Would that Attorney General Andrea Campbell be as concerned and protective of Massachusetts citizens as she is of the thousands of “residents” who have invaded the state?
“Residents” is the code word that woke politicians like Campbell and Gov. Maura Healey use when they are talking about immigrants, illegal or otherwise, who have swarmed into Massachusetts seeking its generous welfare benefits.
The first-term attorney general, who succeeded Gov. Maura Healey at the office — and who once campaigned to defund the Boston police — is vowing to “Trump proof” her office to protect people from Trump and “anyone who would harm the interests of my residents.”
This means “standing up” to Trump and his plans to deport criminal illegal immigrants as well as other immigrants who crossed into the country illegally.
As she staffs up her office to take on President-elect Donald Trump, the next thing you know she will be hiring special prosecutor Jack Smith, the strike-out king, who unsuccessfully went after Trump for attempting to overthrow the result of the 2020 election. He failed.
Smith resigned last week before Trump could fire him.
Sounding like New York Attorney General Letitia James, who also famously went after Trump, Campbell, in an interview with the Boston Globe, said there is “real fear and anxiety in Massachusetts” over what Trump plans to do.
Campaigning in 2018 James said, “We need an attorney general who will stand up to Donald Trump.” So, she sued him.
Last week Campbell said she also was going to “stand up” against Donald Trump. So, she will sue him too, even though she does not know what she is going to sue him over, although she suspects his policies will be “cruel and inhumane.”
“We have the tools to take on any type of threat, and we’re not afraid to use those tools,” she said.
Those tools are lawsuits against the president which Healey as attorney general made a habit of filing against Trump in his first term. Thirteen of the hundred or so suits she filed challenged Trump on his immigration and secure border policies, including building the wall.
Some would argue, though, that the real “fear and anxiety” among people that Campbell talks about stems not from Trump but from the criminal illegal immigrants on welfare committing crimes like child rape or walking around with assault rifles or smuggling and selling fentanyl.
One would think that Campbell, the state’s chief “law enforcement officer,” would at least show as much interest in the criminal activity of illegal immigrants, as she does in protecting them, let alone let alone investigate cases of corruption by elected officials.
Campbell and her Criminal Division is nowhere to be found when it comes to investigating charging and prosecuting cases of serious crime committed by criminal illegal immigrants.
For instance, it was the Revere Police with the assistance of ICE who arrested Dominican illegal immigrant Leonardo Andujar Sanchez, 28, with his AR-15 assault rifle and $1 million in fentanyl at the Quality Inn last week.
That arrest comes on the heels of the arraignment of Guatemalan illegal immigrant Maynor Francisco-Hernandez-Rodas, 38, on child rape charges. He was arrested in Lowell by agents of ICE and is being prosecuted by Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden.
On the political corruption front, it was the FBI from former Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy’s office that investigated, arrested and indicted Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson on for an alleged kickback scheme in which she used her public office for the personal gains of thousands of dollars.
Two weeks ago, the U.S. Attorney, not the attorney general, adopted an investigation of alleged wrongdoing into state Rep. Chris Flanagan of Cape Cod turned over to it by the Barnstable Police Department.
But not to worry. Attorney General Campbell is expanding her office to go after Trump to protect her “residents.” Citizens need to look elsewhere.
Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
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2025-01-18 04:14:08
