Maura Healey

Well, David, I'm governor and my job is to protect the residents of my state and to protect public safety.

Before I was governor, I was a prosecutor.

For eight years, I was attorney general.

I went after and prosecuted bad guys who, you know, whether they were trafficking drugs or human beings or guns, I worked a lot with federal law enforcement agencies.

What I can tell you is that ICE is not acting like a law enforcement agency and ICE is making our communities less safe around the country and certainly here in Massachusetts.

And, you know, this has been well covered.

I mean, the vast majority of people they're picking up are people who are working, who are paying taxes, who are raising families and growing businesses and the like.

They say they were about the worst of the worst.

That's not what this has been about at all.

So what I did in Massachusetts, and again, this is because I need to protect the public safety of my residents, is I took action and banned ICE from schools, daycare centers, hospitals, churches, courthouses.

because we had kids who were afraid to go to school, people afraid to go to the doctors.

Because of ICE, we had criminal cases being dismissed because victims and witnesses were afraid to show up in courthouses.

So that's the first thing I did.

The second thing I did is to say no other governor can send their National Guard into Massachusetts without my request or authorization.

And then third, I made sure that no state resources

property or any assets are able to be used by ICE in whatever ICE is doing.

Again, we just shouldn't be at this point.

But what Kristi Noem and DHS have done is completely corrupt ICE.

And now we've got an agency with a lot of folks.

I think the majority of folks working at ICE now have just recently come on board.