DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt said Monday that Massachusetts officials who released child rapists instead of turning them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be “punished by God.”
The House Oversight Committee announced probes into Boston, Denver, Chicago and New York City in January over “sanctuary city” policies in January, while Attorney General Pam Bondi announced lawsuits against Illinois and New York over sanctuary policies since taking office. After playing remarks from a speech border czar Tom Homan gave at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Earhardt lit into the officials.
“I’m coming to Boston. I’m bringing hell with me,” Homan said during the Saturday speech, later adding, “Nine child rapists in jail in Massachusetts were, rather than honoring ICE detainers, released them back into the street. You’re not a police commissioner, take that badge off your chest, put it in the desk drawer, because you became a politician, you forgot what it was like to be a cop.”
“Message to Susan and to all the people who live in Boston that support these sanctuary cities’ ridiculous rules, these are child rapists. That’s the worst, that is evil,” Earhardt said. “You will be punished by God one day because of that. That is evil, it is so wrong, and to defend them and let them out early so they can be back on the streets and do it again, they ruined lives, those lives will never be the same. Those are heinous, evil crimes. So, I don’t understand how a city council person can defend or this police officer, the commissioner, can defend these criminals.”
ICE has captured other sex offenders released by Massachusetts authorities despite the agency requesting they be detained for deportation in the past. In June 2024, ICE agents arrested a 24-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala who had been released on bail after being charged with raping a child in Bristol County.
ICE also took an illegal immigrant from the Cape Verde Islands repeatedly convicted on public lewdness charges into custody in April 2024.
Long a signature issue of President Donald Trump, illegal immigration made a resurgence as a top issue in the 2024 campaign amid a series of high-profile crimes involving illegal aliens and border crisis under the Biden administration.
Authorities in Oklahoma arrested 23-year-old Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, for the August 2023 murder of 37-year-old Rachel Morin in Maryland June 14.
Authorities in Houston arrested two men June 20 and charged them with capital murder in the rape and murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray. In February, Jose Antonio Ibarra, an immigrant from Venezuela who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, was arrested by University of Georgia police and charged with murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley.
Originally published by Daily Caller News Foundation.