Massachusetts is now a little bit safer, no thanks to that state's government, nor the government of the "sanctuary" city of Boston - but thanks to Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the direction of border czar Tom "The Hammer" Homan, who announced Tuesday that nearly 400 illegal aliens have been rounded up in and around Boston.

The U.S. Customs and Enforcement agency (ICE) announced that a massive operation in Massachusetts resulted in nearly 400 arrests, including over 200 apprehensions of illegal immigrants who had serious criminal convictions or charges.

"The Commonwealth is a safer place for our residents to live and work because ICE and our federal law enforcement partners arrested hundreds of alien offenders and removed them from the streets of Massachusetts," ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde said in a press release.

The operation, which took place between March 18 and March 23, netted the arrests of 370 illegal immigrants in the Boston area. Among those, 205 of the migrants arrested had "significant criminal convictions or charges," the release noted, including six who were "currently facing charges or convictions for murder, drug trafficking, organized crime, and money laundering."

Note those numbers: 205 with significant criminal convictions or charges, including six either facing charges or already having been convicted of murder, drug trafficking, organized crime, and money laundering.

These are the people Boston's Mayor Michelle Wu is defending; these are people she wants to keep in Boston.

The raids came despite Boston's status as one of several so-called "sanctuary" cities across the country, jurisdictions that restrict local cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Boston’s Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu has doubled down on those policies in recent days, vowing to continue protecting illegal immigrants in the city during her State of the City address last week.

"No one tells Boston how to take care of our own, not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies," she said.

"You belong here," she told immigrants.

Here's the thing, Madam Mayor: The federal government is in charge of immigration policy, not you, and in these matters, the federal Department of Homeland Security and ICE have jurisdiction anywhere in the United States. Boston was born facing down armed invaders under the control of a foreign tyrant, and now you propose to allow armed invaders under no control to maintain a presence in one of America's most historic cities.

They don't belong here. And thanks to ICE, they will be leaving.

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One of the better things the Trump administration has done is to face down these "sanctuary" cities and the people who keep thumping their chests and claiming that illegal aliens "belong" in those cities. They don't. President Trump and Tom Homan clearly have no regard whatsoever for Mayor Wu's concerns, nor for the concerns of any "sanctuary" city officials. They are doing their job, enforcing not only the border but immigration law, and they have every legal right to come into your leftist-run cities and pick these people up.

Boston is now a little safer, and Boston and Massachusetts voters should not that this is despite, not because of, Mayor Wu's efforts.

Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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