Boston (AP) – Todd Lyon, Executive Director of Immigration and Customs Execution, defended the use of his agent’s masks on Monday and expressed disappointment in the jurisdiction of the shrine, which he says hinders the detainees of immigrants who are illegally in the country.
Lyon said his agents were wearing masks because they and their families were dooxx and “purposeful” for death threats.
“I’m sorry if people insult they carry masks, but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go there and give their lives at the line, their family on the line because people don’t like what is immigration,” he said.
Lyon presented comments at a press conference at the Boston Federal Court House to report the end of the May operation of nearly 1,500 immigrants in the state of Massachusetts. He left the room when the reporter asked him about the masks. He turned around and returned to the podium to answer.
“Is this a question we just get upset about the masks?” He asked the journalist room. “Or maybe someone is upset because the families of ice officers were marked with terrorists?”
During the operation of last month, Massachusetts’ authorities detained 1,461 immigrants living in Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, Lawrence, Nantucket, Martha vineyard and other communities. ICE stated that 790 of those immigrants had a criminal history, including a crime when the US was re -involved in the US after deportation, and that 277 had previously been ordered to be removed from the country’s federal immigration judge.
Lyon, who comes from Boston, said that these operations would not be necessary if “shrine cities change their policy.” There is no legal definition of Sanctuar City policy, but they usually limit local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration officials. The courts have repeatedly supported the legality of the laws of the Holy See.
Last week, the Homeland Security Department published a widely awaited list of Sanctuary Jurisdictions on its website to only receive extensive criticism of the places that actively supported the short immigration policy of short administrations.
Since Monday, it has been a “page not found” error message.
March During the congress meeting, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and other Democratic mayors defended Sanctuary’s policies. Brandon Johnson from Chicago said “false descriptions and fears,” the fact that crime in Chicago was decreasing.
“This federal administration makes a hardworking, tax payment, the divine population is afraid to live their lives,” Wu said.
During the Monday press conference, a poster board with unnamed immigrant cups was exhibited. There was no list of the detainees, nor was there any information about the crimes that specific persons were accused of commitment.
Lyon called them “dangerous criminals” who “terrorize family, friends and our neighbors.”
Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House, the main engine of the Trump’s administration’s immigration policy, said the administration was 3000 arresting a goal each day and that the number could rise above.
Lyon said in an interview with Fox & Friends on Sunday that the agency had an average of about 1600 arrests a day. He said they could and would do more. This denotes an increase in the previous ice arrest data, which showed that the agency arrested 78,155 people from January 20 to May 19, an average of 656 arrests per day.
Lyon heads the agency D. Trump’s mass deportations at the center of the agenda. It was only last week that the agency suffered a second major reorganization after the Trump took office as the head of the ICE execution and removal Operations Division and the Head of the Homeland Security Research Division of the ICE moved to another role.
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AP journalist Rebecca Santana contributed to this Washington report.