X post by Bill Melugin
EXCLUSIVE: We were given exclusive access to ICE’s elite Boston team as they went into sanctuary jurisdictions and targeted the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens, including a combative Haitian man who said he won’t go back & screamed “F**k Trump, Biden forever!”. Other targets arrested included a MS-13 gang member with an Interpol Red Notice for aggravated murder, another MS-13 gang member facing gun charges, and multiple rape & sexual assault suspects, several of whom had been released from sanctuary jurisdictions with ICE detainers ignored.
One of the MS-13 suspects had just been released by a sanctuary jurisdiction the day before our embed. When ICE found him – he was with another man who ICE determined is also in the U.S. illegally. ICE arrested him and will seek to deport him, telling me he never would have been caught up if the MS-13 suspect would have been handed to them at jail. This is “collateral”, and Tom Homan warns sanctuary cities will see more of it.
TRANSCRIPT:
It’s a frigid 5° in the pre-dawn hours, just outside of Boston, where this team of elite ICE officers is briefing on their targets for the day.
And we’re going to be targeting some extremely violent offenders today.
Within moments, the officers are on the move with eyes on their first target.
“Looks like we got movement. Target vehicle coming out.”
They quickly take him into custody. He’s an MS-13 gang member wanted in El Salvador for aggravated murder, and he has an Interpol Red Notice out for his arrest.
“We are targeting very violent threats to our community.”
“I’m not going back to Haiti.”
One of those threats is this illegal alien from Haiti. ICE says he’s a gang member with 17 criminal convictions in recent years.
“Thank Obama for everything that he did. Replay for me both.”
ICE Boston quickly takes down its next targets, including this illegal alien from Brazil who has an Interpol Red Notice for armed robbery, a Salvadoran illegal alien charged locally with rape and released by a sanctuary jurisdiction, and this Dominican illegal alien charged with assault with a deadly weapon and heroin. Officers also arrested this Guatemalan MS-13 gang member facing gun charges. ICE says he was released from local custody just the day before their detainer request was ignored because of sanctuary policies.
In a sign of shifting priorities with the new Trump administration, this man who was in the same apartment as the target was also arrested after ICE determined he’s also in the U.S. illegally. This is what ICE calls collateral.
“So you guys got your main target just now, but you got somebody else. What just happened?”
“Our main target was released by a sanctuary jurisdiction not honoring a detainer. That person was released back into the communities, and when we went to go find him, he’s with somebody else who was previously removed from the United States. So he’s…”
“Chelsea, start off. I got that.”
“To go today too.”
And that is exactly what Borders Czar Tom Homan has warned would happen.
“When we find the bad guy, he’s probably with others—others that are in the United States illegally. They may not be a criminal priority, but we’re not walking away from them.”
ICE Boston says they will continue to go into sanctuary jurisdictions and do their job.
“Today was a good day. Today we took several significant public safety threats out of our communities. Unfortunately, a lot were released by sanctuary policies, but we’re here to tell the Commonwealth—and the rest of the country—we’re going to get them, whether they’re released or not.”
And guys, shortly after we finished filming, ICE Boston told us they arrested two more targets in other parts of town, away from our cameras. One of those targets is a previously deported Honduran illegal alien who was arrested for assaulting a woman while putting a gun in her mouth. The other target they got is a Haitian man who first flew into the United States in 2023 as part of Biden’s controversial migrant flights mass parole program. Well, they just picked him up yesterday because he’s been arrested locally for sexual assault.
“Send it back to you.”
“Illusion. This—it was fascinating to watch all of that. I think I was just saying to Bill, this is terrible for Joe Biden and the legacy that he tried to leave behind. A question for me—how soon will they actually be leaving the country? Does that take a long time?”
“It depends on what country they’re from. If they’re from cooperative countries like El Salvador or Guatemala, it can be quick—it can be within days or weeks. If it’s countries that are harder to deport to, countries that don’t cooperate with the U.S. as much, it can go into a process of months. But the Trump administration is changing policies with something called expedited removal. The bottom line? People at home don’t need to understand all the details. The Trump administration is just going to work as fast as they can to get all the people you just saw on camera out of the country as fast as possible. They’re also going to use their State Department, now led by Marco Rubio, to put pressure on countries that don’t cooperate with the U.S. as much when it comes to those deportations.”
“Just two points of clarification here. Seems a lot of these crimes are associated with sex. I’m just looking at the list. But earlier today—I don’t know if that generally is the case or not. And second, if Boston’s a sanctuary city, how are they allowed to do this? Because we were told there would be resistance.”
“Boston doesn’t have to cooperate with ICE, but there’s nothing they can do to stop ICE from coming into their city and enforcing the law. That’s exactly what happened. And that’s the point ICE makes to us. Look, they don’t have to cooperate with our detainer request. They don’t have to tell our officers when they’re releasing somebody from jail. But we’re going to do our job. We have our Intel guys out in the field. We have people with eyes all over the place, and we’re going to find those guys.
“They can make ICE’s job more difficult, longer, and more dangerous, but it’s not going to stop us from doing the job. The bottom line is, ICE says it’s safer for everybody involved if locals would just hand these guys over in jail once they’re arrested. But they don’t. They let them out onto the streets. They don’t tell us. So ICE has to spend a lot of resources gathering Intel, finding these guys, and then going out into the community to do arrests, which could be dangerous.
“And then you saw in the case of that one MS-13 member—his friend got snagged. We weren’t even looking for him. We were looking for the MS-13 guy. They picked him up because a sanctuary jurisdiction released the MS-13 guy. ICE found him, then found the guy who was in the apartment with him. They found out he was an illegal alien as well. Now he’s going to be deported too.”
“Wow. Amazing, Bill. Thank you so much.”
“Yes, underway. Thank you, Bill.”
“More to come on that.”
Ha. Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden nevermore.
Borders Czar Tom Homan is right.
When cities and states don’t assist ICE the collateral pick-ups of non-violent illegals will become greater.
But then, the bleeding heart liberal rags in media want that.
I am still looking forward to the first city council member, mayor or governor to go to jail for impeding and interfering with the ICE apprehensions. They should be held accountable for the crimes the illegals they protected committed against the citizens. And, note that Mayorkas didn’t get a pardon.