BOSTON – In a year-end interview with WBZ-TV, Gov. Maura Healey had a message for the handful of Massachusetts communities that designate themselves as “sanctuary” cities for immigrants.
Immigration in Massachusetts
“We are not a sanctuary state. If you come here, there is not housing here, and I think that’s been effective in changing the trajectory of [migration to Massachusetts],” Healey said.
Healey joined WBZ-TV for a two-part interview. The second part will air December 29.
“I don’t really understand what that terminology means in practice, because I guess I come to this also as a former prosecutor and Attorney General,” Healey said. “I can tell you that when it comes to criminal investigations of violent crime, of drug trafficking, gun trafficking, human trafficking, today, and this has always been the case, local law enforcement, state law enforcement, working with federal law enforcement, will continue to do that work.”