Operation Patriot, the largest ever ICE operation, resulted in the arrest of nearly 1,500 illegals, including murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and child sex predators, in the deep blue sanctuary city-heavy state of Massachusetts.
Operation Patriot concluded on Saturday after netting 1,461 illegal aliens throughout the Greater Boston area and the state of Massachusetts, which includes numerous sanctuary jurisdictions.
Prior to this, the largest ICE operation was Operation Tidal Wave in Florida, which netted 1,120 arrests.
Fox News was told Operation Patriot was significantly more difficult because, unlike Florida, ICE received no local assistance from Massachusetts sanctuary jurisdictions.
The sources said “hundreds” of the arrested targets had been released by local sanctuary jurisdictions with ICE detainers ignored.
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In the deep blue sanctuary state of Massachusetts, the largest ICE operation ever, Operation Patriot, led to the arrest of almost 1,500 criminals, including rapists, murderers, drug traffickers, and child sex predators.
Following the capture of 1,461 illegal aliens across the Greater Boston area and the state of Massachusetts, which includes several sanctuary jurisdictions, Operation Patriot came to an end on Saturday.
Of those detained, 277 had final removal or deportation orders, and 790 had criminal convictions or charges, according to ICE sources who spoke to Fox News. According to the sources, prior to their capture, all of the targeted criminals were free to roam the streets of Massachusetts cities.
Authorities from the FBI, DEA, and ATF were involved in the operation, which took place throughout May and involved ICE teams from other Northeastern states.
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As part of this operation, ICE Boston embedded Fox News on Thursday. Within a few hours of Fox News being integrated with ICE, agents apprehended a murderer, two child rapists—one of whom lived next to a playground—one fentanyl trafficker, one adult rapist, and one child sexual assaulter.
Operation Tidal Wave in Florida, which resulted in 1,120 arrests, was the biggest ICE operation before this. Operation Patriot was reportedly much more challenging for Fox News because, in contrast to Florida, Massachusetts sanctuary jurisdictions did not provide ICE with any local support.
According to sources, the action was a direct reaction to Massachusetts and Boston officials’ refusal to work with ICE.
According to the sources, local sanctuary jurisdictions have freed “hundreds” of the arrested targets while ignoring ICE detainers. Additionally, ICE claimed that anti-ICE activist groups in Massachusetts interfered with it on a daily basis.
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ICE’s actions in Massachusetts have prompted outrage from Democratic Governor Maura Healey. On Sunday night, Healey took to social media to call for answers following the arrest of 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes, a junior at Milford High School in Milford, Massachusetts, and an illegal.
In her post, Healey expresses her “disturbed and outraged” feelings and demands an explanation for the student’s detention by immigration authorities right away.
Healey claimed, “We are all less safe because the Trump Administration keeps inciting fear in our communities. “.”.
The list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” has been removed from Homeland Security’s website.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons addressed the opposition from Massachusetts leaders at a press conference on Monday, stating: “We wouldn’t have to go out to the communities and do this if sanctuary cities would change their policies and turn these violent criminal aliens over to us into our custody instead of releasing them into the public.”. “,”.
The operation “just demonstrated that we need to return and that we will continue to return because ICE is going to make sure that we keep our neighborhood and community safe from these sex offenders and these criminal aliens,” Lyons said. “.”.
The news conference took place on the same day that Lorenzo Lopez Alcario, an illegal alien in Massachusetts, was charged with violent child rape. Fox News Digital was able to obtain a copy of the charges, which state that the child was bound at the time of the rape.
In his remarks on the arraignment and Operation Patriot, former Massachusetts migrant shelter director Jon Fetherston told Fox News Digital that Democratic Governor Maura Healey’s opposition to federal immigration enforcement operations is “not only unsafe for ICE agents, it’s unsafe for all of us’.”. “.”.
According to Fetherston, Healey’s policies are “fostering a lawless environment in which federal law enforcement does not target convicted criminals.”. “.
He remarked, “That’s recklessness, not compassion.”.
A request for comment from Fox News Digital was not immediately answered by Healey’s office.
