The dangerous standoff in Massachusetts with criminal migrants living in state-subsidized shelters side by side with families and children has come to a crossroads where politics has to give way to public safety.

It’s time for Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu to do an about-face and declare their cooperation with federal immigration authorities to rid shelters of drug dealers, sex abusers and criminals carrying weapons.

Forget your natural inclination to oppose anything Donald Trump does, take the handcuffs off the state and local police and let them do their jobs.

It’s time for legislative leaders to shut off the spigot of state assistance until we know that police are cooperating with ICE to rid the shelter system of dangerous criminals. They can’t hide in the House and Senate chambers anymore.

State lawmakers can get their big pay raise and not deal with this?

The state can no longer afford to protect illegal migrants just because of the Democrats’ political position. Our tax dollars are supporting criminals to live free of charge in state shelters.

And the dysfunctional Boston city council needs to pull itself together and try for a moment to realize illegal fentanyl is ending up on the streets of Boston and killing people. The council now led by liberal President Ruthzee Louijeune is complicit by not speaking out.

The reckoning comes after a Dominican illegal immigrant living in a Revere motel state shelter was arrested and charged with 11 counts including possession of an AR-15 and nearly five kilograms of fentanyl.

The defendant was ordered to jail until April and of course has a private attorney despite getting state handouts for shelter and food and other assistance. How does that happen exactly?

The Democratic governor needs to explain to the public how and why it’s putting dangerous migrants who deal deadly drugs and carry powerful weapons into the shelter system. Healey owes all of us a full detailing of just how much assistance the illegal immigrant defendant – or as some liberal outlets were calling “a Revere man” – was getting.

Clearly there’s a public safety issue here, all in the midst of innocent children and families who deserve protection.

It’s better to cooperate now than wait until tragedy strikes or wait until the Trump administration begins to identify and deport dangerous illegal immigrants.

It’s one thing to sit back and defend potential sex offenders and other felons, but it’s another thing to defend clearly dangerous residents of these state shelters.

If there should be a tragedy, Healey and Wu and other Democrats who reflexively oppose ICE will be wearing it and suffering the political and moral consequences.

Mayor Michelle Wu (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

Revere Police photo of the drugs and weapon seized as part of the arrest at the Quality Inn. (Revere Police & Suffolk Sheriffs)

The dangerous standoff in Massachusetts with criminal migrants living in state-subsidized shelters side by side with families and children has come to a crossroads where politics has to give way to public safety.

It’s time for Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu to do an about-face and declare their cooperation with federal immigration authorities to rid shelters of drug dealers, sex abusers and criminals carrying weapons.

Forget your natural inclination to oppose anything Donald Trump does, take the handcuffs off the state and local police and let them do their jobs.

It’s time for legislative leaders to shut off the spigot of state assistance until we know that police are cooperating with ICE to rid the shelter system of dangerous criminals. They can’t hide in the House and Senate chambers anymore.

State lawmakers can get their big pay raise and not deal with this?

The state can no longer afford to protect illegal migrants just because of the Democrats’ political position. Our tax dollars are supporting criminals to live free of charge in state shelters.

And the dysfunctional Boston city council needs to pull itself together and try for a moment to realize illegal fentanyl is ending up on the streets of Boston and killing people. The council now led by liberal President Ruthzee Louijeune is complicit by not speaking out.

The reckoning comes after a Dominican illegal immigrant living in a Revere motel state shelter was arrested and charged with 11 counts including possession of an AR-15 and nearly five kilograms of fentanyl.

The defendant was ordered to jail until April and of course has a private attorney despite getting state handouts for shelter and food and other assistance. How does that happen exactly?

The Democratic governor needs to explain to the public how and why it’s putting dangerous migrants who deal deadly drugs and carry powerful weapons into the shelter system. Healey owes all of us a full detailing of just how much assistance the illegal immigrant defendant – or as some liberal outlets were calling “a Revere man” – was getting.

Clearly there’s a public safety issue here, all in the midst of innocent children and families who deserve protection.

It’s better to cooperate now than wait until tragedy strikes or wait until the Trump administration begins to identify and deport dangerous illegal immigrants.

It’s one thing to sit back and defend potential sex offenders and other felons, but it’s another thing to defend clearly dangerous residents of these state shelters.

If there should be a tragedy, Healey and Wu and other Democrats who reflexively oppose ICE will be wearing it and suffering the political and moral consequences.

Mayor Michelle Wu (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

Revere Police photo of the drugs and weapon seized as part of the arrest at the Quality Inn. (Revere Police & Suffolk Sheriffs)

The dangerous standoff in Massachusetts with criminal migrants living in state-subsidized shelters side by side with families and children has come to a crossroads where politics has to give way to public safety.

It’s time for Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu to do an about-face and declare their cooperation with federal immigration authorities to rid shelters of drug dealers, sex abusers and criminals carrying weapons.

Forget your natural inclination to oppose anything Donald Trump does, take the handcuffs off the state and local police and let them do their jobs.

It’s time for legislative leaders to shut off the spigot of state assistance until we know that police are cooperating with ICE to rid the shelter system of dangerous criminals. They can’t hide in the House and Senate chambers anymore.

State lawmakers can get their big pay raise and not deal with this?

The state can no longer afford to protect illegal migrants just because of the Democrats’ political position. Our tax dollars are supporting criminals to live free of charge in state shelters.

And the dysfunctional Boston city council needs to pull itself together and try for a moment to realize illegal fentanyl is ending up on the streets of Boston and killing people. The council now led by liberal President Ruthzee Louijeune is complicit by not speaking out.

The reckoning comes after a Dominican illegal immigrant living in a Revere motel state shelter was arrested and charged with 11 counts including possession of an AR-15 and nearly five kilograms of fentanyl.

The defendant was ordered to jail until April and of course has a private attorney despite getting state handouts for shelter and food and other assistance. How does that happen exactly?

The Democratic governor needs to explain to the public how and why it’s putting dangerous migrants who deal deadly drugs and carry powerful weapons into the shelter system. Healey owes all of us a full detailing of just how much assistance the illegal immigrant defendant – or as some liberal outlets were calling “a Revere man” – was getting.

Clearly there’s a public safety issue here, all in the midst of innocent children and families who deserve protection.

It’s better to cooperate now than wait until tragedy strikes or wait until the Trump administration begins to identify and deport dangerous illegal immigrants.

It’s one thing to sit back and defend potential sex offenders and other felons, but it’s another thing to defend clearly dangerous residents of these state shelters.

If there should be a tragedy, Healey and Wu and other Democrats who reflexively oppose ICE will be wearing it and suffering the political and moral consequences.

Mayor Michelle Wu (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

Revere Police photo of the drugs and weapon seized as part of the arrest at the Quality Inn. (Revere Police & Suffolk Sheriffs)

The dangerous standoff in Massachusetts with criminal migrants living in state-subsidized shelters side by side with families and children has come to a crossroads where politics has to give way to public safety.

It’s time for Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu to do an about-face and declare their cooperation with federal immigration authorities to rid shelters of drug dealers, sex abusers and criminals carrying weapons.

Forget your natural inclination to oppose anything Donald Trump does, take the handcuffs off the state and local police and let them do their jobs.

It’s time for legislative leaders to shut off the spigot of state assistance until we know that police are cooperating with ICE to rid the shelter system of dangerous criminals. They can’t hide in the House and Senate chambers anymore.

State lawmakers can get their big pay raise and not deal with this?

The state can no longer afford to protect illegal migrants just because of the Democrats’ political position. Our tax dollars are supporting criminals to live free of charge in state shelters.

And the dysfunctional Boston city council needs to pull itself together and try for a moment to realize illegal fentanyl is ending up on the streets of Boston and killing people. The council now led by liberal President Ruthzee Louijeune is complicit by not speaking out.

The reckoning comes after a Dominican illegal immigrant living in a Revere motel state shelter was arrested and charged with 11 counts including possession of an AR-15 and nearly five kilograms of fentanyl.

The defendant was ordered to jail until April and of course has a private attorney despite getting state handouts for shelter and food and other assistance. How does that happen exactly?

The Democratic governor needs to explain to the public how and why it’s putting dangerous migrants who deal deadly drugs and carry powerful weapons into the shelter system. Healey owes all of us a full detailing of just how much assistance the illegal immigrant defendant – or as some liberal outlets were calling “a Revere man” – was getting.

Clearly there’s a public safety issue here, all in the midst of innocent children and families who deserve protection.

It’s better to cooperate now than wait until tragedy strikes or wait until the Trump administration begins to identify and deport dangerous illegal immigrants.

It’s one thing to sit back and defend potential sex offenders and other felons, but it’s another thing to defend clearly dangerous residents of these state shelters.

If there should be a tragedy, Healey and Wu and other Democrats who reflexively oppose ICE will be wearing it and suffering the political and moral consequences.

Mayor Michelle Wu (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

Revere Police photo of the drugs and weapon seized as part of the arrest at the Quality Inn. (Revere Police & Suffolk Sheriffs)