Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (D) appears to have reversed her previous positions on sanctuary policies and immigration.
In two separate interviews with boston globe and boston herald “We are not a sanctuary state,” Mr. Healey insisted this week.
“Governor Healey's recent comments stand in stark contrast to her statements celebrating Massachusetts' status as a sanctuary state.”
Although there is no clear definition of protected area jurisdiction, some policy is usually associated with the term, and it is typically used to classify a particular state or city as such. One such policy involves refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Massachusetts I don't Comply with the detention requests of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Additionally, the state is the only state in the country with a right of refuge, which requires all pregnant women and families with children under 21 to receive housing.
After President-elect Donald Trump secured victory in the 2024 election, Healey was one of several Democratic politicians who vowed to resist his mass deportation efforts.
She said the Massachusetts State Police would “absolutely not cooperate” with the president-elect's plans. Healey also promised to use “every tool in the toolbox” to “protect” illegal aliens residing in the state.
This week, Healy appears to have made a U-turn.
She told the Boston Herald that the cost of providing housing for the large number of foreigners flocking to the state was “huge.”
“Our budget is limited, and our emergency shelter system was designed specifically for Massachusetts families experiencing homelessness and housing instability who are in need of temporary shelter,” Healy said. said. “We're aiming for a place where the emergency shelter is temporary and is actually there for a limited purpose for families.”
Healy said he believes “violent criminals should be deported if they are not here legally.”
She told the Boston Herald that local, state and federal law enforcement agencies need to work together to eliminate these threats.
“I think what we have to do is work together here in Massachusetts to do both. Investigate illegal aliens and people who have engaged in criminal activity, hold them accountable, and make sure we do what is necessary.” and deport them accordingly. We will also absolutely advocate and protect the people who have worked here, gone to school here, raised their children here, and are not afraid to go to the doctor, to drop off their children, to go to school, to work. That's what we do,” Healy said.
She argued it would reduce the number of taxpayers going into the state's emergency shelter system.
Healey told the Boston Globe that he hopes to find common ground with the incoming administration on immigration.
“He controls Congress and the Senate,” she said, referring to Trump. “And I hope he acts on that, that we get comprehensive immigration reform, that our borders are strengthened, that we open a path to citizenship for people who have come here to work, contributed to the economy, and paid taxes. I hope so.”
“The governor's comments are the reason people are losing confidence in their elected officials,” Paul Craney of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance told Blaze News.
“Voters want truth from their elected officials, and they don't want more gaslighting,” he continued. “Governor Healey's recent comments echo her celebration of Massachusetts as a sanctuary and her opposition to some of the Trump administration's efforts to deport undocumented and undocumented immigrants once President-elect Trump takes office. This is in stark contrast to his recent statements in which he boasted about doing things like “immigrants.'' ”
“No one believes it, but her consultant is telling her to say it,” Craney added.
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