SBA office to move out of Boston, other ‘sanctuary cities’
Updated: Mar. 07, 2025, 7:38 a.m.|Published: Mar. 07, 2025, 7:37 a.m.
By Grant Walker | The Boston Business Journal
(*This story first appeared in The Boston Business Journal)
A day after Boston Mayor Michelle Wu defended the city’s treatment of immigrants in testimony before Congress, the U.S. Small Business Administration said Thursday it will move its regional office out of Boston as part of a broader plan to relocate those offices out of sanctuary cities.
The SBA’s Boston office is located in the federally owned Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Federal Building next to North Station. The 11-story building was on the federal government’s list of buildings it would seek to sell — a list that has since disappeared, leaving their future uncertain.
Wu defended the city’s welcoming policies to immigrants in a Congressional hearing Wednesday. The Trump administration has proclaimed the need to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally, and criticized Boston’s law enforcement leaders for not helping the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in those efforts.
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