Put White Stadium out of your mind.
Yes, it is a significant issue, and Josh Kraft, the mayoral candidate for Boston, is correct to raise concerns about the skyrocketing expenses of rehabilitation.
However, like other red-blooded progressive Democrats, Kraft would be imprisoned if he truly wanted to defeat Mayor Michelle Wu.
Whether staged or not, it has become politically popular to do so.
Kraft must be prepared to choose a location where he can try to wrestle an undocumented immigrant from ICE officers without getting wounded, after which he will be apprehended and placed in handcuffs.
You can utilize it as a fundraising tactic in addition to receiving a ton of free exposure, as demonstrated by the previously unheard-of Democrat U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California, who opposed President Donald Trump and his deportation policies.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was the only woman to be the man in Padilla’s case. A week earlier in Los Angeles, Noem was holding a press conference when the stout Padilla unexpectedly rushed forward her and tried to ask her a question regarding ICE activities.
Before Padilla could prove his identity, federal officials swiftly surrounded him and hurried him out of the room. He was taken into custody, handcuffed, and floored before being released.
It’s still unclear why the six-foot, three-inch-tall Padilla let the smaller ICE agents push him around without resisting, unless you assume that it was all part of a scheme to obtain immense notoriety and a self-serving video, which is what actually occurred.
He even had the opportunity to speak about it before the Senate with tears in his eyes.
All of a sudden, the nobody became someone.
Comptroller Brad Lander, one of the eleven Democrats vying for mayor of New York City, was aware of this.
Lander, who had previously been lost in the crowd, made a huge splash last week with early voting already in progress when he pulled a Padilla and was arrested by ICE authorities in Manhattan for trying to stop them from capturing an illegal immigrant.
Videos of Lander arguing with the federal officers showed him yelling about warrants and due process as the authorities escorted him out of the building in handcuffs.
Lander was freed without being charged, much like Padilla. But he was flooded with free publicity from New York media outlets that he could never have purchased, propelling him to the top of the pack. Tomorrow is the primary.
Even the weak front-runner, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, denounced the federal agents.
Cuomo, who has some knowledge of thuggery, claimed that Lander’s detention is the most recent instance of Trump’s ICE acting in an uncontrollable manner. One can only image how terrified families across must be when they encounter ICE.
Lander’s performance was comparable to that of Ras Baraka, the Democrat mayor of Newark, New Jersey, one month prior. After a run-in with federal officials, Baraka, who was running for governor, was taken into custody outside a federal illegal immigrant ICE detention facility. Naturally, the charges were later withdrawn.
Acting out at the same melee, fellow Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey was also taken into custody and accused of assaulting and obstructing federal authorities. McIver, in contrast to Baraka, was charged and is expected to go to trial.
For Democrats, obstructing ICE deportation proceedings has nearly become a standard political tactic and PR enhancer.
You arrive at an ICE deportation event without warning, start a commotion, support the illegal immigrants, argue with ICE officers, and then, in front of the crew you brought to record the event, you are arrested and placed in handcuffs.
The video is continuously played by the anti-Trump television media, and you gain notoriety.
Kraft ought to try it out. Unless Michelle Wu comes up with the idea before.
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