Boston Mayor Wu Blasted by Feds for Comparing Masked ICE Agents to Neo-Nazi Group

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was blasted again by federal officials for her criticism of immigration enforcement in the city, this time for her “sickening” remarks comparing the mask-wearing ICE authorities to a prominent neo-Nazi group.

The comparison drew a scathing response from the President Donald Trump’s White House on Thursday night.

“Boston Mayor Michelle Wu doubled down on her disgusting, dangerous attacks on law enforcement yesterday when she compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to neo-Nazis — just days after the so-called ‘sanctuary city’ mayor smeared ICE and other federal agents as ‘secret police,’” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement.

“If the mayor had any shame, she’d be embarrassed for fanning the flames of hate while ICE agents face unprecedented threats to themselves and their families — but that’d be asking too much in today’s Democrat Party. She’s denigrating the same agents who just removed nearly 1,500 criminal illegal immigrants from the streets of her state, in the largest-ever immigration enforcement operation,” Jackson added.

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The mayor, who has tussled with the Trump administration and Congress over immigration and mass deportations, told the outlet that people are “getting snatched off the street by secret police who are wearing masks and can offer no justification for why certain people are being taken and then detained.”

Foley called the mayor’s comments a “gross misrepresentation and disservice to the public,” saying that ICE authorities are “arresting individuals who are here illegally, which is a violation of federal law.”

“Federal agents in marked jackets and vests are masking their faces because people like Mayor Wu have created false narratives about their mission,” Foley said. “Federal agents and their children are being threatened, doxxed and assaulted. That is why they must hide their faces.”

Wu doubled down on her remarks to reporters Wednesday, but went a step further, by seemingly comparing ICE agents who wear masks to the neo-Nazi group, NSC-131, saying that they are “intimidating residents.”

“I don’t know of any police department that routinely wears masks,” Wu said. “We know that there are other groups that routinely wear masks. NSC-131 routinely wears masks.”

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