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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu held a raucous press conference in Beantown on Tuesday, with bold Attorney General Pam Bondi following her letter to the Blue City leaders Sheltered city policy.
Wu, Democrats accused the Trump administration of being a party that “non-compliance with the law”.
“These threats are serious and consequences at a time when the federal government has already caused so much fear and harm in our communities,” she said, after the Trump administration warned that cities could prosecute or cut federal funding if they refuse to cooperate. Immigration law enforcement.
Wu noted that Bondy asked all recipients to respond Tuesday and provide a formal response verbally:
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, left; Pam Bondi, yes (Getty)
“Stop attacking our cities to cover up the failure of the administration. Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law…you are legally wrong and security-wrong.”
Wu continued that political rights are “wrong in cities.”
“A city that is completely strange to the residents living in our city is completely strange. We are picking on your failures to deliver on your promise.”
“Good news about our economy is as hard to find as the Epstein list,” she said to the crowd, which included a mariachi band that performed in Spanish before the speech, local missionary and Senator Edward Markey of D-Mass.
Wu then quotes Boston’s role in the revolution, addressing Bundy again and knocking down her hometown of Florida as a Constitutional Party.
“We gather here today to show you who we are in Boston. More than 100 years before your hometown was founded, Bostonians laid the foundation for our democracy and the rule of law. 100 years before that, Bostonians built the first public and public parks in the country.”
“It has always been a revolutionary city, innovating, fighting for the public good, never succumbing to tyranny. Join me today, our civil servants and veterans, public safety and faith leaders, civil rights advocates, and union members, teachers and business owners, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs and artists, young people and seniors.”
“This is our city. It is our country and I am very proud and grateful to show the world our community is in Boston and everything we do.”
Wu is not the only leader to respond to Bondixin.
Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson received the same suicide note from the Justice Department and promised a full response late Tuesday, but hinted at his position earlier this week:
“The state of Washington has no intention to change our values in the face of the threat from the Trump administration,” Ferguson said.
“It is wrong for the federal government to relentlessly target law-abiding immigration.”
Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago – as well as Philadelphia, New York and other sanctuary cities, received the same documents from Bondy.
“Any claim or recommendation that violates Connecticut’s state of violations or fails to comply with federal law is wrong,” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong told CT Insider in another preliminary response.
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“Connecticut is ready to seek all legal rights and remedies to defend our sovereignty and the people and families of Connecticut from the excessive federal violations” Tang said.
In Philadelphia, the city’s lawyers Claims to claim to WCAU The birthplace of the United States is not a “sanctuary”, but a “human city”.
“We know that the Department of Homeland Security has released a list of jurisdictions across the country, including other cities and counties in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania,” said Renee Garcia, a Philadelphia city attorney.
“Philadelphia has not received any official notice from the DHS. We will carefully review any communications.”

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