Two Democratic mayors have again vowed to break the federal law that forbids harboring illegal aliens, possibly opening up themselves and any officials who help them to felony charges.
Far-left Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis and equally far-left Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston promised illegals safe harbor in their cities. The open borders Democrats reiterated their promise to the invaders despite repeated warnings from border czar Tom Homan. Those who obstruct Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be prosecuted.
When Frey repeated his imprudent promise today, far-left radical Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, who represents the Somali-dominated city in Congress, stood by his side. Omar and immigrant Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii have introduced the “Neighbors Not Enemies Act.” It would repeal the Alien Enemies Act that permits a president wide authority to deport those he considers enemies of the nation. President Donald Trump invoked the act last week.
Minneapolis’ Jacob Frey
To a cheering crowd of open-borders cultists, Frey explained his city’s policy vis-à-vis illegals.
“I want all of you just to know exactly where we are as far as our neighbors go. Minneapolis will continue to be a safe haven for undocumented immigrants,” Frey said, including “transgenders” in his talk:
Regardless of who you are or where you come from, Minneapolis is a place where you should be proud to call home.
Frey’s promise to protect illegals, including illegal-alien criminals, reprises what he said in January.
“We love you,” Frey told the illegals. “We care about you. In the city of Minneapolis, we will stand up for you and we will do anything in our power to help because you’re not an alien; in our city you’re a neighbor.”
He also detailed his planned insurrection against ICE:
Now, in Minneapolis we have what is called a separation ordinance. And that separation ordinance states clearly that our city officials, our police officers and beyond will not be gathering information showing who is and is not documented.
We do not ask the question with regards to immigration status and, because we haven’t asked the question, we don’t have any data to show documentation status in our city. Our police officers will not be cooperating with federal law enforcement around federal immigration law. We enforce state and local laws here in Minneapolis, and we will do so to the best of our ability. But as for cooperation with ICE, the answer is no.
Boston’s Michelle Wu
Some 1,110 miles away in Boston, during her State of the City address yesterday, Mayor Wu also offered refuge to illegals.
“Two weeks ago, I went down to D.C. because Congress had some questions about how we do things here in Boston,” she said of the hearing at which she justified the city’s unlawful sanctuary policy:
It might have been my voice speaking into the microphone that day, but it was 700,000 voices that gave Congress their answer: This is our city.
No one tells Boston how to take care of our own. Not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies. In D.C., during the breaks to nurse the baby, I caught up on the scene unfolding back home: Hands joined in prayer across an interfaith circle at St. Paul’s; bright letters illuminated on the Old State House bricks; homemade signs held high among the crowds on City Hall Plaza: “We stand with immigrants,” “You belong here,” “Somos una ciudad de inmigrantes,” “Boston doesn’t back down.”
Like Frey, Wu repeated what she said in November after Trump shellacked Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.
“The idea that certain local law enforcement agencies will be required, or will be expected, to participate in mass deportations of residents who have not been part of serious criminal activity just to fulfill this campaign promise, this is not something that is possible under the laws in Boston,” she told far-left Boston Public Radio.
She also vowed to “identify spaces” that ICE will target and “think about protections there.”
Wu’s unwise vow to resist federal law invited a rebuke from Homan.
“President Trump is going to prioritize public safety threats,” Homan told Newsmax. “What mayor or governor doesn’t want public safety threats out of their communities?”
He continued:
So either she helps us or she gets the hell out of the way, because we’re going to do it. There’s a clear line here, and they can’t cross that clear line. I will suggest she read Title 8, United States Code 1324 III, that says you can’t harbor or conceal an illegal alien from federal law enforcement officers. …
They can not cooperate, but there are certain laws in place that they can’t cross, and I hope she doesn’t cross it.
The statute Homan cited, Bringing In and Harboring Certain Aliens, applies to “any person” — including mayors and elected officials acting under the color of unlawful state or municipal sanctuary laws — who “knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation.”
The punishment includes 10 years in prison and fines.
Boston and Minneapolis are just two cities involved in a nationwide criminal conspiracy to violate the law.
Omar and Hirono
Announcing her bid to repeal the Alien Enemies Act, immigrant Omar, with immigrant Hirono at her side, said the founders of the Republic who passed that law were “un-American.”
“It is hard to imagine anything more un-American than that,” the beturbaned refugee said, calling Trump’s effort to control the borders and deport illegals a “threat to immigrants.” For “America is too great to fall prey to Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.”
Restoring “basic humanity” to immigration policy means repealing the Alien Enemies Act, which is, she said, “xenophobic.”
On X, the Somali-born radical — who married her brother to perpetrate immigration and student-loan fraud — claimed that the act is “a draconian law that has no place in America,” and repeated her call to repeal it after Trump invoked it last week.
In fact, the law does have a place in America. President John Adams, a real American, signed it. Other presidents who invoked the act — all native-born Americans — are James Madison, during the War of 1812; Woodrow Wilson, during World War I; and Franklin Roosevelt, during World War II.
When Trump invoked it last week, he cited the invasion by Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang, which he designated a terrorist organization.
Trump’s order invoking the Alien Enemies Act notes that TdA has “thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States.”
The gang “operates in conjunction with Cártel de los Soles, the Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored, narco-terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela, and commits brutal crimes, including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human, drug, and weapons trafficking,” Trump said:
TdA is closely aligned with, and indeed has infiltrated, the Maduro regime, including its military and law enforcement apparatus.
TdA has also established bases of operation across the United States.
