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As Democratic leaders successful Massachusetts triple down connected absorption against national involution to clamp down connected crime, a migrant structure whistleblower is sounding the alarm astir an summation successful transgression successful neighborhoods crossed the authorities and particularly successful Boston.
Jon Fetherston, who ran 1 of the state-funded migrant shelters successful Marlborough, Massachusetts, and blew the whistle astir rampant transgression and enactment abuse taking spot successful the edifice structure system. He present says that since Democratic Gov. Maura Healey closed down the structure system, determination has been an uptick successful home violence, enactment trafficking, shoplifting and adjacent car accidents.
"The Healey hotels were good known for having enactment trafficking, home violence. We've reported cases of rape, unfortunately, successful there," Fetherston said. "Now, you've opened it up to each of the cities and towns successful Massachusetts."
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This comes arsenic Healey has pushed backmost against the Trump administration’s national crime crackdown successful Washington, D.C., and preemptively criticized immoderate involution successful Boston arsenic "political theater."
"More governmental powerfulness grabs from Donald Trump," Healey wrote successful a connection posted to X, adding, "We don’t request oregon privation his interference here."
In response, Fetherston said, "How the politician conscionable wants the nationalist to judge that each of these things volition not hap is highly naive and highly dangerous."
"Governor Healey wants you to deliberation she conscionable snaps her fingers and closes each of the hotels and past disperses radical into the communities that the 1000 incidents that were reported backmost successful 2024, and the authorities has refused to merchandise the information for 2025, she conscionable thinks that those superior instances aren't going to hap successful the communities that present she's forced radical into."
Referencing the high-profile lawsuit of amerciable migrant Harjinder Singh allegedly causing an car mishap successful Florida that killed three, Fetherston said, "you've seen the nationalist stories of unlicensed oregon illegals with driver's licenses and CDLs. I haven't seen that, but I've seen a tremendous uptick successful car accidents."
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Fetherston said that Boston has been peculiarly impacted by the emergence successful crime.
"Your eyes archer you each you request to know. Crime is connected an uptick successful Boston. Things are not bully successful Boston," helium said. "Boston was erstwhile a large city. It is nary longer a large city. It is simply a metropolis that with unfastened cause use, the transgression rates person spiked."
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, besides a Democrat, has rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to ace down connected amerciable migrant transgression oregon to nonstop the National Guard to the city.
Wu has said, "In Boston, we comply and travel each of the laws, city, authorities and federal. And we volition not backmost down from communities that person made america the safest large metropolis successful the country."
Wu has besides commented, "This is simply a beautiful, diverse, unthinkable city, and I person said it present precise directly, this medication needs to halt attacking cities to fell their ain failures."
In response, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons has vowed to "flood" Boston with national agents.
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To Fetherston, an accrued ICE beingness would beryllium welcome, portion Wu’s absorption is indefensible.
"How immoderate elected authoritative could not enactment nationalist information arsenic the biggest precedence of immoderate occupation that they do, it's disgusting to maine and it's precise concerning," helium said, adding, "Mayor Wu wants to archer you that Boston is 1 of the safest cities. No, your eyes archer you that Boston has successful large decline."
Regarding threats by the Trump medication and Homeland Security to intervene successful Boston and Massachusetts, Fetherston said helium believes that "anybody who lives successful a crime-ridden area, which determination are a batch successful Massachusetts, volition admit the effect of it."
"I've talked to concern owners, I've speech to section instrumentality enforcement, anybody who wants to person a sensible speech astir fixing transgression successful their community, they enactment what the president's doing and wants to do," helium explained. "Yeah, immoderate radical astir apt don't similar the optics due to the fact that possibly they don't recognize it. And the media is doing, successful my opinion, doing a atrocious occupation of describing it. Tanks are not rolling down people's streets. The National Guard's not walking with guns into your backyard and worldly similar that. We're conscionable determination to support and serve, and that's what your section constabulary does."
"If you don't privation that arsenic an elected official, I don't privation you arsenic my elected official," helium said.
Fox News Digital reached retired to the offices of Healey and Wu but did not instantly person a response.
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White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson commented connected Healey and Wu's absorption by saying, "If these Democrats focused connected fixing transgression successful their ain cities alternatively of doing publicity stunts to knock the President, their communities would beryllium overmuch safer."
"Cracking down connected transgression should not beryllium a partisan issue, but Democrats suffering from TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome] are trying to marque it one," she went on, adding, "They should perceive to chap Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser who precocious celebrated the Trump Administration’s occurrence successful driving down convulsive transgression successful Washington DC."
Bowser's bureau declined to remark further, referring Fox News Digital to the mayor's anterior statements.
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