Homeland Security says Boston's mayor comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is 'sickening'

The Department of Homeland Security says Boston’s Democrat politician comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is "sickening." 

The absorption Thursday came successful response to a video posted by an relationship affiliated with the White House, during which Michelle Wu said, "I don't cognize of immoderate constabulary section that routinely wears masks.  

"We cognize that determination are different groups that routinely deterioration masks. NSC-131 routinely wears masks," Wu added, successful notation to a New England-based neo-Nazi group. 

"Mayor Wu comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is SICKENING," Homeland Security wrote connected X. "When our heroic instrumentality enforcement officers behaviour operations, they intelligibly place themselves arsenic instrumentality enforcement portion wearing masks to support themselves from being targeted by known and suspected pack members, murders, and rapists." 

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is facing disapproval for caller comments she made astir ICE agents. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald/Getty Imags)

"Attacks and demonization of our brave instrumentality enforcement is WRONG. ICE officers are present facing a 413% summation successful assaults," Homeland Security added. 

The Anti-Defamation League said members of NSC-131 "consider themselves soldiers astatine warfare with a hostile, Jewish-controlled strategy that is deliberately plotting the extinction of the White race." 

Wu besides precocious said successful an interrogation with WBUR that "People are terrified for their lives and for their neighbors" and "folks [are] getting snatched disconnected the thoroughfare by concealed constabulary who are wearing masks, who tin connection nary justification for wherefore definite radical are being taken and past detained."

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ICE Boston agents are seen successful this representation making arrests. (X/ @BillMelugin_)

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, successful a connection to Wu connected Wednesday, said "these are existent radical with existent families you're hurting with your ridiculous rhetoric and inflammatory comments and it’s clip to retrieve that." 

Leah Foley, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, besides released a video message saying "federal agents successful marked jackets and vests are masking their faces due to the fact that radical similar Mayor Wu person created mendacious narratives astir their mission. 

ICE Boston agents are seen making arrests earlier this year. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's caller comments comparing them to neo-Nazis are "sickening," the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday. (X/ @BillMelugin_)

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"Federal agents and their children are being threatened, doxxed and assaulted. That is wherefore they indispensable fell their faces," she added.