A Boston District Attorney and a Boston judge are getting a well-deserved lesson in constitutional law and the Supremacy Clause, and it’s coming from U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley. It seems an Immigrations & Customs Enforcement officer, Brian Sullivan, arrested an illegal alien in a Boston courtroom, pursuant to a valid federal warrant. Now the DA is threatening Sullivan for taking the illegal alien out of the courtroom, and the judge in the case has already found Officer Sullivan in contempt for arresting the illegal alien during the trial – and both of them may well now be in the second half of the famous “Fool Around, Find Out” cycle.
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She is now threatening felony charges against the Boston DA, who said he is considering charging the ICE agent who arrested the alien after he was held in contempt of court by a Boston judge for making the arrest.
Leah Foley, US Attorney in Massachusetts, writes the following in a letter to Suffolk County (Boston) DA Kevin Hayden:
“The fact that you disfavor ICE officers doing their jobs is not a basis for criminal charges. In fact, there is no legal basis for such charges. You may very well disagree with the enforcement of our federal immigration laws, but it is inappropriate to suggest to the public that federal officers can be criminally prosecuted by your office for performing their official duties. Any attempt or threat to interfere with the lawful actions of federal government agents will not be tolerated. It is a felony offense to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with an immigration officer’s efforts to duly execute the immigration laws of the United States.”