The ice chief comes from “flooding” Boston after the mayor Wu has doubled on the sanctuary policies

The acting director of ice, Todd Lyon, has sworn to “flood” Boston with agents after the Democrat mayor Michelle Wu has doubled her commitment to maintain the policies of the city’s sanctuary and to resist the repression of the Trump administration against illegal immigration.

Speaking on the local radio show “The Howie Carr Show,” Lyon answered WU saying, “Now you will see more glacial agents coming to Boston to make sure that we are taking off these public security threats that she wants to let go of the communities.”

He underlined “the Patriot operation” of the Trump administration, which sent federal agents to the Boston region in March and gave more than a thousand arrests.

“We will continue to do so in Boston,” said Lyons. “We will continue to do our mission. We will continue to ensure the safety of Boston because it does not do with these policies of the city of the sanctuary.”

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The mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, a democrat, has already been criticized for comments she made on ice agents. (Images Matt Stone / Boston Herald / Getty)

Pressed if the ice will increase agents in the Boston region, similar to the way the agents are in Washington, DC, Lyons replied: “At a hundred percent, you will see a greater presence on the ice.”

“We will certainly, as you have heard, flood the area, in particular in the jurisdictions of the sanctuary,” he added. “And, obviously, Boston and the Massachusetts decided that they wanted to remain sanctuaries, and Sanctuary does not mean safer streets. This means more criminal foreigners in the neighborhoods.”

Lyons stressed that, during Operation Patriot, Ice continued “targeted application operations” of criminal foreigners published by the City of Boston and Massachusetts.

Operation Patriot led to the arrest of nearly 1,500 illegal immigrants, including murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and children’s sex predators.

Sources at ICE told Fox News that 790 people arrested had criminal convictions or accusations, and 277 had final withdrawal or expulsion orders. The sources said that all targeted criminals wandered freely in the streets of Massachusetts cities before being apprehended.

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Ceal illegal immigrants are arrested in Boston during an immigration application operation. (Fox News)

The operation took place throughout May and involved ice teams from other northeast states, as well as FBI, DEA and ATF authorities.

Speaking on Wednesday, Lyons said: “There are so many of these criminal foreigners who continue to be released to go out and commit more crimes than local police must face it, and we can do it, you know, an illegal criminal foreigner violates instantly outside the neighborhood.”

This follows the American prosecutor general, Pam Bondi, fixing a deadline on Tuesday for the jurisdictions of the sanctuary to lower their policies which block cooperation with the federal authorities.

Speaking on Fox Business, Bondi said that she had sent letters to 32 mayors and seven governors “telling them that you would better comply or that you are next.”

Bondi underlined a letter which she sent to the governor of California Gavin Newsom in which she warned that “individuals operating under the color of the law, using their official position to hinder federal efforts to apply immigration and facilitate or induce illegal immigration can be subject to criminal accusations”.

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The American prosecutor General Pam Bondi talks to a press conference at the DEA headquarters on July 15, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Images Alex Wong / Getty)

The letter, shared on social networks, said that cooperation between application agencies for federal, state and local law, including the application of immigration, “is vital to enforce federal law and protect national security”.

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Wu publicly rejected Bondi requests at a press conference, qualifying the ultimatum a political blow.

“Stop attacking our cities to hide the failures of your administration. Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law,” Wu said on Tuesday. “It is our city. It is our country, and I am so proud and grateful to show the world which is our community here in Boston and what we are made of.”

In response to Lyons comments, Wu’s office shared a declaration by the mayor who answered the question of another journalist.

Wu reiterated: “In Boston, we respect ourselves and follow all the laws, city, state and federal. And we will not back down communities that have made us the most surest city in the country.

“It is a magnificent city, diverse and incredible, and I now said it very directly, this administration must stop attacking cities to hide their own failures.”

Charles Creitz of Fox News Digital and Madison Colombo contributed to this report.