Sept. 6 (UPI) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement began an immigration law enforcement surge in Massachusetts and Boston this week, while challenging their sanctuary laws in federal court.
The Trump administration this week began the surge, dubbed Operation Patriot 2.0, in Massachusetts and Boston, The New York Times reported.
The surge is in advance of a similar surge anticipated in Chicago and another that is already underway in Washington, D.C., and comes as the Trump administration has started challenging city and state sanctuary laws in federal court.
The Justice Department on Thursday challenged the legality of Boston’s 11-year-old sanctuary city law, called the Boston Trust Act, which does not allow city police to transfer detainees to ICE or hold them for possible federal immigration law violations…