(2 Jun 2025)
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Boston – 2 June 2025
1. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts officials gather for a press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia H. Hyde, Field Office Director, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, Boston:
“We were able to arrest almost 1,500 illegal aliens throughout the Commonwealth during the month of May, most of whom have significant criminality in the United States or abroad. 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. Make no mistake, every person we arrested was breaking our immigration laws. But most of these individuals, 790 to be exact, had significant criminality as well.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia H. Hyde, Field Office Director, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, Boston:
“Represented in these numbers are murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, child sex predators, and members of violent transnational criminal gangs.”
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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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.”
7. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts officials leaving the press conference
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.
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