A member of the Boston Metropolis Council known as out Border Czar Tom Homan in a publish on social media, calling his guarantees to implement President Donald Trump’s border coverage “laughable.”
Councilwoman Sharon Durkan posted her response on X after Homan mentioned he would “bring hell” to Beantown after Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox lately doubled down on the town’s sanctuary insurance policies.
“You said you doubled down on not helping the law enforcement officers of ICE. I’m coming to Boston, and I’m bringing hell with me,” Homan mentioned on the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) on Saturday. “I looked at the numbers this morning… I stopped counting at nine. Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts, but rather than honoring an ICE detainer, you released them back into the street.”
“You’re not a police commissioner,” Homan continued. “Take that badge off your chest. Put it in the desk drawer. Because you became a politician. You forgot what it’s like to be a cop.”
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Sharon Durkin known as out Tom Homan in an X publish over the weekend. (Getty Photographs)
Durkan responded by mocking Homan for briefly serving as a police officer within the village of West Carthage, New York, within the Eighties. He turned a Border Patrol agent quickly after, and has since labored for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Obama administration, in addition to the primary Trump administration.
“Laughable that someone who spent their career policing a town smaller than a Fenway Park crowd thinks they can lecture Boston on public safety,” Durkan’s publish learn.
“Commissioner Michael Cox serves with distinction and earns trust with integrity,” the town official continued. “Tom Homan should know, we don’t scare easy.”
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Sharon Durkan as a Boston Metropolis Council District 8 candidate. (Picture by Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Photographs)
In a latest interview, Cox mentioned that Boston “doesn’t enforce detainers” which are filed by ICE, per Massachusetts regulation.
“We just don’t do that,” Cox mentioned on a section of WCVB’s “On the Record” present. “We don’t enforce civil detainers regarding federal immigration law. It’s defined here in the state, and that’s just how it works.”
The Boston workplace of ICE’s Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO) has overseen the arrest of a number of legal migrants in latest weeks, together with MS-13 gang members.
Earlier this month, ERO Boston officers apprehended an unlawful alien from Guatemala who was charged with a number of counts of kid rape.
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Tom Homan, U.S. President Donald Trump’s border czar, speaks to reporters on the White Home in Washington, U.S., February 6, 2025. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Fox Information Digital reached out to Durkan for remark, however didn’t instantly hear again.
Fox Information Digital’s Peter Pinedo and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
