In truth, you sued Trump 25 occasions a 12 months for 4 years if you have been lawyer common and he was president throughout his first time period. 13 of these fits handled Trump’s initiatives coping with unlawful immigration.
In 2019 you, together with 20 Democratic attorneys common, sued Trump to halt development of the border wall. You known as it “an influence seize.”
With no assist from the Democrats, Trump lastly succeeded. He constructed the wall, closed the border and turned the unlawful immigrant spigot off.
As lawyer common for eight years, you have been Massachusetts’ so known as “chief regulation enforcement officer” though, like your successor Legal professional Common Andrea Campbell, you by no means put any prison unlawful immigrants in jail.
Your concept of defending Massachusetts residents is to usher extra unlawful immigrants into Massachusetts than out, which is why you latterly known as on two personal airways to halt flying these slated for deportation out of Hanscom Air Area.
And when ICE goes after different unlawful immigrant criminals you as governor aspect with the criminals and their “ICE Watch Warriors” over the legit police authorities looking for to arrest them.
You probably did this if you commented on the taking pictures of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis even earlier than the info have been in. You mentioned ICE’s ways have been “chaotic, brutal and even lethal.”
This places you firmly on the aspect of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Jacob Frye, the mayor of Minneapolis, and Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flannagan, who urged anti-ICE rioters to “put your physique on the road.”
That’s what Renee Nicole Good did, and he or she acquired shot.
Reasonably than condemn ICE for doing its job, your recommendation to anti-ICE warriors needs to be:
When a cop tells you to get out of the automotive, get out of the automotive.
Had she completed so, Good could be alive.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas may be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
