(2 Jun 2025)
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Boston – 2 June 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia H. Hyde, Field Office Director, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, Boston:
“Throughout this enhanced immigration enforcement operation, ICE and our federal partners targeted the most dangerous alien offenders in some of the most crime-infested neighborhoods of Massachusetts. Our efforts resulted in the arrests of 1,461 criminal alien offenders. 277 of those offenders have been ordered removed from the United States by a Justice Department immigration judge.”
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Lyons, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement:
“If sanctuary cities would change their policies and turn these violent criminal aliens over to us into our custody, instead of releasing them into the public, we would not have to go out to the communities and do this. Boston’s my hometown and it really shocks me that officials all over Massachusetts would rather release sex offenders, fentanyl dealers, drug dealers, human traffickers, and child rapists back into the neighborhoods.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Lyons, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement:
“Two weeks ago, in Los Angeles where we ran an operation where ICE officers were doxxed. So, let’s just say that again. People are out there taking photos of the names, their faces, and posting them online with death threats to their family and themselves. So, I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line and their family on the line because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael J. Krol, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations in New England:
“It should be no secret by now that you will continue to see all of our special agents and officers in your communities conducting daily enforcement actions 24-7.”
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STORYLINE:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons on Monday defended the use of masks by his agents and expressed frustration at sanctuary jurisdictions that he said are hindering the detainment of immigrants who are in the country illegally.
During a press conference at the federal courthouse in Boston announcing a May operation in Massachusetts where nearly 1,500 immigrants were taken into custody, Lyons said his agents wear masks because they and their families have been doxxed and “targeted" with death threats.
“So, I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, their family on the line because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is,” he said.
Immigration enforcement’s May operation in Massachusetts detained 1,461 immigrants living in Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, Lawrence, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard and several other communities. ICE said 790 of those immigrants had criminal histories, including the crime of reentering the U.S. after deportation, and that 277 of those individuals have been ordered to be removed from the country by a federal immigration judge.
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