A subordinate of the Boston City Council called retired Border Czar Tom Homan successful a station connected societal media, calling his promises to enforce President Donald Trump's borderline argumentation "laughable."
Councilwoman Sharon Durkan posted her effect connected X aft Homan said helium would "bring hell" to Beantown aft Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox precocious doubled down connected the city’s sanctuary policies.
"You said you doubled down connected not helping the instrumentality enforcement officers of ICE. I'm coming to Boston, and I'm bringing hellhole with me," Homan said astatine the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) connected Saturday. "I looked astatine the numbers this morning... I stopped counting astatine nine. Nine kid rapists that were successful jailhouse successful Massachusetts, but alternatively than honoring an ICE detainer, you released them backmost into the street."
"You're not a constabulary commissioner," Homan continued. "Take that badge disconnected your chest. Put it successful the table drawer. Because you became a politician. You forgot what it’s similar to beryllium a cop."
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Durkan responded by mocking Homan for concisely serving arsenic a constabulary serviceman successful the colony of West Carthage, New York, successful the 1980s. He became a Border Patrol cause soon after, and has since worked for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) successful the Obama administration, arsenic good arsenic the archetypal Trump administration.
"Laughable that idiosyncratic who spent their vocation policing a municipality smaller than a Fenway Park assemblage thinks they tin lecture Boston connected nationalist safety," Durkan's station read.
"Commissioner Michael Cox serves with favoritism and earns spot with integrity," the metropolis authoritative continued. "Tom Homan should know, we don’t scare easy."
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In a caller interview, Cox said that Boston "doesn't enforce detainers" that are filed by ICE, per Massachusetts law.
"We conscionable don’t bash that," Cox said connected a conception of WCVB’s "On the Record" show. "We don’t enforce civilian detainers regarding national migration law. It's defined present successful the state, and that’s conscionable however it works."
The Boston bureau of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) has overseen the apprehension of respective transgression migrants successful caller weeks, including MS-13 pack members.
Earlier this month, ERO Boston officers apprehended an amerciable alien from Guatemala who was charged with multiple counts of kid rape.
Fox News Digital reached retired to Durkan for comment, but did not instantly perceive back.
Fox News Digital's Peter Pinedo and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.