We’ve seen the incredible lengths the Left will go to kneecap U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and protect illegal aliens, even those who are violent criminals.
Uber-woke Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s name is often at the top of the list of Democrat miscreants who not only refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement, but actively thwart them. She may have topped herself with this latest Orwellian move, though — she’s using the power of the state to intimidate her own private citizens and force her own unlawful (in my view, anyway) vision down their throats.
To wit: she wants to use the Freedom of Information Act to collect the names of anyone who is willing to lease parking spaces to ICE as they conduct operations in the city. This is pretty sick stuff:
Previously, Wu signed an executive order to prevent ICE from operating on city property, parks, or parking lots, without a court order or a warrant.
Admitting in the interview that she can not stop private property owners from leasing to ICE, Wu said her office will file public records requests to learn who is interested in working with the agency, so that the city can contact those entities.
“We can’t block private property owners,” she said, but the city can inform them of their opinion on the issues, which is that “this is not a way to make the community safer.”
Wu pointed to fatal shootings in Minnesota and Maine as examples of when ICE’s enforcement has had “life and death consequences.”
“We oppose any, any mechanism to allow them to do that here,” she said.
"The city can inform them of their opinion on the issues..." Yeah, like when the mobsters stop by your store and give you some friendly advice.
As you might imagine, the Department of Homeland Security is not pleased with the leftist mayor’s in-your-face stunt:
These actions by sanctuary Mayor Michelle Wu are unhinged.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) August 18, 2026
She knows she has NO authority to block us from using private property.
So she’s hunting down private property owners and threatening them for working with ICE — because she’d rather intimidate law-abiding Bostonians… pic.twitter.com/ZmYsjCSt9H
These actions by sanctuary Mayor Michelle Wu are unhinged.
She knows she has NO authority to block us from using private property.
So she’s hunting down private property owners and threatening them for working with ICE — because she’d rather intimidate law-abiding Bostonians than get criminal illegal aliens OFF the street.
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Wu was responding to a notice ICE posted on a government website seeking property owners in cities around the country willing to lease parking lots for potential operations. They said they could need as many as 249 in Boston, although no specific op has been announced. In February, Wu had already given them the proverbial finger, signing an executive order prohibiting federal officials from using city property for immigration enforcement purposes and directing local police to investigate any potential crimes committed by federal agents.
Meanwhile, as ICE points out, it’s Massachusetts residents who Wu and Gov. Maura Healey are putting at risk:
These are the types of sick criminal aliens that Gov. Healey and Mayor Wu seek to protect. https://t.co/WRn1b1j8qF
— ICE Boston (@EROBoston) August 17, 2026
You could say a lot of things about Michelle Wu — but almost none of them would be nice.
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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