There’s an interview with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (SURPRISE – graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law) making the rounds this morning and it seems…well…typically ill-advised on her part.

Has this woman ever thought a single thing through before she either opened her mouth or acted?

After stepping on herself with her persons-of-color-only Christmas party, you’d think Her Honor would be a little more circumspect – at least at the moment – but I guess it’s not in her nature. And who can blame her? It’s not like she ever pays any consequences other than a few awkward moments for any of her outright racist or undemocratic moves. Take, for instance, that very same discriminatory “Electeds of Color” Christmas invite. Lots of bad press, and Wu ducked some awkward questions.

Frickin’ whiney white people anyway – don’t you just hate them?

But ultimately, no worries.

Boston mayor’s party that excluded White officials didn’t violate law: AG

…The attorney general received four complaints against Wu, the first Asian American mayor of the New England metropolis, for the party, citing public accomodation law violation concerns.

But a spokesperson for the attorney general said her office “has no open investigation into this event.”

I have no doubt that she’ll soon be adding to her “enemies list” at least the names of the four brave souls who filed complaints against the Party of POCS. Remember her toe-dip into Nixonian waters? That was the list of irritating naysayers she claimed that the Boston Police (whom she also despises and has worked mightily to decimate, so this stretches incredulity) asked her to compile so they could protect her.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s national reputation as a progressive leader took a major hit with the revelation that she compiled a list of vocal critics and sent it to her police department.

The Nixonian tactic of keeping an enemies list, which Wu justified as a security measure, might dent her image as a liberal darling in the national media.

…Critics jumped on the revelation of the enemies list, which was first uncovered in an email by her opponents, as evidence that she’s dictatorial and infringing on people’s rights to protest.

The list included anti-vaccine activists who have been protesting outside Wu’s Roslindale home, as well as North End restaurant owners who sued the Wu administration, and City Council candidate Catherine Vitale.

It was compiled as Wu took action against protesters by passing an ordinance prohibiting loud demonstrations outside her home during certain hours.

I don’t see where this dents her “progressive” cred at all. It’s precisely what the fascists do once they get control. Remember how enforced those laws against protesting SCOTUS homes are? Yeah. Good times, good times. Parents at schoolboard meetings made lists in certain quarters, too, didn’t they?

I mean, the local Boston CBS affiliate even went to far as to broadcast (BROADCAST!) a “this isn’t anything like NIXON!!” defense of Wu! How bulwarked can a politician be?

…If there’s been any political persecution going on here, it’s been of the mayor by her tormentors. Some have made the rounds of the right-wing media echo chamber peddling their complaints about pandemic policies; others are now jumping into the city council races. A case could be made that Wu has been too restrained in her responses to them.

But “Nixonian”?

Only in some fantasy parallell universe.

HER TORMENTORS

Of COURSE, she thinks she’s invincible with that Progressive Praetorian Guard.

Oh, Wu’s right on track for Vice-Progmeister of the Year as chief underling to Uber Prog Lord Merrick Garland.

I’m assuming that being omnipotent, bulletproof, and oblivious leads one to ignore everything going on around you. That’s the only reason that a big, blue city mayor could give an interview like this one in the middle of an illegal invasion. Even as larger blue cities with their progressive mayors cry and tantrum on national broadcasts and across social media, Mayor Wu chugs merrily along with nary a thought about moderating her language even a tad.

To be completely honest, I haven’t nailed down WHEN she gave this. All I know is that the video surfaced late yesterday, and it is blowing up.

“Every human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter…People are looking to be in a safe democracy where they can be raising their families…”

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:
"Every human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter."

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— 🇺🇸 Pismo 🇺🇸 (@Pismo_B) January 1, 2024

This is what’s known as waving a red flag at a bull. In this case, that’s the border governors and mayors – particularly Texas Gov Greg Abbott – being overrun by waves of illegals crossing the border whose numbers amount to the population of Boston itself (650K in 2022) in short order, and then repeat. TX particularly has taken the mayors of New York City, Denver, and Chicago up on their Sanctuary City boasts. I’m sure Boston isn’t that much further a hike for a bus-driver, and he’d be delighted to spread the illegal human overflow among additional tender hearted, virtue-signaling mayors.

Now, there are voices in the Boston community who are firmly behind the mayor. Last month, during numerous stories about illegals having nowhere left to shelter but the city’s airport, a Dr. Geralde Gabeau of the Immigrant Family Services Institute was ecstatic about being able to set up cots for arriving foreign nationals.

“…Traveling for months, sometimes for years, and finally they are here. And we are in winter months and turning our back on them. And to me, that is unacceptable!…”

“Massachusetts is full” declared the state’s emergency shelter system, which meant all new arrivals – and Massachusetts residents, as well- would have to go on a waiting list. I don’t think they play favorites there – everyone gets thrown in the homeless pot, citizen or illegals. Neat, huh? Blue cities are equitable that way.

Anyway, MA also has a right-to-shelter law complicating things. But a civil rights organization which filed a lawsuit when the shelters hit capacity said not to think of the illegal influx as a curse. Oh, no, no – be positive. A familiar voice piped up, too, waxing poetically on the wonder of the human tsunami.

WE NEED THEM

…”What we are seeing is the concurrent and overlapping crisis surrounding housing unavailability, housing scarcity, with the migrant crisis,” Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights in Boston, said on Basic Black.

We are experiencing an acute need for housing not just for U.S. citizens and longtime residents in the Boston area but also for new residents who are arriving. But it’s not just a drain, he says — it’s also an opportunity.

…”If you see them first as a people who are seeking a future, who are fleeing violence … if you see them as assets, you will do whatever you can to welcome them and give them the status that they need,” said Dr. Geralde Gabeau, founder and executive director of the Immigrant Families Services Institute. “Those are the people that we need … all sectors are suffering, we don’t have enough nurses, we don’t have enough drivers.”

See, doubters? It’s an “opportunity” to get all these incoming “nurses” and “drivers”.

WHO KNEW? According to Dr. Gabeau, we are saved.

They look like a scattering of women with minor children while the vast bulk is unaccompanied 20 some-odd-year-old males with no appreciable skills to me. Then again, I’m not an immigration expert – I only play one here at HotAir. I’m sure to border towns and the Border Patrol, any appreciable measure of professional skills among the incoming hordes are well nigh wishful thinking.

Illegal advocates are simply mouthing fodder for local media to distract citizens with as their city starts to be consumed before their lying eyes.

At the end of August, the Boston Globe had a plaintive op-ed that asked:

What if busloads of migrants from Texas came to Boston?
Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s buses full of migrants are a political stunt. But they’re also testing cities’ commitments to welcoming immigrants.

When former governor Deval Patrick emphatically said yes to a request by President Barack Obama to temporarily house unaccompanied minors who had crossed the Southern border in the summer of 2014, many staunchly opposed Patrick’s compassionate stance.

“My faith teaches that if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him but rather love him as yourself,” Patrick, visibly fighting tears, said at the time.

But the multiple strong reactions to the plan didn’t all fall along political lines. A Democratic state senator from Chicopee said he opposed the idea because “immigration is a federal issue and must be resolved at that level” and because “this proposal would come at a cost to Chicopee residents and taxpayers.” A member of the Board of Selectmen in Bourne said: “We don’t even know if some of these children have diseases. We don’t know if they are gang members.” Meanwhile, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson said immigrants are “just going to keep on coming” as long as “there are signals being sent out that people can come here illegally and we’re just going to take care of them.”

…Abbott’s grandstanding campaign aside, it’s fair to ask: What would Boston do if buses full of migrants started arriving at South Station?

Would Boston pass the test as a sanctuary for immigrants?

Funny they should ask and quote Sheriff Hodgson, who I think called it just about right.

Fast forward nine years…

…Boston might be about fixin’ to find out, courtesy of Mayor Wu.

Without the benefit of any concept of straTEEgery when it hits.