Illegal migrants arrested in Boston (Fox News)
Fox News was embedded with ICE Boston on Thursday as part of this operation. While Fox News was embedded with ICE, agents arrested a murderer, two child rapists, including one living next to a playground, one fentanyl trafficker, one adult rapist, and one child sexual assaulter, all within the span of a few hours.
Prior to this, the largest ICE operation was Operation Tidal Wave in Florida, which netted 1,120 arrests. Fox News was told Operation Patriot was significantly more difficult because, unlike Florida, ICE received no local assistance from Massachusetts sanctuary jurisdictions.
Sources said the operation was in direct response to leaders in the city of Boston and Massachusetts refusing to cooperate with ICE.
The sources said "hundreds" of the arrested targets had been released by local sanctuary jurisdictions with ICE detainers ignored. ICE also said it encountered daily interference from anti-ICE activist groups throughout Massachusetts.
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An illegal migrant on El Salvador's most wanted list is arrested. He has an Interpol Red Notice for aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping and robbery. (Fox News)
The press conference was held the same day that an illegal alien in Massachusetts named Lorenzo Lopez Alcario was arraigned on charges of raping a child with force. A copy of the charges obtained by Fox News Digital alleges that the child was tied during the rape.
Commenting on the arraignment and on Operation Patriot, Jon Fetherston, a former Massachusetts migrant shelter director, told Fox News Digital that Democratic Governor Maura Healey’s resistance to federal immigration enforcement operations is "not only unsafe for ICE agents, it’s unsafe for all of us."
Fetherston added that Healey’s policies are "creating a climate of lawlessness, where even convicted criminals are shielded from federal enforcement."
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"That’s not compassion — it’s recklessness," he said.
Healey's office did not immediately respond to a request by Fox News Digital for comment.
Fox News Digital's Christina Shaw contributed to this report
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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