Boston Police Commissioner says he will not cooperate with ICE

If you read my reports regularly, you know I have been chomping at the bit for this administration to challenge sanctuary city laws.

These laws were challenged toward the end of the first Trump administration, but the challenge never came to fruition because it was so late in Trump's term. Now, with blue states continuing to say they will not cooperate with ICE and Trump's deportation plans, the DOJ is taking up the fight early to settle the issue.

Boston Police Chief Will Not Cooperate

When a police chief openly decides that a law does not need to be followed, that is an issue.

For some reason, Democrats continue to try to make the argument that our immigration laws are an option. Case in point, the Boston Police Commissioner, Michael Cox, openly stated that he would not be cooperating with ICE.

Donald Trump wants to give local police departments the authority to enforce immigration laws, but Cox is not buying in, stating, "We just don’t do that. We don’t enforce civil detainers regarding federal immigration law. It's defined here in the state, and that’s just how it works."

He was referring to the Boston Trust Act, which was passed in 2017 and upheld by the Massachusetts Supreme Court that limits local and state law enforcement entities from cooperating with ICE detainers and requests to hold illegal immigrants for possible deportation.

Round 1

As I noted above, the first Trump administration tried to challenge sanctuary city laws, but they just ran out of time.

Trump was challenging sanctuary laws in California, known as the California Values Act.

The administration tried to get the case before the Supreme Court, but the court sent it back to the lower courts, where it marinated until the Biden administration took over.

Once Biden took office, his DOJ filed to have the case dismissed due to the administration claiming that it needed time to assess the situation and decide how it would approach this particular issue.

Round 3

Unlike Jeff Sessions and William Barr, Pam Bondi's first act after being sworn in as Attorney General was to file a suit against the state of New York, challenging its sanctuary city laws.

Bondi stated, “New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today. If you don’t comply with federal law, we will hold you accountable.”

She added, “It’s tipping off an illegal alien, and it’s unconstitutional, and that’s why we filed this lawsuit."

This is the big one for me, as it is by far the most crucial issue of this presidency that this administration and the courts must settle. Putting it on the table now means that it will likely run the full course of litigation and wind up before the Supreme Court, at which point the court will have no choice but to take the case.