Massachusetts’ Healey Seeks Meeting With Trump Border Czar Homan

Days after Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey praised "some" of President Donald Trump's border policies, Healey is now looking to score a meeting with Trump border czar Tom Homan.

Has the governor had an awakening, or is she just trying to get control of the migrant crisis in time before next year's re-election?

In March, State House News Service quoted Healey as saying, "I don't know what his fixation is, to be quite honest," after Homan and ICE apprehended 370 individuals in a Boston area immigration crackdown.

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Homan promised to bring "hell" with him to Boston, saying Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu "should be ashamed of supporting sanctuary policies." Healey insisted that Massachusetts is "not a sanctuary state."

"Local, state, and federal law enforcement continue to work with and partner with one another," Healey said.

Last week, while suggesting that some of what Trump has done at the border "makes a lot of sense," Healey – who once referred to those same policies as "incredibly sad," "incredibly heart-wrenching" and "absolutely un-American" – had less than kind words for ICE.

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SHNS reported that Healey said, "Nobody in this country should have ICE come into their home or into a place of work without due process rights."

"They've just gone too far in terms of the issue of immigration, and that's creating incredible fear in the community and causing a lot of heartache and anxiety," Healey said.

Healey Press Secretary Karissa Hand told me, "The governor has said she would like to meet with Tom Homan." She did not specify what Healey hoped to accomplish by meeting with Trump's border czar.

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Meanwhile, former Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson, the Massachusetts chairman of the 2024 Trump campaign, told WBSM's Chris McCarthy he was approached by a Healey contact who asked if he might mention Hodgson to Healey as someone who might be able to put her in touch with Homan.

Hodgson agreed.

"I will wait for his response," Hodgson said. "He (the contact) did not say she asked him to reach out to me, but he prefaced his conversation by saying he was 'having dinner with Maura Healey.'"

Hodgson, uncertain if Healey was aware of the conversation, said Healey may be saying "whatever she feels will be politically beneficial to her as she looks toward her upcoming election."

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"She has refused to allow state police to cooperate with ICE to identify and remove criminal illegal aliens from our neighborhoods, and after years of pushing a pro illegal immigrant agenda, now says that she supports some of the policy decisions President Trump has made but she refuses to say specifically what those decisions are," Hodgson said.

"She is a poster child for her personal agenda over the needs and benefits of the citizens of Massachusetts," he said.