Editorial: Colorado, a wake-up call

Boston Herald, Boston Herald on Jun 4, 2025

Published in Op Eds

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The Egyptian national accused of using a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to terrorize a group of Israeli hostage supporters in Colorado was in the U.S. illegally.

It’s exactly what the Trump administration is fighting against: An antisemite in our land illegally.

Yet, our attorney general in Massachusetts, Andrea Campbell, puts out a how-to avoid ICE officers tipsheet. By doing that, she’s perpetuating the sins of her own party.

The Biden administration ignored the immigration crisis, and now that fatal error is hurting law-abiding citizens who today are praying for their loved ones in Boulder, Colo., where Sunday’s firebombing left eight injured. We know this pain all too well in Boston, where hijackers hell bent on the destruction of our democracy slammed jets into the World Trade towers on 9/11, unleashing the War on Terror.

It’s unpopular for most Democrats to admit illegal immigration is … illegal.

We’re a nation of immigrants who have escaped tyranny and poverty for a chance at a better life. But there’s a legal path to citizenship that takes some effort and, in the best of times, works.

Sure, many have slipped between the cracks, leaving future generations to figure it all out. But rampant illegal immigration hit a tipping point, ushering in an unpopular crackdown by ICE agents. The billions spent on illegal immigration are unsustainable and unfair to those who followed the law, giving immigration officials no choice but to act.

It’s one of the main reasons President Donald Trump won both the general and the Electoral College elections.

AG Campbell is being altruistic on our dime. Instead of speeding up paths to citizenship, she’s offering duck-and-cover tactics. It’s the Democratic playbook that is doomed.

ICE announced Monday that agents busted nearly 1,500 illegal immigrants in May in Massachusetts, and they have more work to do.

“Make no mistake, ICE is going to keep doing this,” acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told reporters at the federal courthouse in Boston. “This operation proved that we need to do more. While this operation was going on and the brave men and women from all these agencies were out conducting operations, more criminal aliens were being released into the community.”

Colorado must be a wake-up call. Toxic hate was rained down on Americans exercising their First Amendment right to speak out against terror. A peaceful protest turned into heartache that traces its roots to enabling a presidency run by a deep state clinging to power instead of exercising some.

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