After encouraging illegal migrants to come to Massachusetts for political reasons, then almost bankrupting the state supporting them, an indignant Maura Healey and other Democrats are blaming President Trump for spreading fear and intimidation in the immigrant community.

Attorney General Andrea Campbell is putting out “guidance” to illegal immigrants about how they should deal with ICE, when her job is to protect actual citizens of Massachusetts.

“From arresting parents in front of their children to pulling people who present no public safety threat out of their cars in broad daylight, the aggressive ICE tactics we’re seeing across the Commonwealth do not protect the public and instead spread fear,” Campbell, who has had a meteoric rise from failed Boston mayoral candidate to AG, said. “In releasing this guidance, I strongly encourage everyone to inform themselves of their rights when they see immigration officers in their communities.”

Both Healey and Campbell are clearly siding with people who are in Massachusetts illegally, many of whom are felons or criminals.

This could come as a surprise to voters who supported them, and may explain why half of Bay State residents don’t approve of the way Healey is doing her job.

Healey – whose state has an order preventing police from assisting immigration authorities – is demanding information from ICE about the arrest of a Milford high school junior.

“Yet again, local officials and law enforcement have been left in the dark with no heads up and no answers to their questions,” Healey said in a statement. “I’m demanding that ICE provide immediate information about why he was arrested, where he is and how his due process is being protected.”

It’s not a one way street, governor.

If you want ICE’s cooperation, then cooperate with ICE.

Why should ICE tell Healey’s office or police anything? They’re not obligated to inform the governor of anything.

But after getting a beating from Healey and other Democrats, ICE came out swinging on Monday.

“Sanctuary policies put us in a position to go out into communities and look for people,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Acting Director Patricia Hyde said at a press conference. “When jurisdictions don’t cooperate with ICE and we don’t arrest people, in custodial arrests, then we must go out into the community. And when we go out into the community and we find others who are unlawfully here, we are going to arrest them.”

Hyde and officials said they weren’t looking for the 18-year-old Milford student, but his father, who is still in hiding.

Why hasn’t the father surrendered to ICE? Why haven’t they filed for asylum before?

Those are good questions for Democrats now demanding ICE release the 18-year-old and others arrested in sweeps across Massachusetts.