Another Local Officer Under the Gun for Cooperating with ICE
This time in Boston
By Dan Cadman on November 7, 2019
This is the third occasion in a relatively short period of time in which I've raised the issue of sanctuary jurisdictions going after their own police officers for working with — or even, in one instance responding to a 911 call from — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (see here and here).
The most recent instance came to light in Boston during the latter part of October, when the Boston Globe published a piece on October 25, "Documents show Boston officer worked closely with ICE: Actions could violate city rules on role of police" (behind a paywall).
But before I briefly get into the details, it's worth reviewing some of the premises behind sanctuary thinking. Sanctuary jurisdictions claim that this barring of cooperation or any kind of contact between police and ICE is for the good of the "immigrant community" because it instills the trust needed for police to be effective at their work and to encourage this amorphously described community to cooperate with them. The fallacies in such thinking are multiple:
https://cis.org/Cadman/Another-Local-Officer-Under-Gun-Cooperating-ICE
