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BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts) Fri Aug 29, 2025, 07:15 PM Aug 29

Trump admin plans immigration enforcement surge in Boston

Source: Politico

08/29/2025 01:52 PM EDT

The Trump administration is preparing an immigration enforcement blitz in Boston in the coming weeks, according to a current administration official and a former administration official. The latest plans, which could still change, would involve a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and represent the latest Democratic-run city to be targeted by President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration has frequently clashed with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and criticized the city’s so-called sanctuary policy — which limits local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal agents looking to arrest and remove undocumented immigrants.

The clampdown could come soon after a similar surge in Chicago in September, the former official and current official said. But the operations could also happen concurrently, the administration official said.

Flooding Boston with immigration enforcement officials would represent the latest escalation in the administration’s campaign against Democrat-led cities, and, following action in Los Angeles and Washington, would continue to blur the lines between the military, policing and immigration enforcement across the country.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/trump-admin-plans-immigration-enforcement-surge-in-boston-00536276

They may run into a lot of Irish who let their visas expire... years ago! But...

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Trump admin plans immigration enforcement surge in Boston (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 29 OP

I don't think they know what they will face in Boston. chowder66 Aug 29 #1

They will find out soon enough. TheCowsCameHome Aug 29 #2

The Irish won't be exempt. Some have already been taken. pnwmom Aug 29 #3

There are MANY MANY of them there BumRushDaShow Aug 29 #4

There was a Filipina woman taken by ICE here, who'd been living here for decades pnwmom Aug 29 #5

I remember early on BumRushDaShow Aug 29 #6

Yup. The criteria for ICE isn't about the worst of the worst. pnwmom Aug 29 #7

One if by land. Two if by sea. Bayard Aug 30 #8

chowder66

(11,262 posts)

1. I don't think they know what they will face in Boston.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 07:26 PM

Aug 29

TheCowsCameHome

(40,268 posts)

2. They will find out soon enough.

Reply to chowder66 (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:05 PM

Aug 29

This won't go well for the Goon Squad.

pnwmom

(110,082 posts)

3. The Irish won't be exempt. Some have already been taken.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:32 PM

Aug 29

Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland, came to West Virginia to visit his girlfriend last fall. It was one of many trips he had taken to the US, and he was authorized to travel under a visa waiver program that allows tourists to stay in the country for 90 days.

He had planned to return to Ireland in December, but was briefly unable to fly due to a health issue, his medical records show. He was only three days overdue to leave the US when an encounter with police landed him in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody.

From there, what should have been a minor incident became a nightmarish ordeal: he was detained by Ice in three different facilities, ultimately spending roughly 100 days behind bars with little understanding of why he was being held – or when he’d get out.

“Nobody is safe from the system if they get pulled into it,” said Thomas, in a recent interview from his home in Ireland, a few months after his release. Thomas asked to be identified by a nickname out of fear of facing further consequences with US immigration authorities.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/irish-tourist-ice-detention

Irish detentions up 300 percent
August 19, 2025 by Geoffrey Cobb
Many Americans who are viewers of Fox News, or other right wing media outlets, believe that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE, the federal agency that enforces federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration is only arresting and deporting dangerous and violent criminals, not the law abiding 11 million or so undocumented people whom the Trump administration has in its crosshairs.

https://www.irishecho.com/2025/8/irish-detentions-up-300-percent

BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)

4. There are MANY MANY of them there

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:43 PM

Aug 29

who have been in the country for decades. But there is also a group of spillovers from Rhode Island - the Cape Verdeans - who have a large population in the area, and would probably be targeted.

pnwmom

(110,082 posts)

5. There was a Filipina woman taken by ICE here, who'd been living here for decades

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:09 PM

Aug 29

after arriving when she was 14. She was a legal resident but hadn't become a citizen because a relative had left her some property, which required she remain a citizen of the Philippines.

She was working as a lab tech at UW, but made the mistake of visiting her family overseas, and was arrested coming home through the airport. Their excuse was a conviction thirty years ago (stealing money from an employer), which resulted in no prison time -- and her green card was renewed several times since then.

But she was sent to the Tacoma Detention center. Eventually, she was released, but she had some harrowing weeks.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/ice-releases-health-worker-us-legally-50-years-rcna209975

BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)

6. I remember early on

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:30 PM

Aug 29

when a number of immigrant rights groups and colleges/universities, were warning people not to travel overseas and try to come back or they may get flagged. I expect many who weren't paying attention, may get similarly hit.

pnwmom

(110,082 posts)

7. Yup. The criteria for ICE isn't about the worst of the worst.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #6)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:00 PM

Aug 29

It's about the arrests: the easiest of the easiest.

Bayard

(26,974 posts)

8. One if by land. Two if by sea.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 01:40 PM

Aug 30

The morons are coming! The morons are coming!

This will not go well for the invading army.

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