It’s rich of Mayor Michelle Wu to demonize Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as “secret police” when she leads the least transparent administration in modern Boston history.

She won’t release anything about her own police. We’re still waiting for the police report on the fatal Hyde Park bus accident.

Wu’s administration, especially Boston Police, won’t even comply with the public records law, selectively releases body camera footage of arrests and arbitrarily redacts police reports.

Then she has the gall to say ICE is the secret police.

“People are terrified for their lives and for their neighbors,” Wu said during a visit to one of her “safe” places – public radio last Friday. “Folks getting snatched off the streets by secret police who are wearing masks, who can offer no justification for why certain people are being taken and then detained.”

Wu’s comments must have stung U.S. Attorney Leah Foley, though she waited for a few days to respond, accusing the mayor of drumming up “false narratives” about what ICE does.

“Referring to federal agents as ‘secret police’ is offensive,” Foley said in the video posted on X. “There are no secret police. ICE agents, along with other federal law enforcement partners, are making immigration arrests. That is no secret. They are arresting individuals who are here illegally, which is a violation of federal law. Every enforcement action is conducted within the bounds of the Constitution and our laws with oversight, legal justification and accountability. To claim otherwise is a gross misrepresentation and a disservice to the public.”

And there’s a reason ICE agents have to wear masks. It’s because Democratic activists are doxxing them and their families, creating a dangerous situation.

Wu should know better. She presides over her own police department, which also does a remarkable job given the hoops and howls of protests they must endure.

But good to know Wu has not lost her “defund the police” extremist views on law enforcement, which she has deliberately hid ever since she was elected mayor and pretended to be a friend of police.

Even Gov. Maura Healey hasn’t gone this far – equating ICE to some kind of Nazi police force sneaking around clutching innocent people in the middle of the night.

Wu has now made ICE agents a target of potential violence, inciting the public, which Foley rightly pointed out in a video she released on Wednesday.

If an ICE agent – who has the power of arrest and is just doing their job enforcing the law – gets injured or threatened it’s now on Wu.

The question is, at what point will rank and file Boston police officers speak out?

They are watching their commander-in-chief undercut law enforcement and put agents in danger because of her political opportunism.

But only Foley has the courage to challenge Wu and make sure her rhetoric doesn’t go unchallenged. It’s a refreshing change from past U.S. attorneys like Rachael Rollins.

Foley has demonstrated she’s not a political hack or a pushover.

If only Boston police officers had the same courage to take on Wu – though they’d probably be suspended if they tried.