President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to crack down on sanctuary jurisdictions impeding federal immigration enforcement.
The directive requires the Justice Department to compile a list of all sanctuary city jurisdictions and then take action to cut off or suspend federal funding to those places. Under Trump, cities across the country, like Boston, have already made it difficult for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to apprehend illegal immigrants.
&#8220;This invasion at the southern border requires the Federal Government to take measures to fulfill its obligation to the States,&#8221; Trump wrote in the executive order. &#8220;Yet some State and local officials nevertheless continue to use their authority to violate, obstruct, and defy the enforcement of Federal immigration laws. This is a lawless insurrection against the supremacy of Federal law and the Federal Government&#8217;s obligation to defend the territorial sovereignty of the United States.&#8221;
After the list of sanctuary jurisdictions is published, those entities would be given the chance to comply with federal law. If they don&#8217;t comply, they could lose federal funding.
The executive order also directs the Justice Department and Homeland Security to ensure that federal benefits are not provided to illegals in sanctuary jurisdictions and to &#8220;take appropriate action to stop the enforcement of State and local laws, regulations, policies, and practices favoring aliens over any groups of American citizens that are unlawful, preempted by Federal law, or otherwise unenforceable.&#8221;
The White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-protects-american-communities-from-criminal-aliens/">provided</a> examples of sanctuary jurisdictions refusing to cooperate with ICE. For example, authorities in Massachusetts declined to hold multiple illegal immigrants accused of raping children. The White House also said that officials in Philadelphia ignored an ICE detainer on a Honduran man who went on to rape a child.
Earlier this month, Trump called sanctuary jurisdictions &#8220;death traps&#8221; and promised to cut off federal funding.
&#8220;No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Criminals, not the Victims. They are disgracing our Country and are being mocked all over the World,&#8221; he posted on Truth Social. &#8220;Working on papers to withhold all Federal Funding for any City or State that allows these Death Traps to exist!!!&#8221;
While some jurisdictions have doubled down on their sanctuary status, New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has walked back some of his city&#8217;s lax immigration policies. Earlier this month, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayor-adams-reverses-sanctuary-policy-restores-ice-presence-on-rikers-island" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that ICE would be allowed to resume operations at Rikers Island jail to target criminal gangs and drug trafficking, reversing a previous policy banning the agency from the facility. Adams did specify that NYC would work with ICE on criminal matters, not civil.

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BOSTON—The Daily Wire joined U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons and his agents in Greater Boston as they hunted down criminal illegal aliens.
The operation comes as President Donald Trump marks his first 100 days in office, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homan-does-indeed-bring-hell-to-boston-much-more-to-do-but-it-will-be-done" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border Czar Tom Homan</a> vows to “go to Boston and bring hell with me” in an effort to arrest illegal aliens who have sexually assaulted children.
“We did more arrests in these 100 days than the previous administration did last year,” Lyons told The Daily Wire in his first interview.
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Lyons became the acting director of ICE in March after five years as Boston Field Office Director. He said morale is at an all-time high following the Trump administration giving the support needed to remove illegal aliens.
ICE is focused on deporting the “worst of the worst” that the Biden administration ignored, like violent criminal illegal aliens or those who have been deported before.
“It’s the worst crime in the world when you sexually assault a child,” <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1916861488616133083" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Homan said</a> in a White House press briefing on Monday. “That’s why I made a statement that one time I was going to go to Boston and bring hell with me.”
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During the ride-along on Friday, ICE arrested 55-year-old Miguel Angel Chavez, who was convicted on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and deported in 2013. Chavez, a citizen of El Salvador, illegally re-entered the United States at an unknown place and time following his first deportation.
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The second arrestee during the mission was 69-year-old Jose Lazaro Ayala, who illegally entered the country undetected and was convicted in September of leaving the scene of an accident involving an injured person or death. Ayala is pending removal to El Salvador, according to ICE.
“These aren&#8217;t the people you want in your neighborhood,” Lyons said. “These arrests right here show what we&#8217;ve done these first 100 days and what Secretary Noem and President Trump have been really pushing for: that ICE gets the worst of the worst.”
ICE was unable to target three other criminal illegal aliens in the mission, possibly because poor weather kept them from going to their outdoor jobs.
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The Daily Wire witnessed firsthand the challenges ICE is facing in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-biden-first-president-to-intentionally-leave-border-unsecured" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sanctuary jurisdictions</a> during the ride-along. According to Lyons, migrants are attracted to places like Massachusetts because of its generous social service benefits. Numerous sanctuary cities make deportations more difficult by often refusing to cooperate with ICE.
“One of the big difficulties operating in our sanctuary jurisdiction is that these are actual public safety threats,” he said. “A jail, a police department, a sheriff&#8217;s department, and state police have deemed these individuals a public safety threat and locked them up. Yet instead of working with the federal government, they decide to release them back on the street.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-doubles-down-on-defying-trump-deportations-as-ma-police-arrest-migrants-for-child-rape" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BOSTON MAYOR DOUBLES DOWN ON DEFYING TRUMP DEPORTATIONS AS MA POLICE ARREST MIGRANTS FOR CHILD RAPE</a>
Lyons said that in sanctuary jurisdictions, agents have to work harder to surveil targets and gather information about them to plan arrests.
“For these two today, anywhere between 40 to 80 hours could have been put in just on surveillance in research into these crimes, because, number one, there are ghosts,” he said.
“The state doesn&#8217;t provide us driver&#8217;s license data, registration data. So really, the men and women of ICE have to go and create these cases on their own and then get out there and do surveillance and try to get court and police records.”
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By not working with ICE, sanctuary cities increase the number of deportations, according to Lyons. Instead of simply picking up criminal illegal aliens at jails, ICE is forced to track them down at their workplaces or in their neighborhoods. This often results in other illegal aliens — violent criminals or not — being arrested as well.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayors-of-boston-chicago-denver-and-nyc-called-to-testify-in-congress-over-sanctuary-city-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MAYORS OF BOSTON, CHICAGO, DENVER AND NYC CALLED TO TESTIFY IN CONGRESS OVER SANCTUARY CITY POLICIES</a>
Lyons credited ICE’s recent success to Trump’s whole-of-government approach, which pairs ICE with agents from other federal agencies, including the FBI, DEA, IRS, Diplomatic Security Service, and others.
“With no doubt, ICE is helping the president establish his goals and his pledges that he made during the campaign, which was to get the worst of the worst outside of our communities, and I think this first hundred days have been a great success,” Lyons said.

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A Republican wearing a pro-Trump hat was followed and harassed by a man who swore at him and repeatedly called him a Nazi on Thursday, according to video of the Boston incident.
Nicky Miceli, a state committeeman for the Massachusetts GOP representing the Middlesex and Norfolk District, was walking down the street in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, when he was approached by a man screaming at him for wearing a hat emblazoned with a 47 on it for President Donald Trump.
“He saw me wearing the hat that said ‘47’ and proceeded to shout profanities and spit on my foot,” Miceli told The Daily Wire. “I immediately started recording as he repeatedly screamed and spit on my face.”
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In the video, the unnamed man is seen repeatedly calling Miceli a Nazi and telling him to get off his campus.
“You’re on my f**king campus with that f**king hat on, get the f**k out of here,” the man shouted.
In response, Miceli pointed out he was walking down a public street near Wentworth University, but not on campus.
“Take your f***king fascist hat off,” the man said with several profanities. “Look at this f**king Nazi. 47. This guy supports Trump, has his f**king hat on.”
At one point, the man sees a group of people and encourages them to taunt Miceli. 
“Take your gay f**king white gold Trump hat off,” The man said. “He’s a f**king loser and you’re a f**king Nazi punk. Boo this co******er, boo him!&#8221;
Once Miceli reached a corner, the man shouted some more before he finally stopped following him.
The belligerent man appeared to be wearing a hat from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 103, the union representing electricians and telecommunications specialists in Boston.
“I wear the hat often to practice my freedom of speech and expression,” Miceli said. “I think it’s just years of being gaslighted by the media into being so hateful.”
Miceli said he got the hat at TPUSA’s America Fest in Arizona last December.
IBEW 103 did not respond to a request for comment.

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After saying he would go to Boston, “bringing hell with me” after the Boston police commissioner said he would not aid ICE in finding illegal immigrants, border czar Tom Homan was accused of lying about the city by its Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu. On Monday, Homan reported that he had made good on his promise and led a team that reportedly found 370 illegal aliens in Boston and surrounding areas, with a majority being significant criminals.
On February 16, Democrat-appointed Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/boston-police-commissioner-doubles-down-ice-resistance-we-dont-enforce-detainers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">echoed</a> Wu, who had promised resistance to the deportations enforced by the Trump administration. Cox said Boston police officers “don’t have authority to enforce federal immigration law.” When asked if his perspective countered federal immigration law, Cox said the Boston Police Department has pretty defined rules and abides by state law.
Speaking at CPAC on February 22, Homan said he would go to Boston while quoting Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in the classic Western film “Tombstone”:
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I read a story last night, the police commissioner of Boston, You said you’d double down on not helping the law enforcement officers of ICE. I’m coming to Boston. I’m bringing hell with me. 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, released them back into the street. You’re not a police commissioner; take that badge off your chest, put it in the desk drawer. You became a politician. You forgot what it’s like to be a cop. And guess what? The men and women of Immigration and Custom Enforcement, they found those predators, and they’re locked back up, and we’re going to deport them from the United States.
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Roughly two weeks later, Wu <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/573946825689920" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before Congress, stating, “Let’s talk about Tom Homan. Shame on him for lying about my city, for having the nerve to insult our police commissioner, who has overseen the safest Boston has been in anyone’s lifetime.”
On Monday, Homan, a former police officer, fired back. He stated on X:
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I made a promise at CPAC that I was going to Boston after reading about numerous illegal alien child rapists walking the streets of Boston and Massachusetts. ICE had to find and arrest these illegal alien rapists because Massachusetts and Boston are sanctuaries that refuse to cooperate with ICE. They would rather release these animals back into the community rather than honor ICE detainers or notify ICE when they are scheduled to be released.  Mayor Chu later testified that I was lying. Well, I traveled to Boston last Tuesday, as promised, and we kicked off a five day operation with ICE, FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshals and DSS. These incredible men and women arrested a total of 370 Illegal aliens in Boston and surrounding areas.  A majority of the 370 being significant criminals. 
These arrests included 6 foreign fugitives, including four who were wanted for murder or to serve a criminal sentence for murder, along with drug traffickers, child sexual predators and numerous other violent public safety threats.  These officers and agents made the neighborhoods of Boston and Massachusetts much safer.  They risked their own safety by arresting these criminals on the street, rather than a jail. Governor Healy and Mayor Wu should be ashamed of supporting sanctuary policies.  Releasing public safety threats back into the public, rather than working with ICE at the jails, puts the public at great risk. President Trump’s &#8220;all of government effort&#8221; to arrest and remove the WORST FiRST is making our communities safer every day.  President Trump is a Game Changer who is keeping his promises to the American people. Much more to do, but it will be done!
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I made a promise at CPAC that I was going to Boston after reading about numerous illegal alien child rapists walking the streets of Boston and Massachusetts. ICE had to find and arrest these illegal alien rapists because Massachusetts and Boston are sanctuaries that refuse to…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Boston, Massachusetts, reportedly claimed that illegal immigrant offenders were being put back on the streets after being slapped with &#8220;ridiculously low bail&#8221; despite the fact that the charges against them included violent sex crimes involving children, according to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin.
Melugin shared details uncovered in a CBS Boston <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/massachusetts-immigrants-charged-violent-crimes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> that he said proved those allegations to be true.
&#8220;NEW: CBS looked into ICE Boston claims that illegal aliens charged w/ child rape in MA are repeatedly being released from jail w/ ridiculously low bail. They found that yes, they are, including the following in recent months,&#8221; Melugin began before laying out a partial list of what had been discovered: &#8220;Guatemalan charged w/ 3 counts of aggravated child rape released on $7,500 bail. (ICE detainer ignored); Guatemalan charged w/ aggravated child rape, (victim age 9 or below) released on $7,500 bail. (ICE detainer ignored); Honduran charged w/ assault to rape &amp; masked armed robbery released on his own recognizance with $0 bail. (ICE detainer ignored); Worcester County had two illegal alien inmates charged w/ child rape who both received $500 bails; Another was charged w/ fentanyl trafficking and released on $4,000 bond before ICE could arrive.&#8221;
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NEW: CBS looked into ICE Boston claims that illegal aliens charged w/ child rape in MA are repeatedly being released from jail w/ ridiculously low bail. They found that yes, they are, including the following in recent months:
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Border czar Tom Homan had put a spotlight on Boston during the Conservative Political Action Conference, telling Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox, &#8220;You&#8217;re not a police commissioner. Take that badge off your chest. Put it in the desk drawer.&#8221;
Homan said at the time that Boston authorities were releasing illegal immigrant offenders back into the community despite ICE detainers ordering them to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
A Massachusetts state law barring illegal immigrants from being held solely on the basis of their immigration status has muddied the waters some, especially after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2017 that illegal immigrant offenders could not be held once they posted bail — even if there was an ICE detainer involved — pursuant to that law (Lunn v. Commonwealth).
&#8220;Massachusetts law provides no authority for Massachusetts court officers to arrest and hold an individual solely on the basis of a Federal civil immigration detainer, beyond the time that the individual would otherwise be entitled to be released from State custody,&#8221; the ruling stated.

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Massachusetts Under Investigation For Allegedly Low-Balling Bail For Violent Sex Offenders

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Ken Casey, lead singer of the Celtic punk rock band Dropkick Murphys, didn’t hold back his opinion of a fan who attended a show in Boston over the weekend with a MAGA hat in tow.
He began his rant by saying that Republicans “all wear” a “Chinese f***ing red” MAGA hat, which he claims is “dyeing their brains.” Casey continued, saying, “They&#8217;ve got the black-on-black Elon Musk, true Nazi edition. And then my man here, he&#8217;s getting ready for summer with a nice, f***in&#8217; white one.&#8221;
“Bro, listen, I admire your dedication,” the Dropkick Murphys singer continued while addressing the fan, “But I will ask everyone, if you’re in a room full of people and you want to know who’s in a cult, how do you know who’s in a cult?” He pointed at the fan. “They’ve been holding up a f***ing hat the whole night to represent a president.”
“This is America,” he yelled, “there’s no kings here!”
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As the audience cheered, Casey said, “Anyway, anyway, if you mind, sir, we’re gonna play a song about our grandparents and people who fought Nazis in the war and s***. So if you could just shut the f*** up for five minutes.”
The band has singled out Trump voters in the past. At a show in Clearwater, Florida, in March, Casey made headlines for singling out a fan wearing MAGA gear and betting that the items he was wearing were not made in the United States.
“The reason we speak out, we don’t care if we lose fans, because when history is said and done, we want it known that the Dropkick Murphys stood with the people, we stood with the workers,” Casey said at the time. “It’s all a f***ing scam, guys.”
He also <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/punk-singer-dropkick-murphys-bet-maga-shirt-made-usa-2042315">bragged</a> that Dropkick Murphys “always sells proudly made in America merchandise only.” Casey said to the concertgoer, “And here’s the bet I’d like to make: If you lose the bet, we switch shirts, OK? If you win the bet, I give you $100 and the shirt.”
“It’s made in Nicaragua!” Casey said from the stage. “He’s taking the shirt off. We’re taking crime off the streets.”
The band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1996 with Casey being the only remaining original member. Dropkick Murphys are known for taking influence from Irish heritage when creating their music.

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The following is an excerpt taken from the new book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Jester-Became-King-Unauthorized/dp/B0DV3W4QBN/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How the Jester Became King: Dave Portnoy and the Real Unauthorized Story of Barstool Sports.</a>&#8221; by Charlie Stanton (Post Hill Press, December 2024)
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October 2003
Dave was sweaty and beyond exhausted as he bent down to drop off a stack of newspapers next to his bin at the Alewife T-Station in Cambridge. Sporting his questionable goatee and a beat-up Red Sox hat, his skin reeked of the cigar he had smoked inside his maroon 1992 Plymouth minivan while he trudged from station to station. His breath was a mix of tobacco and the hot Italian beef sandwich he’d ordered in between stops. Portnoy needed a shower. As he leaned over to fill the bin, he paused. The sound of fabric ripping echoed across the brown quarry tiles that lined the floors and walls of the subway entrance. Commuters turned their heads at the noise, and their eyes fixated on Portnoy. He knew immediately what had happened:
<blockquote>“It might as well have been like a gunshot went off in Alewife Station. Everybody in Alewife and maybe all of Cambridge just froze. And I was reduced to doing the ‘Oh my god did I just split my pants?’ maneuver. This, of course, is when you have a glazed expression over your face as you feel your ass to see what the damage is. Honestly, it was like time froze for a couple minutes.”</blockquote>
It was an unseasonably warm fall afternoon, just a few months after Mike Portnoy had given his son his $25,000 blessing. Dave, who had quit his sales job and moved back home with his parents to save money, was now spending it hand-delivering his newspapers to more than 100 Barstool Sports bins he had placed around Boston — a job that made grad school look like Margaritaville.
After all of his bins were filled, Portnoy would begin handing out his newspapers to the public, aggressively. The streets of Boston weren’t for the faint of heart. “When we upgraded from black and white to color copies, I would be just screaming things like ‘We got color now! We’re so much better than these other (papers)!’ Whatever the hook was.” Like a vendor peddling overpriced beer at nearby Fenway Park, Portnoy would yell at – borderline berate – commuters to take a copy.
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Portnoy was on his own when it came to distribution following Barstool’s first issue on August 27, 2003, when the temp company Labor Ready he hired to help him sent him mostly drifters, half of whom didn’t show up. “Let’s just say they weren’t the most dedicated workers to ever come down the pike,” Portnoy explained. And according to Portnoy, the outfit in Atlanta where he bought newspaper bins, Go Plastics, wasn’t able to deliver the bins on time for the day of the launch, which only compounded this calamity. Most commuters were unable to find Portnoy’s newspapers, as Barstool Sports sat inconspicuously inside plastic bags next to other competitors’ fully marked bins.
Of the 40 train stations where workers were supposed to hand out copies of Dave’s paper that day, only about 15 operated as planned. Portnoy would eventually hire local models to hand out his papers, which, to no surprise, worked better but were too expensive to continue with. “Chaotic and nearly disastrous,” is how Dave described his paper’s first days in existence. Unbeknownst to Portnoy, it was a phrase that would become the narrative of Barstool’s entire operation for the next 20 years.
At the start of Portnoy’s maiden voyage, he was able to produce several thousand copies of his weekly newspaper. This was dwarfed by the daily circulation of the 450,000 newspapers The Boston Globe printed, and the 300,000 distributed by both The Boston Herald and Metro Boston, the city’s largest free paper. But eventually Barstool would reach a peak of 40,000 issues every other week, which was on par with most other alt-weekly publications such as The Phoenix or The Improper Bostonian. Reaching this number was an unlikely development to everyone around Dave in those early days, including his production manager Erin Boyce.
Boyce worked at The Daily Item of Lynn, a neighboring town’s paper; she had extensive experience inside the publishing industry and agreed to help Portnoy after connecting through a friend of a friend. “I really only thought it would last six, maybe 12 issues. I’ve been in the newspaper industry for many years, and to start a publication in a dying industry is kind of unheard of. Little did I know 200 issues later, it would become part of my life for almost nine years.”
Boyce’s help was invaluable, but there was no doubt the 26-year-old was doing the work of five people just to produce the meager eight-page publication. Originally, Portnoy published his newspaper once a week. Mondays were the busiest in terms of writing, and Dave often stayed up past 2 a.m. finishing the last articles for that week’s issue. Tuesdays, Portnoy took his work over to the nearby graphic designer, who worked with Boyce to lay out the paper. Later that day, the layout was taken to Boyce’s printer, and once the thousands of copies were printed, Portnoy filled up his beaten-down minivan to the brim. “When I pick up Barstool Sports from our printer company, I swear I can hear her scream. I actually think the bottom of the car scrapes against the cement when it is fully loaded.”
Wednesdays started at 4:30 a.m. Portnoy made the 45-minute drive south down Route 1A to Boston, dropping his publication off at the bins he had placed inside various T-stations. “I had bins at T-stops I didn’t know existed before that,” Portnoy said of his paper route. He also stopped at select stores, bars, and restaurants he somehow convinced to take his newspapers, like the Grand Canal bar near The Boston Garden or Bayview Liquors in Southie.
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After emptying his van around 9:00 a.m., Dave headed to a T station and handed out copies of Barstool Sports to commuters. Around noon, he drove back to Swampscott to write; call potential advertisers (the paper had fake ones and real ones); or fix whatever part of the business was melting down that day. Around 4:00 p.m., he drove back into Boston to hand out papers again until returning home, well after dinner.
As for the rest of the week, Thursday was a repeat of Wednesday, while Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were reserved for writing. And Portnoy would spend each Monday just like the previous one, cramming in last-minute changes until the candle was burned at both ends. Unsurprisingly, this routine began taking a toll on his health, but as 2004 approached, people slowly began to read Portnoy’s paper. “It was always a good reception and when I judged it, it would be 10 people who took the paper and said they enjoyed it the first time I did it. The next issue would be 20 people, and the next issue would be 40, and the next 80. So, it always was slowly growing and there was something in my gut that was like I’m on to something here.”
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This excerpt is taken from &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Jester-Became-King-Unauthorized/dp/B0DV3W4QBN/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0">How the Jester Became King: Dave Portnoy and the Real Unauthorized Story of Barstool Sports.</a>&#8221; by Charlie Stanton. Published by permission of Post Hill Press. 
Charlie Stanton currently resides in New York City. Stanton graduated from Wake Forest University with Honors in Economics in 2012. In his free time, the author enjoys playing pickleball, paddle, tennis, running, skiing, and spending time with his three younger brothers.
The views expressed in this book excerpt are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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One of the hardest things to do, especially when you&#8217;ve got a million other things going on in your life, is to think about the political tactics of people you don&#8217;t agree with. If you&#8217;re a conservative with a full-time job for example, it&#8217;s hard enough to keep track of what Republican politicians are saying, and what policies they&#8217;re implementing. It&#8217;s even harder to track what&#8217;s going on with the other side — especially since, if we&#8217;re being honest, we usually don&#8217;t want to think about it.
But there&#8217;s a significant change in tactics that&#8217;s taken place recently on the Left in this country that, at this point, cannot be ignored. We&#8217;ve known for a while that the Left is now, once again, openly celebrating political violence. That&#8217;s been obvious since the BLM era. What&#8217;s changing, more recently, is that the Left is becoming far more targeted in its attacks. Instead of torching random car lots in Kenosha and shooting security guards in St. Louis to demonstrate their solidarity with George Floyd, Leftists are now becoming more specific, if not necessarily discerning. Like all terrorists, they&#8217;re carefully choosing their victims, to maximize political impact. They tried to assassinate Trump twice, as we all remember. And now that Trump, as president, has the full protection of the Secret Service, they&#8217;re unleashing targeted violent attacks on people they perceive to be supporters of Trump, or enemies of their ideology. That started with the murder of the UnitedHealthCare CEO, but as we predicted, it&#8217;s not stopping there. We&#8217;re entering a potentially long-lasting phase of deliberate, targeted Left-wing terrorism in this country — like the Weather Underground, on steroids.
This is a change that is not happening by accident. In some cases, it&#8217;s coordinated and deliberate — and it&#8217;s very well-funded. But I want to start by highlighting exactly what&#8217;s happening, because for the most part, the national news media isn&#8217;t doing so. All across the country, Kamala Harris voters have made the conscious decision to attack anyone who owns a Tesla, or who works at Tesla. I&#8217;m not talking about one or two people here. I&#8217;m talking about mobs of Democrats who are assaulting other people, in public, because of their perceived political views.
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You may have seen the footage of shootings, firebombings and riots that have taken place at Tesla stores all over the country. And I&#8217;ll get to that in a second. But some of the most remarkable footage in this respect comes from New Orleans, this past Mardi Gras weekend. As part of the &#8220;Orpheus&#8221; parade, five Tesla Cybertrucks were carrying passengers through Uptown New Orleans. As the vehicles passed, for several miles, onlookers pelted the trucks with objects they found on the street — everything from beads to road barriers. At one point, a man charged the trucks and began punching the glass, which he ultimately shattered. He also threw an object at one of the passengers, after he gained access to the back of the vehicle. The footage from this convoy of Cybertrucks is truly incredible to watch. It&#8217;s like something out of a foreign country. Here&#8217;s some of it, as recorded by the camera on one of the trucks:
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Police were stationed all along the parade route. They saw everything that happened. But they made no arrests. They sat by, doing absolutely nothing, as the mob inflicted thousands of dollars&#8217; worth of property damage, solely because of the politics of the CEO of the company that made those trucks. As you might have seen, at one point in that footage, a mother encouraged her young child to join in with the mob and pummel the truck. 
Here&#8217;s what one of those vehicles looked like afterwards:
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Check out this footage from this parade, this time from the mob&#8217;s perspective. And as you watch, listen to the glee in their voices as they throw objects at people inside the CyberTrucks. And then ask yourself: When was the last time a mob of Right-wing protesters decided to team up and attack someone, solely because that person had purchased a product they don&#8217;t like? Has it ever happened in the entire history of this country? As critical as we were about Bud Light, did any mob of conservatives ever chase someone down and pummel them for ordering a Bud Light at a bar? I don’t think so. But that’s basically what happened in New Orleans just a few days ago. Watch:
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This footage is not the most extreme example of violence I could find, but it does illustrates how widespread this mob-like mentality has become on the Left. It&#8217;s not just a handful of Left-wing NGO&#8217;s who are pushing this (although that&#8217;s certainly happening, too). In reality, we&#8217;re talking about hundreds, if not thousands of people who are willing to make an American city feel like Fallujah for people who happen to be inside a truck they don&#8217;t like. And of course, this footage received thousands of positive &#8220;upvotes&#8221; on Reddit, which has become a central breeding ground for organizing and promoting Left-wing terrorism.
You&#8217;ll also find a lot of support on Reddit for the 41-year-old man who allegedly just threw Molotov cocktails at a Tesla location in Oregon, before returning shortly afterwards to open fire on the business with an assault rifle. Watch:
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Andy Ngo has reported that Adam Lansky, the man accused of committing these attacks, is a Portland trans activist who uses the alias &#8220;Allison Tesla&#8221; in his activism (and his pornography career). Meanwhile, another trans activist — Justin Thomas Nelson aka &#8220;Lucy Grace Nelson&#8221; — is accused of repeatedly attacking another Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado. Justin Nelson allegedly spray-painted the words “Nazi cars” on some of the vehicles, and then returned days later with Molotov cocktails before he was arrested. So he was booked, then let out on bond, then attacked the same Tesla location again. Of course, local news reports refer to &#8220;Justin&#8221; as a woman, because even when trans-identifying males are allegedly committing acts of arson, we have to respect their false identities.
Odds are, if you get your news from the mainstream press, you weren&#8217;t aware of any of this. You didn&#8217;t know that two trans-identifying Antifa activists are accused of attempting to firebomb Tesla dealerships in just the past month. And for that matter, you certainly weren&#8217;t aware that a trans-identifying suspect named Ryan Michael English — otherwise known as &#8220;Riley English — was arrested just a month ago, after arriving in D.C. with Molotov cocktails with the intention of assassinating members of Trump&#8217;s Cabinet. That&#8217;s according to court documents, which state. that Ryan has confessed.
This is an awful lot of violence that&#8217;s coming from a small subset of the population, in a very short period of time. It&#8217;s enough to make you wonder if men who pretend to be women might not be the most mentally stable individuals. And these are just the suspects we know about. Just a day after the FBI identified the suspect in the first attack on the Tesla store in Oregon, there was another shooting at a different Tesla location near Portland. Watch:
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These attacks aren&#8217;t just happening on the West Coast, of course. In Massachusetts, someone set fire to several Tesla &#8220;supercharger&#8221; locations, which Tesla owners use to charge their vehicles away from home. They’re like gas stations for electric vehicles. Watch:
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Within about 48 hours, Tesla had this location up-and-running again. So they were able to recover quickly from this particular act of vandalism, which every sane person would object to. But if you go on the Boston sub-reddit, you&#8217;ll find that they don&#8217;t object to this arson attack at all. Here&#8217;s one post on the Boston sub-reddit, for example:
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As you can see, they&#8217;re sarcastically saying that weather probably caused the blaze, and that it&#8217;s no big deal. Thousands of people are up-voting posts like this. There&#8217;s similar enthusiasm in New York, where protesters were just removed after attempting to shut down a Tesla store there. Those are protests, according to Elon Musk, that involved — at least in part — organizations that have received substantial funding from George Soros&#8217; nonprofit over the years.
But regardless of George Soros&#8217; culpability, there&#8217;s really no other way to interpret what&#8217;s happening here: We are witnessing a campaign of terrorism by the Left, which is openly being celebrated (if not coordinated) by thousands of Leftists using platforms like Reddit. And it&#8217;s leading everyday people to physically assault Tesla owners at every opportunity. This is footage from New York for example:
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We don&#8217;t have sound for this one, so in case you can&#8217;t see it, it&#8217;s some guy running alongside a Cybertruck, punching it repeatedly and giving the middle-finger to the occupants. And then at the end of the footage, a police car appears in frame. And of course the officer does nothing.
These kinds of attacks are becoming so common now that it&#8217;s impossible to keep up with them.
Late Sunday, the reporter Jonathan Choe uploaded this footage of Cybertrucks on fire in Seattle, in yet another suspected arson attack:
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No matter how hard you look, you will not find a single Democrat Party politician who is willing to condemn any of this violence. The &#8220;party of Democracy&#8221; is completely silent as Left-wing terrorists commit acts of political violence, all over the country, for the express purpose of intimidating Elon Musk and anyone who dared to vote for Donald Trump. And we all know why that is. They endorse all of it. The Democrat Party, and the media outlets they effectively control, have no problem with destroying the property of anyone they believe is a conservative. They also don&#8217;t mind destroying Tesla — one of the most important companies in the United States, which employs more than a hundred thousand people — in the process.
These are people who are not interested in progress, or the advancement of human civilization. They are the enemies of both. And, as if to prove that point, MSNBC anchors recently celebrated the explosion of SpaceX&#8217;s starship during a recent test launch. This is a test launch that, in case you missed it, included the &#8220;catch&#8221; of the booster rocket, which is one of the most remarkable technological achievements imaginable. But over at MSNBC, they didn&#8217;t even mention the booster catch. Instead, they burst out into song because the starship itself had exploded. Watch:
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We&#8217;ve done a lot of segments recently about how utterly dumb and inane Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is. But really, all we had to do is play that clip. &#8220;If only Musk had more DEI hires, maybe Starship wouldn&#8217;t have exploded.&#8221; That&#8217;s the logic they&#8217;re going with at MSNBC. That is how utterly shameless these people are. Because as we all know, when you need to achieve something that&#8217;s never been achieved before in human history, you call in the DEI hires. After all, DEI hires are how NASA landed on the moon.
Of course, none of these people — even Jasmine Crockett — believe any of this. For all their demonization of billionaires and corporations, the truth is that the Left has this intense hatred for Elon because they see him as a class traitor. They know that the wealthy are supposed to be on their side. Elon is not only an Uber-wealthy man, but also a man of great scientific achievement, and he should be a devotee to their cause. That&#8217;s why they reserve for him the special kind of hatred that you have not for enemies, but for traitors.
Just think for a moment about the absurdity of the clip you just saw. The man is building reusable rockets, for the purpose of making space travel affordable enough that we can colonize Mars in the near future. The whole point of these test launches is to gather data so that the next launch — in just a few weeks — can be a success. That&#8217;s why no one was or is onboard the Starship. It&#8217;s a test flight. And these test flights clearly work, as anyone familiar with SpaceX&#8217;s history — and its progress in just the past decade — understands very well.
But increasingly few people on the Left actually care about SpaceX, or Tesla, or Elon Musk, or any of that. Instead, they care about political control, which they&#8217;re obviously losing. So, in some cases, they&#8217;re resorting to terrorism instead. And on television, they&#8217;re turning to juvenile, barely-literate criticism of a space program they can&#8217;t begin to comprehend. It&#8217;s difficult not to be reminded of Roosevelt&#8217;s famous speech on insufferable people like this, from all the way back in 1910. &#8220;It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.” I won’t recite the whole thing for you. But if you don’t know it, google it. There is no better way to describe cable news hosts who laugh while a man builds rockets to Mars.
Shut out of political relevance, Leftists are turning to violence and terrorism. They will only intensify their efforts in the coming weeks. But with every arson attack, and every insufferable segment on MSNBC, they&#8217;re only highlighting two things. First of all, they are irrelevant. And secondly, the men in the arena — the people who are actually committed to moving this country forward — aren&#8217;t going anywhere.

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu offered &#8220;condolences&#8221; for the death of a knife-wielding attacker, sparking backlash online.
An off-duty police officer killed who police said was an attempted stabber during an altercation in a Chick-fil-A on Boylston Street in Boston on Saturday. The attacker tried to stab two people before he was shot.
Wu addressed the situation in remarks on Saturday, offering her “condolences” over the death of the knife-wielding man.
“My condolences and all of our thoughts are with family of the individual whose life has been lost,” Wu said at the start of her remarks during a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUQFon2PL4U" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a>.
Police said the knife attacker was shot after two people ran inside the restaurant being chased by the man with the knife. An off-duty officer inside the restaurant told the man to drop his knife. The man refused, and the officer shot him. The man later died at a hospital.
Wu’s comments sparked backlash online after an account on X called “Bostonians Against Mayor Wu” posted a clip of her remarks online.
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Tonight, a knife-wielding attacker tried to kill multiple people in Boston
Police stopped the threat and shot them<a href="https://twitter.com/MayorWu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MayorWu</a> went on television offering condolences—to the criminal
Unbelievable. This city cares more about protecting criminals than residents
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“How exactly did Boston vote for this again? I lived in the Back Bay area. It was one of the safest parts of the city. And she’s offering condolences????” Fox News contributor Joe Concha <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUQFon2PL4U" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale said Wu’s comments exemplified deeper issues within the Democratic Party.
“When you vote for the far left, it’s unequivocally a vote for protecting criminals first,” Lonsdale <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUQFon2PL4U" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. “Progressive-D is a vote for the massive grift machine that weaponizes empathy and naive people to plunder, and hates everything great and noble and successful about our civilization.”
Democrat New York city council member Robert Holden said his “party has lost the plot” over Wu’s remarks.
“Democrats have become the party of criminals. Here’s the mayor of Boston offering condolences to the criminal who was trying to stab multiple people and refused to drop his weapon when ordered by an off-duty cop,” Holden <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUQFon2PL4U" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. “My party has lost the plot — this is madness.”

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Boston apprehended an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who has been charged with raping a child.
Jose Fernando-Perez, 49, was arrested in Framingham, Massachusetts, on February 2, ICE <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-boston-arrests-illegal-guatemalan-national-charged-forcibly-raping-massachusetts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a>. He had been charged with three counts of forcible rape of a child and three counts of aggravated rape of a child in 2022 but was released by a judge.
“Jose Fernando-Perez has been charged with some horrific crimes against a minor in our commonwealth,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde said in the press release. “He is exactly the type of alien we are targeting with our ‘worst first’ policy. He posed a significant danger to the children of Massachusetts, and we will not tolerate such a threat to our community. ICE Boston will continue to prioritize the safety of our public by arresting and removing egregious alien offenders from our New England communities.”
It is unknown exactly when Fernando-Perez illegally entered the United States or where he crossed the border, but it is known that he wasn’t inspected, admitted, or paroled by any U.S. immigration officials, ICE said.
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He was first arraigned in Lynn District Court in Massachusetts on December 6, 2005, after allegedly leaving the scene of an accident with property damage and for having inaccurate license plates. He was convicted of those charges on October 19, 2012 – nearly seven years later.
On April 19, 2022, the district court arraigned Fernando-Perez for rape of a child by force but dismissed the case because he was indicted by the superior court. ICE lodged an immigration detainer against him with the Essex County House of Correction on May 16, 2022, but the Essex County Superior Court in Salem, Massachusetts, ignored that detainer. This court arraigned Fernando-Perez on six counts pertaining to the rape of a minor but released him on pre-trial conditions on October 6, 2022, according to ICE.
The Essex County Sheriff’s Office <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/horrific-crimes-guatemalan-man-accused-multiple-counts-child-rape-arrested-by-ice-officers/QRBHFNZCDNGQPB6VHBD4CDZJOM/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Boston 25 News that once a judge releases someone, they’re no longer in their custody, which is similar to what the Massachusetts Trial Court spokesperson told the outlet.
“In order to comply with Massachusetts law, court officers are prohibited from assisting or interfering with ICE agents in executing their obligations under Federal law,” the spokesperson told the outlet. “That means that a court officer will not interfere with ICE arresting an individual who has been released. On the other hand, court officers are prohibited from keeping a released individual in custody awaiting an ICE agent. Massachusetts Court officials do not have the authority to hold an individual in custody solely on the basis of a Federal Civil Immigration Detainer.”
After arresting Fernando-Perez, ICE served him with a notice to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge, and he remains in ICE custody.

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Professional race grifter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ibram-x-kendi">Ibram X. Kendi</a> is seeing his Boston University &#8220;Center for Antiracist Research&#8221; (CAR) close when its charter with the college expires on June 30, per the university’s <a href="https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/ibram-x-kendi-departing-boston-university/">website</a>.
The center currently has 12 staff members who will remain employed until the June closure. CAR was founded in 2020 following the massive public outcry stemming from the death of George Floyd. The center faced declining contributions and support beginning in 2023, when donors began to question what, if anything, the center was producing. 
The announcement comes after Kendi said he was leaving Boston University to become the director of the newly created Howard University Institute for Advanced Study in Washington, D.C.
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Ibram X. Kendi, Ph.D., as the director of the newly established Howard University Institute for Advanced Study.
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Boston University noted that in September 2023, &#8220;with public support having shifted and contributions waning,&#8221; the center &#8220;pursued a new strategy under Kendi,&#8221; which &#8220;included eliminating 19 staff positions.&#8221; Kendi was accused of financial mismanagement, but an audit done by BU found no evidence of wrongdoing, per <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/center-anti-racist-research-close-down-2024015">Newsweek</a>.
In the past, the center has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ibram-x-kendis-academic-center-focusing-on-antiracism-to-fire-staffers">sponsored projects</a> like creating an “antiracism curriculum,” an “antiracist book festival,” and “antiracism training for the workforce.”
The center described itself as &#8220;a full-service organization that translates antiracist ideas into action by unifying research, policy, narrative, and advocacy efforts. We take a rigorous, research-based, and integrative approach to transforming a racist society to an antiracist one.” 
It faced criticism for not producing any tangible research or assets during its existence despite being receiving millions of dollars in grant money and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/01/30/ibram-kendi-howard-university-bu/?isMobile=1">more than $50 million</a> in donations.
Kendi, whose real name is Ibram Henry Rogers, is the author of books like “Antiracist Baby” and “How to Be an Antiracist.” 
He said in a statement: “Despite all the headwinds we faced as a new organization founded during the pandemic and the intense backlash over critical race theory, I am very proud of all we envisioned, all we created, all we learned, all we achieved—the community we built, the people we helped and inspired.” 
Kendi concluded, “To all the faculty, staff, administrators, students, supporters, and Boston community members, I feel honored to have been able to do this work with you over the last five years. I am departing for an opportunity I could not pass up, but what connected us at CAR remains, especially during this precarious time. Our commitment to building an equitable and just society.”
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The mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City were invited to testify before the House Oversight Committee regarding their sanctuary city policies for illegal immigrants.
“Sanctuary jurisdictions and their misguided and obstructionist policies hinder the ability of federal law enforcement officers to effectuate safe arrests and remove dangerous criminals from American communities, making Americans less safe,” committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) wrote in the letters to each mayor.
Comer’s letter requested documents and information related to each city’s sanctuary policies and invited Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams to testify on February 11. 
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NEW: Boston&#8217;s Mayor Wu has been invited to testify in Congress about the city&#8217;s sanctuary city policies that &#8220;hinder the ability of federal law enforcement officers to effectuate safe arrests and remove dangerous criminals.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/gDj5fp78JD">pic.twitter.com/gDj5fp78JD</a>
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Comer also accused sanctuary jurisdictions of taking it “upon themselves to decide what laws they will and will not abide by all for the purpose of shielding removable aliens, especially criminals, from federal law enforcement.”
While there are 12 states and hundreds of cities that qualify as sanctuary jurisdictions, Comer said Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City “stand out in their abject failure to comply with federal law.”
Chairman Comer will be <a href="https://x.com/GOPoversight/status/1883998691507462467/photo/4">launching an investigation</a> into the mayors, according to a post on X by the House Oversight Committee.
“All four major cities are sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, which is impacting public safety and the effectiveness of federal efforts to enforce the immigration laws of the United States,” the tweet states.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-doubles-down-on-defying-trump-deportations-as-ma-police-arrest-migrants-for-child-rape">previously reported</a> on Wu’s plans to defy Trump&#8217;s deportations in November, stating she had no intention of rolling out the welcome mat” for the Trump administration.
“What we can do is make sure that we are doing our part to protect our residents in every possible way; that we are not cooperating with those efforts that actually threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear and having large-scale economic impacts,” Wu said at the time.
Trump border czar Tom Homan responded to Wu, questioning her intelligence and stating that she should either help or “get the hell out of the way,”
“She’s not very smart, I’ll give her that,” Homan said. “President Trump’s going to prioritize public safety threats. What mayor or governor doesn’t want public safety threats out of their communities? That’s your number one responsibility, to protect your communities, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.”
Thousands of migrants have been deported so far under the Trump administration including pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists. Extremely violent offenders have been deported from the Boston area including eight <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/extremely-violent-offenders-undocumented-migrants-with-criminal-records-nabbed-boston-ice-raid/KXKS25PYLBB2VMQ7BRTZX2SPRA/">last week,</a> who were gang members or criminals charged with crimes ranging from sexual assault to rape and murder.

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