Speaker 1: It's nice side with Dan Ray. I'm WBSY, Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone, Thanks very much, Dan Watkins. As we
Speaker 2: move into our post of the program, will you have
Speaker 2: a chance to participate here in this participatory sport called
Speaker 2: talk radio. My name is Dan Ray, and we are
Speaker 2: joined by Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn, and we want
Speaker 2: to talk about some action that occurred here in Boston
Speaker 2: within the last I guess twenty four to thirty six hours.
Speaker 2: Ed Flynn, welcome back to night, said, how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Dan, It's good to be with you.
Speaker 2: Let me just get one thing really out of the way.
Speaker 2: And you were looking at the possibility of running for
Speaker 2: mayor of Boston this year, and it was a few
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago that you made the announcement that
Speaker 2: this was not your time, You were not going to
Speaker 2: be running this year. What went into that decision? If
Speaker 2: you if you could share any any insight with our audience,
Speaker 2: because I know there are a lot of people who
Speaker 2: were who were hoping that you would be on that
Speaker 2: you will be in the ballot for city council. But
Speaker 2: they were hoping you're going to be in the ballot
Speaker 2: in the mayor's race. What what went into your thinking?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: No, thank you, Dan, it's a it's a it's a
Speaker 3: good question. I had a lot of people reach out
Speaker 3: to me asking my opinion or asking my advice on
Speaker 3: what what I thought about the next about the mayor's
Speaker 3: election and what I what I consider running I did.
Speaker 3: I did seriously consider it. I I did decide that
Speaker 3: it's likely that I will run for one more term
Speaker 3: on the on the Boston City Council, and I do
Speaker 3: want to continue working in city government. I I know
Speaker 3: that there are a lot of significant challenges facing the city.
Speaker 3: I still think I have something to offer, whether that
Speaker 3: was for higher office or whether it's currently at the
Speaker 3: City Council. So I'm comfortable with my decision of running
Speaker 3: for one more term of the City Council, and I
Speaker 3: guess I'll see what happens after that, whether I leave
Speaker 3: politics or I'd like to work in helping returning veterans
Speaker 3: dealing with PTSD related issues. But you know, I love
Speaker 3: the city. I want to be involved, I want to
Speaker 3: stay active and want to provide positive leadership.
Speaker 2: Well, your city has a great tradition of leadership in Boston,
Speaker 2: Obviously everyone is aware that your dad was mayor for
Speaker 2: many years. He was elected for two terms here in
Speaker 2: eighty three and eighty seven, and also in ninety one.
Speaker 2: I should actually that's right, three dms and then served
Speaker 2: as US ambassador to the Vatican and has been involved
Speaker 2: in the city well, he himself had been on the
Speaker 2: city council as well. So let's talk about ice raids.
Speaker 2: We have had it. This is Thursday, Monday. We had
Speaker 2: a changing into the guard in Washington. President Biden left
Speaker 2: the office for the final time. President Trump returned to
Speaker 2: sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue, and there has been already across
Speaker 2: the country about five hundred ice arrests with the purpose
Speaker 2: of deporting these individuals, many of them some of them
Speaker 2: having come here in Boston. It's been a little unclear.
Speaker 2: I do know that there was a network, Fox Network
Speaker 2: was embedded with the the raids here in Boston. And
Speaker 2: actually we have some interesting sound. There was one individual
Speaker 2: who was arrested, and this is courtesy of Fox rob
Speaker 2: Play Cup thirty one. This gives you a sense of
Speaker 2: what it was like out there that you're going to hear.
Speaker 2: You have to listen carefully to this a man who's
Speaker 2: alleged to be a Haitian gang member, who was here
Speaker 2: and who allegedly and again allegedly was facing upwards of
Speaker 2: seventeen serious criminal charges and described as a gang member.
Speaker 2: This is what he had to say as he was
Speaker 2: being put into a wagon to be transported. I assume
Speaker 2: to a nice detention center. Go ahead, Rob, I'm not
Speaker 2: going back to Hayden.
Speaker 5: I mean no Biden for aver bro. Thank Obama for
Speaker 5: everything that he said for me.
Speaker 2: Both he was not happy with Donald Trump, he liked
Speaker 2: Joe Biden, and he may find himself unceremoniously deported because
Speaker 2: of his criminal record and also being here illegally as
Speaker 2: an illegal alien. What's been going on my understanding in
Speaker 2: talking with you earlier today, did you be getting some
Speaker 2: phone calls from around the city.
Speaker 3: That's correct, Dan, I have received calls from residents to
Speaker 3: throughout the city, and I have talked to people in
Speaker 3: public Safety and Greater Boston as well. But I do
Speaker 3: know that Immigration custom Enforcement federal officials are in Boston
Speaker 3: and they are doing immigration reglated issues in terms of
Speaker 3: making arrest for people with outstanding warrants, whether they have
Speaker 3: open criminal charges, convictions, especially for serious criminal charges. I
Speaker 3: do know that ICE is here in Boston, and I
Speaker 3: think they're following up on the promises made by President
Speaker 3: Trump when he ran for president that this is exactly
Speaker 3: what he was going to do. And it seems like
Speaker 3: he is doing exactly what he said he was going
Speaker 3: to do during the campaign. What I believe, Dan, I
Speaker 3: think it's critical as it reates the city of Boston.
Speaker 3: I think it's critical that the Boston Police Department, under
Speaker 3: Commissioner Cox, I think they have to maintain a positive, respectful,
Speaker 3: working relationship with federal law enforcement partners, including ICE. I
Speaker 3: believe when someone commits a crime, regardless of their immigration status,
Speaker 3: I don't think we can stand in the way of
Speaker 3: justice for a victim or respect for the rule of
Speaker 3: law and society. I think it's critical that Boston Police
Speaker 3: develop a working relationship with Immigration custom Enforcement, and I
Speaker 3: have asked Commissioner Cox to meet directly with ICE to
Speaker 3: discuss outstanding issues and communication challenges that have been there
Speaker 3: for a long period of time between Boston and federal officials.
Speaker 2: That meaning, have it taken place, to the best of
Speaker 2: your knowledge, To.
Speaker 3: The best of my knowledge, no, it has not, Dan,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you if you're familiar, but I
Speaker 3: sent I sent a detailed letter to the Police Commissioner
Speaker 3: seeking clarification regarding the number of federal immigration detainer request
Speaker 3: Boston or Boston Police rather received last year. Twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: The Herald reported that there were one hundred and ninety
Speaker 3: eight immigration detainer requests by Ice last year, far higher
Speaker 3: than the fifteen detainer requests communicated by the Police commission
Speaker 3: in a letter directly to the City Council in the
Speaker 3: City Clerk. So you know, I have significant concerns and
Speaker 3: questions about the discrepancy of this data. Following this letter
Speaker 3: to the Police Commissioner, I also filed the hearing order
Speaker 3: that I spoke on recently. But I think it's important
Speaker 3: Dan to have the most updated, inaccurate information, and I
Speaker 3: want to know why there's this discrepancy of data between
Speaker 3: Boston Police and federal ICE officials. I could see if
Speaker 3: it was one or two off, that may have been
Speaker 3: a clerical mistake, but one hundred and six seventy or
Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy five that's not a clerical mistake.
Speaker 3: Boston Police shocked it up to some type of issue
Speaker 3: with the fax machine. But I'll give them the benefit
Speaker 3: of the benefit of the doubt. But I do think
Speaker 3: that Boston Police in ICE need to sit down, communicate
Speaker 3: and discuss communication challenges that they're currently facing.
Speaker 2: Did did you ever get a response? I'm looking at
Speaker 2: the letter right now. You issued this letter on January ninth,
Speaker 2: earlier this month to Michael Cox, Boston Police Commissioner. You wrote,
Speaker 2: and it's regarding twenty twenty four Boston detainer request. I'm
Speaker 2: running today seeking clarification regarding the number of federal immigration
Speaker 2: detainer requests Boston received in twenty twenty four. The Boston
Speaker 2: Herald reported today that there were one hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: eight immigration detainer requests by the US Immigration and Customs
Speaker 2: Enforcement ICE last year, far higher than the fifteen detainer
Speaker 2: requests communicated by the Boston Police Department in a letter
Speaker 2: to the city Clerk, I have concerns and questions about
Speaker 2: the discrepancy of this data. Difference between fifteen and one
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety eight that's a huge difference, an absolutely
Speaker 2: huge difference. Did you ever get a response from the commission?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't. I was disappointed I did not receive
Speaker 3: a response to the letter. I do think that I
Speaker 3: should receive a response, and it's not just about me,
Speaker 3: it's about the residents of the city. When I send
Speaker 3: a letterature someone in my official capacity, I think I'm
Speaker 3: speaking on behalf of my constituents in the residence as well.
Speaker 3: So I do think the residents are entitled to know
Speaker 3: if there was a discrepancy in the data and why
Speaker 3: there was a discrepancy in the data. When you're an
Speaker 3: elected official, you like to have the most updated, inaccurate information,
Speaker 3: and when you're not provided accurate, updated information, it's frustrating.
Speaker 3: So I think it's worth us, worth the city Council
Speaker 3: to discuss it, to have a hearing what broke down
Speaker 3: in terms of the communication between the police commissioner and
Speaker 3: the ice chief here in Boston. Todd Lyons a well
Speaker 3: respected public safety professional.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can tell you this. We have been questing
Speaker 2: Commissioner Cox to come on this program for over a
Speaker 2: year now to talk to our listeners and answer questions
Speaker 2: here on Nightside, and we have been declined. He's never
Speaker 2: His public relations people have always told us, well, his
Speaker 2: schedule is very busy, and I have no doubt, but
Speaker 2: he certainly has he's at a public meeting with twenty
Speaker 2: people or something like that. He can be here at
Speaker 2: a public meeting virtually on nightside and talk to hundreds
Speaker 2: or thousands of Bostonians on any given night, and it's
Speaker 2: very frustrating. Probably the most uncooperative Boston Police commissioner that
Speaker 2: I've ever experienced, going back a long way, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break. I want to find out what
Speaker 2: the status is in terms of Boston as a sanctuary city,
Speaker 2: because I keep reading all the remarks the governor now
Speaker 2: says we are not a sanctuary state, although we do
Speaker 2: provide sanctuary for indie visuals who are coming into the state.
Speaker 2: I'll take the governor at her word. I want to
Speaker 2: find out from you is Boston a sanctuary city? And
Speaker 2: I also want to have the listeners an opportunity to
Speaker 2: call and ask any questions of you. And I also
Speaker 2: would like to know from my listeners do you feel
Speaker 2: that you as as as a resident, whether you're in
Speaker 2: Boston or somewhere else. Are you happy that ICE is
Speaker 2: now out trying to make an affirmative effort to get
Speaker 2: illegal aliens who have committed criminal acts up to an
Speaker 2: including murder out of this country or do you feel
Speaker 2: that is a waste of time? Uh, And we should
Speaker 2: go back to the to the policies of the previous administration.
Speaker 2: I'd love to know what people think. Six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: My guest Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn, and we're talking
Speaker 2: about I think probably one of the most important issues
Speaker 2: of our time, because that illegal immigrant or illegal alien
Speaker 2: who is deported tonight or tomorrow may may have been
Speaker 2: someone who would have imposed a criminal action upon you
Speaker 2: or a family member. Think of it that way. This
Speaker 2: is this is a weird time and a lot of
Speaker 2: people have I think misplaced priorities. Ed Flynn has no
Speaker 2: misplaced priority. He is actually concerned about the residents not
Speaker 2: only of his district, but of the entire city of Boston.
Speaker 2: Join the conversation back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: nights Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: My guest is Ed Flynn, Boston City Councilor. Is Boston
Speaker 2: a sanctuary city?
Speaker 3: Dan, It's what I think needs to happen here in
Speaker 3: Boston in the country. I think the city needs to
Speaker 3: explain exactly what the term is and what it means.
Speaker 3: I think people have different definitions of it, and that's
Speaker 3: one of the reasons I asked the Commissioner and ICE
Speaker 3: to meet to clarify exactly what will happen to immigrants
Speaker 3: in this city, especially those that are that are arrested
Speaker 3: and convicted and have a criminal record. What is the
Speaker 3: role of the Boston Police, What is the role of
Speaker 3: the federal government. I don't think, to be honest with you, Dan,
Speaker 3: Boston has an understanding or of exactly what is going
Speaker 3: to take place, and I don't think they've communicated with
Speaker 3: ICE at all. So what is lacking is an understanding
Speaker 3: of what is happening without a criminal justice system in
Speaker 3: Boston and people that are in in the country illegally
Speaker 3: or undocumented, what is their status as it relates to
Speaker 3: being arrested. I think if someone commits a crime, in
Speaker 3: my opinion, if someone commits a crime, they have to
Speaker 3: be dealt with with the criminal justice system, and regardless
Speaker 3: of what that particular crime is. I don't think we're
Speaker 3: I think Boston police need to work closely with federal
Speaker 3: officials to provide the safest community we can. I don't
Speaker 3: know about the terminology. I would say that we are,
Speaker 3: but I also understand that people are saying that the
Speaker 3: Commonwealth of Massachusetts is not. So I really don't have
Speaker 3: the best definitions on it.
Speaker 2: Just to back you up on it, let me play.
Speaker 2: This is Governor Maura Heally talking with WBZ CBS Boston's
Speaker 2: John Keller cut number thirty rob.
Speaker 6: Foreseeing the number of migrant families coming into Massachusetts go
Speaker 6: way down. That's good because I've also sent the message Massachusetts,
Speaker 6: we are not a sanctuary state. If you come here,
Speaker 6: there is not housing here, and I think that's been
Speaker 6: effective in changing the trajectory of what we're seeing.
Speaker 2: So so the governor says, we're not a sanctuary state. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm assuming that in order for Boston to be a
Speaker 2: sanctuary city. I'm assuming that the city Council must must
Speaker 2: consider a resolution and then which would be signed off
Speaker 2: by the mayor. But to the best of my knowledge,
Speaker 2: there's no resolution that has been passed by the city
Speaker 2: Council and signed off by the mayor. And I stand
Speaker 2: to be corrected by that Council of Flynn if I'm.
Speaker 3: Wrong, and no, I think I think you're correct. There
Speaker 3: was a there was an under Mayor Walsh and and
Speaker 3: I believe it was City Council as Zakim City Council
Speaker 3: ZACOM really played a key key role on on this
Speaker 3: issue on the City Council. But but Dan, what what what?
Speaker 3: What also is happening is the the residents don't have
Speaker 3: any idea of what the terminology is because the city
Speaker 3: leaders haven't explained it to them and Boston Police has
Speaker 3: not communicated at all on what exactly is taking place
Speaker 3: in the city. Usually you could get that done for
Speaker 3: the Boston City Council to have a hearing, to have
Speaker 3: the Police commission to come in to ask these questions.
Speaker 3: But I do know that the Boston Police is not
Speaker 3: interested in coming to the City Council to just to
Speaker 3: discuss this issue. So when you don't have accurate information,
Speaker 3: it does seem like people make up their own information.
Speaker 2: I don't see. I don't see, Council why the City
Speaker 2: Council can't issue a directive to the Police Commissioner. I
Speaker 2: know that he works for the mayor and does the
Speaker 2: Mayor's bidding. I get that, but you're an equal branch
Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned in Boston, as the legislative
Speaker 2: branch here, you should have the absolute authority to force
Speaker 2: him to commit and answer questions on a reasonable schedule.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't say to him, say they show
Speaker 2: up at three o'clock in the morning, but there could
Speaker 2: be a time selected so that he would commit and
Speaker 2: answer questions. Let's do this, and.
Speaker 3: I agree again, I agree, thank you, and.
Speaker 2: I hope that you guys considered. I know that the
Speaker 2: City Council right now is an interesting group of people
Speaker 2: who are dealing with, you know, some issues apart from
Speaker 2: their responsibility, some of them apart from their responsibilities to
Speaker 2: represent their constituents. And I know that there's there's you know,
Speaker 2: different clicks and all of that, and it's difficult to
Speaker 2: get the City Council to move in one direction or
Speaker 2: the other. But I hope that in the interest of
Speaker 2: of clarity, they would do that and just find out
Speaker 2: what the city status is, particularly now in view of
Speaker 2: what the governor has said repeatedly that we are not
Speaker 2: a sanctuary state.
Speaker 3: Dan know what. One of the issues, one of the
Speaker 3: issues we have on the council is most of my
Speaker 3: colleagues on the City Council were supported for their campaign
Speaker 3: by Maya Wu and so they will not hold any issue.
Speaker 3: They will not have a hearing if it's controversial or
Speaker 3: if it if it causes any problems for the administration.
Speaker 3: So they can just sit on resolutions, they can sit
Speaker 3: on hearing orders and not hold anything because they don't
Speaker 3: want the controversy. We had a nine hour meeting yesterday
Speaker 3: on White Stadium. Yeah, and many of my colleagues didn't
Speaker 3: even bother showing up because it's a controversial issue and
Speaker 3: they did not want to be on the wrong side
Speaker 3: the administration.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you that's that is not good for
Speaker 2: the residents of Boston, and the residents Boston, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: need to wake up and they need to perhaps inject
Speaker 2: some new blood into that city council because normally there's
Speaker 2: a there's a tension that exists between the you know,
Speaker 2: when when the government is doing its its job correctly,
Speaker 2: the city council and the government and the mayor sometimes
Speaker 2: are at odds on issues and they work things out.
Speaker 2: If the city councilors, you know, unlike yourself in a
Speaker 2: and two or three others just roll over for the
Speaker 2: mayor what's the purpose of the city council. Then it's
Speaker 2: it's very frustrating. I'm not a Boston resident, you know anymore.
Speaker 2: I grew up in the city uh and and I
Speaker 2: think I think Boston is facing some real serious issues,
Speaker 2: one of which we're talking about tonight. My guest councilor
Speaker 2: Ed Flynn will take some phone calls. I do have
Speaker 2: a couple of lines at six one, seven thirty. Those
Speaker 2: two lines are open and the other lines will sixty.
Speaker 2: Feel free to join us and we will will discuss
Speaker 2: this issue. We do know that Massachusetts is not a
Speaker 2: sanctuary state. I think the governor said that she actually
Speaker 2: uh is anxious to have criminals removed from the state.
Speaker 2: I mean, we have enough criminals here. We had we
Speaker 2: had arraignments today in Middlesex Court for three inmates who
Speaker 2: basically did a beat down on some guards, and so
Speaker 2: we have plenty of criminals here. We don't need to
Speaker 2: import more criminals, and we need to get rid of
Speaker 2: as many of the criminals as we possibly can, particularly
Speaker 2: those who really have no right to be here, are
Speaker 2: here illegally. We'll be back on Nightside, coming back right
Speaker 2: after this.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on.
Speaker 2: Boston's news radio, my guest Boston City council Ed Flynn
Speaker 2: talking about the ice raids in Boston over the last
Speaker 2: thirty six hours. And I think you told me today
Speaker 2: as you had called all from calls from residents in
Speaker 2: Boston in a Fields corner, East Boston and Trousetown's amongst
Speaker 2: other places. Correct, that's correct, Dan, Okay, let's let's go
Speaker 2: to phone calls here and see what people have to say.
Speaker 2: They can express whatever opinion. Again, if you have questions,
Speaker 2: feel free to direct them to counselor Flynn. We ask
Speaker 2: everybody to respect the guests as we respect. The call
Speaker 2: is Mark and Cambridge Mark first, this hour and nightside.
Speaker 7: Welcome, Hey Dan, Hey, Counselor Flynn, thank you for taking
Speaker 7: my call.
Speaker 8: I would like to say that I lived in Boston
Speaker 8: all my life. I live in Cambridge now, but I
Speaker 8: still work in the Boston area towing and everything else
Speaker 8: I do with tip away and towing.
Speaker 7: I'm a operator.
Speaker 8: Anyway, I'm gonna keep this short and simple.
Speaker 7: In my opinion, in my opinion, the law is a law,
Speaker 7: and that is be here on American soil. And you
Speaker 7: are illegal, you are subject to erect and importation.
Speaker 9: ICE.
Speaker 8: In my opinion, ICE is doing their job and they're
Speaker 8: doing what their so Tom Holman instructed them to do,
Speaker 8: and that is to go out and look for the
Speaker 8: criminal illegal aliens.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what that's what you know, Mark, You're absolutely correct.
Speaker 2: That is what ICE is doing at this point. And
Speaker 2: today I was listening to, uh, some of the comments
Speaker 2: by the advocates for illegal immigrants who basically are saying, well,
Speaker 2: they're coming into the churches, they're coming into the schools.
Speaker 2: There's no evidence of that as yet. They have arrested
Speaker 2: people in private residences who they knew were there or
Speaker 2: they said they had reason to suspect they were there,
Speaker 2: and these were people who had warrants out on them,
Speaker 2: and they're going They're not going after the low hanging fruit.
Speaker 2: They're going after people who should not be hearing, people
Speaker 2: who should be removed if they are here.
Speaker 3: I think that's I think that's I think that's the key.
Speaker 3: The key point, Dan is it seems like ICE right
Speaker 3: now is going after people with outstanding warrants and violent
Speaker 3: criminal past. And I think I think that's exactly what
Speaker 3: they should be doing. You know, anyone here with a
Speaker 3: with a open, open criminal case that has a violent,
Speaker 3: violent past. They they deserve to be in custody, whether
Speaker 3: it's in ice custody at Boston police custody custody.
Speaker 2: Well, well, I appreciate Mark, I appreciate your call. I
Speaker 2: got full Walms, I got to keep rolling here, but
Speaker 2: thank you. You're always welcome here on nightside. Thank you
Speaker 2: have a good one. Let me go from Mark in Cambridge.
Speaker 2: Let me get to Seawn in Brighton. Sean, you were
Speaker 2: next on nights. I go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Good evening, Dan, and good evening, counselaw and how Sean,
Speaker 3: it's good to be with you.
Speaker 10: Lifetime Boston resident and some big span, big fan of
Speaker 10: what you're doing. And as we work our way through
Speaker 10: this problem, guys, I think you'd agree with me. It's
Speaker 10: as bad as we've heard it is. The first guy
Speaker 10: they got today on the Fox News clip, Al Salvador
Speaker 10: MS thirteen wanted for aggravated murder back home into Paul
Speaker 10: was looking for him. I'll offer this, We're not any
Speaker 10: less of a country or a community now that he's going.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're a much safer community, a much safer country,
Speaker 2: and a much safer we call both of Massachusetts City
Speaker 2: of boss and I just don't understand the people who
Speaker 2: somehow feel that we should be obligated to protect criminal
Speaker 2: illegal immigrants or illegal aliens because they've changed the terminology
Speaker 2: now they call them new or whatever migrants. It's crazy, yeah, Dan,
Speaker 2: and Sean.
Speaker 3: And Sean made a good point when he brought up Interopol,
Speaker 3: and that is as you know, it's a it's an
Speaker 3: international basically a warrant system that can tell if there
Speaker 3: is an open warrant or open criminal case for someone,
Speaker 3: regardless of where they're living. It could be in Europe,
Speaker 3: it could be it could be somewhere else. But if
Speaker 3: someone is has a red flag and Interpol and they're
Speaker 3: pulled over, that warrant could pop up in the system
Speaker 3: and the person could be held in custody because of
Speaker 3: a open warrant in another country. That's a critical tool
Speaker 3: tool that we use here in the United States. But
Speaker 3: but it does help, and anyone that has an outstanding
Speaker 3: criminal open case in another country should be deal with
Speaker 3: appropriately and not giving a free pass.
Speaker 2: The days for prepasses are over. Hey, Sean, I appreciate
Speaker 2: your support, appreciate you listening to the program. We need
Speaker 2: to hear your voice more often. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 10: More before I go that guy go ahead, absolutely, you
Speaker 10: don't have the.
Speaker 11: Guy from Haiti.
Speaker 10: You don't have to go back there, but he can't
Speaker 10: stay here.
Speaker 2: Well that guy, that guy looked crazy. I saw that
Speaker 2: video and he was an expletive deleted to Trump and
Speaker 2: he was singing the praises of matter of fact. Let
Speaker 2: me play that again because people might not have.
Speaker 10: That's the sound by the air.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here we go, stay right there. I want you
Speaker 2: to hear it one more time. This is this is
Speaker 2: the the Haitian gang member who had seventeen criminal charges outstanding.
Speaker 2: As he was being put into an ice vehicle, he
Speaker 2: was screaming. We had to we had to bleep this
Speaker 2: a little bit, but you'll get the picture. Rob cut
Speaker 2: thirty one.
Speaker 5: I'm not going back to Hayden you feel, I mean,
Speaker 5: no fighting for aw bro say Obama for everything that he.
Speaker 2: Said for me. Both. That is the sound body of
Speaker 2: the year, Jean.
Speaker 10: Thank you, Thanks to good Thank.
Speaker 2: You, Miche. You keep rolling here real quickly. Luciano in Pennsylvania. Luciano,
Speaker 2: I only got at a bout a minute here before
Speaker 2: the break. Go right ahead. I'll get you in quickly.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Holding, the head of Home Land Security, says he's in
Speaker 11: New Yorker.
Speaker 12: He's not gonna be intimidated by Eric Adams of New York, Boston, Philadelphia.
Speaker 12: He says he knows where the migrants are at. He
Speaker 12: specifically stated, and he's not gonna be tim mad by
Speaker 12: none of these mayors. If worse comes to worst, we're
Speaker 12: gonna strip them of their uh federal aid and we're
Speaker 12: going to see who jumps first, he said. Holden said
Speaker 12: it on Fox News.
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you, let me tell Youiano. Mayor
Speaker 2: Adams actually believe went uh. Mayor Adams, the mayor New
Speaker 2: York who who you referred to, actually was in Mara
Speaker 2: a Lago and basically said to Donald Trump that the
Speaker 2: Democrat that he didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic
Speaker 2: Party left him. And I believe that he now feels
Speaker 2: that it's a huge problem in New York, don't I
Speaker 2: think Mayor Adams is going to be one of the
Speaker 2: leading mayors to cooperate. I'm not sure that Mayor who
Speaker 2: was going to cooperate, but I think Mayor Adams is
Speaker 2: a line. As a matter of fact, the mayor of
Speaker 2: Denver Colorado, who himself had staked out a pretty strong position,
Speaker 2: said now he's willing to cooperate on getting rid of
Speaker 2: the criminal element.
Speaker 13: Go ahead, counsel in Philadelphia, my home state.
Speaker 2: I want to hear from the Council of Luciano as
Speaker 2: much as I want to hear from you, Ed do
Speaker 2: you want did you want to comment on what you've
Speaker 2: heard from Mayor Adams?
Speaker 3: I think it's important to stan. I think it's important
Speaker 3: for mayors and governors to work closely with federal officials
Speaker 3: on all issues impacting public safety. And if an elected
Speaker 3: official is not working with the federal government, they should
Speaker 3: not be. I think they should be working with them.
Speaker 3: But if they are not, they should not be in
Speaker 3: their way are hurting them also. But you know, if
Speaker 3: we don't, if we don't work with our federal partners,
Speaker 3: we don't want to put any anyone, any public safety
Speaker 3: official their life and jeopardy either in danger, and those
Speaker 3: things can happen if city, state and federal are not
Speaker 3: on the same page and they're not working together when
Speaker 3: they're in the same neighborhood. So I think I think
Speaker 3: a working professional relationship between city, state and federal partners
Speaker 3: has to take place, and you know the politics, Dan
Speaker 3: should not be part of it as an elected official.
Speaker 3: What's important is the safety the security of the residents.
Speaker 3: I think we all support legal immigration, we support the
Speaker 3: rights of immigrants, but we also support safe communities. In
Speaker 3: the way you have safe communities is developing working relationships,
Speaker 3: in respectful partnerships between cities, state and federal officials. I
Speaker 3: think that's critically needed, especially in our big cities across
Speaker 3: the country, and it is.
Speaker 2: Much safer for everyone involved, including the illegals in their neighbors.
Speaker 2: If when they are taken into custody by local police
Speaker 2: on an outstanding warrant to cooperate with the federal government
Speaker 2: and if there's a detainer on that individual, allowed them
Speaker 2: to be transferred to ICE while they're in custody, because
Speaker 2: those ICE officers are walking into apartment buildings whatever, they
Speaker 2: have no idea what's on the other side of the door,
Speaker 2: and those politicians are putting men and women of law
Speaker 2: enforcement in extreme danger. Luciano, thank you for your call.
Speaker 2: I got to keep running here because we got to
Speaker 2: go to a break. Appreciated Luciano. Coming back on Nightside
Speaker 2: with Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the window World.
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Speaker 2: Back to the cause we go. Let's go to market
Speaker 2: and Lexington. Mark next on nightside, getting a little tight
Speaker 2: on time here. Want to get a couple more folks in.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Mark, Hi, good evening, good evening.
Speaker 11: Hey, thank you, thank you for taking the call. A
Speaker 11: lot brush well, Dan, thank you, the counch Will Flynn,
Speaker 11: thank you, thank you. I've been doing construction in Boston
Speaker 11: for forty years. Nights days, weekends, hot days, hot nights,
Speaker 11: cold nights. They're dare dropped by more than once, cut out,
Speaker 11: shook hands with everybody and as you are, wrote the
Speaker 11: community too. Nail, who doesn't get any of this. She
Speaker 11: is a one term wonder in that soccer field that
Speaker 11: is going to be a money pick. And as far
Speaker 11: as the police commissioner, he's out of touch.
Speaker 2: He's unavailable, let's put it. I certainly don't know if
Speaker 2: he's out of touch, Mark, but he's unavailable. He's unavailable
Speaker 2: to the city council, he's unavailable to the callers here
Speaker 2: on nightside.
Speaker 11: So I mean Nail wo and Governor of Healey. They
Speaker 11: were talking tough, but now reality is coming in. If
Speaker 11: they got federal funds to police, commissioner will miss that money.
Speaker 11: I mean, grow up, it's reality. Do your damn jobs.
Speaker 2: Well good point. Good point. Healey. By the way, has
Speaker 2: I think backtracked a lot and she's she's a lot
Speaker 2: more realistic at this point. But again, she's gone through
Speaker 2: this shelter crisis. I think that hit her like a
Speaker 2: ton of bricks. But yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 11: Take I said one thing. Two billion dollars at hotels,
Speaker 11: laundry drop off, pickcaff meals six million dollars at a
Speaker 11: hotel in Taunton on uber are left rights. And now
Speaker 11: she wants to say, we've misinterpreted the status of the law,
Speaker 11: the right to shelter. She didn't know it was a
Speaker 11: mass resident totally counsel.
Speaker 2: And she's gonna she's gonna make it up now by
Speaker 2: taxing candy.
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, how about that council of friends. Best of luck,
Speaker 11: And I tell you what, when the new mayor is elected,
Speaker 11: and I believe it to be Jason Kraft, he you
Speaker 11: will have a safe landing.
Speaker 2: And God bless it's Josh Craft. We talked about Josh
Speaker 2: craft last night.
Speaker 11: Mayo in Governor early one shot wonders sparnlight was too big.
Speaker 11: Take your a and grow up.
Speaker 2: I appreciate, appreciate you. Thank you so much, God bless
Speaker 2: very welcome. We're going to keep going here and you're
Speaker 2: going to try to get a couple more in quickly
Speaker 2: if I can, Mike and Quincy. Mike, you got to
Speaker 2: be quick for me. Go ahead, Mike.
Speaker 13: Yes, mister Dean, I'm glad.
Speaker 4: You are the best.
Speaker 13: I always love he's the voice because you are the best.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Appreciate. What's your question of comments
Speaker 2: for Counsel Flynn.
Speaker 13: I want to say one thing, only one thing. Anybody
Speaker 13: think about the police officers and the people who put
Speaker 13: the I R s and they they put their life,
Speaker 13: their life, and then they don't even know if they're
Speaker 13: going to come back home to the White for the fix.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yep, that's a that's a good point. We
Speaker 3: we we just lost a et cetera official public safety
Speaker 3: official on the border of Vermont and Canada that was
Speaker 3: shot and killed. He was he was actually a US
Speaker 3: veteran as well, served in Ham's Way, but here he
Speaker 3: is working professionally protecting cities and protecting our country. And
Speaker 3: he was killed. But you're exactly right. Our law enforcement
Speaker 3: professionals across the Commonwealth, across the country a df forrest
Speaker 3: every day. At times, I think we don't appreciate them
Speaker 3: and we don't respect them in their families like we should.
Speaker 3: And I think that attitude has to stop.
Speaker 13: One I can't. I'm making nineteen ninety one from North
Speaker 13: Africa because you know what it is. They give me
Speaker 13: the option. I just married to my wife. Her name
Speaker 13: is Maggie. She's from California. We've been for twenty eight years.
Speaker 13: I put up with that A Trump, they got no
Speaker 13: problem with that. And I work with the Tea. I've
Speaker 13: become an operator, an instructor, and then I teach people
Speaker 13: how to drive the train and I teach constructor how
Speaker 13: to do trouble shot it. But the main thing is America,
Speaker 13: give me home, Lade and I have a tea home family,
Speaker 13: and I'm happy with that. America.
Speaker 2: Well, we're very happy Mike that you're here. You're a
Speaker 2: productive person and you love this country, and that's all
Speaker 2: we can ask for. I don't think a lot of
Speaker 2: these illegals who are criminals love this country. They look
Speaker 2: at this country as a place of escape and refuge
Speaker 2: and we don't need them. Simple as Mike, I got
Speaker 2: to get at least one more in Okay.
Speaker 13: You have to understand the things. You have to understand.
Speaker 13: This with Donald Trump, I have a lot of respect
Speaker 13: for him. Is if those people they're no respect below
Speaker 13: anything at else.
Speaker 2: You got it, You got it, Mike, call more often.
Speaker 2: I'm a little rush so I'm gonna let you run.
Speaker 2: But thank you so much. Great to hear your voice.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mike, thank you.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Suzanna and Newton. Susanne, you gotta
Speaker 2: be quick for me. We're right up against the close.
Speaker 9: Yes, I will Dan counselor when, as half of Dan's
Speaker 9: audience does. I was not board in Massachusetts, but I
Speaker 9: think sanctuary estates Satuary cities. They need to be deported.
Speaker 9: They need ice police. And if they've come over the
Speaker 9: border and have a green card, that's one thing. If
Speaker 9: they're here and legally send them back if the country
Speaker 9: will take them, otherwise, put them in jail.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thank you, Susanna, appreciate it. Last
Speaker 2: call of the hour, Mike and Beverly, you're late. I'm
Speaker 2: going to give you about thirty seconds.
Speaker 10: Go ahead, Mike, Hey, Dan, how good?
Speaker 8: Good?
Speaker 4: Thank you ed Place for sharing the being on tonight
Speaker 4: stuff like that. I don't live in Boston. I work
Speaker 4: in Boston, but I just tell you, like you listen
Speaker 4: to uh, you know, the mar Healey and Woo like
Speaker 4: they're out of their mind, and I don't understand what
Speaker 4: part they don't understand by the voters. The voters voted
Speaker 4: they want the league is deported, and how do I
Speaker 4: get it? Why they're not collect collaborating with the police
Speaker 4: on the ice and not talking to them and all
Speaker 4: that sort of stuff like what are you talking to?
Speaker 4: Not gonna have it's going to be a big issue,
Speaker 4: and why he's trying to protect illegals, and.
Speaker 2: We got to leave it there. I wish you called early,
Speaker 2: but I'm out of time. Thank you, Mike, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: To those of you who are still in the line,
Speaker 2: we're changing topics at the EF. You like to stay
Speaker 2: on and talk about the Middle East, stay with us,
Speaker 2: Flynn as always, thank you. I'm a voice of reason
Speaker 2: in radio. I think you're the voice of reason on
Speaker 2: the Boston City Council. Thank you, my friend, Dan.
Speaker 3: It was good to be with you, and it was
Speaker 3: good to be with your guests as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you see when you see Commissioner Cox,
Speaker 2: tell him we're looking forward to talking with the Mirror
Speaker 2: on nightside, because I'm not sure his press staff is
Speaker 2: telling him that.
Speaker 3: I will. Thank you all right.
Speaker 2: Talk to you soon when we get back. We are
Speaker 2: going to change topics and talk about the Israeli hamas
Speaker 2: Ces fire with the with the the Council General of
Speaker 2: Israel to New England. Benny's SHARONI UH going to be
Speaker 2: a great guest, going to be a great conversation. Jump
Speaker 2: on board if you'd like. Back after the ten o'clock
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