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Michelle Wu: “Immigration law is a federal set of policy choices.”

Featuring: Michelle Wu, Democrat | Mayor of Boston | Massachusetts

What is Boston Mayor Michelle Wu doing to protect immigrants?

Published October 24, 2025 | Video Starts at 31:36

The experience of a family who's now dealing with a lot and having to go through the unimaginable. I guess I want to start with this one. Immigration law is a federal set of policy choices. And from one way or another, it feels like most people can agree that the system needs to be fixed. (31:36–31:42)

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Asserts that immigration law is determined by federal policy choices.

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“7 million people around the country, an incredible turnout here in Boston and in cities across the Commonwealth, all united.”
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“Commercial and residential [property taxes] together cannot increase by more than two and a half percent every year.”
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“The rate of inflation on average has been 25% higher than 2.5% increase every year.”
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“The city of Boston now, for the 12th year running, has had a triple A bond rating.”
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“Federal workers who are, despite everything, still showing up to work, doing their jobs, keeping us safe at the airport.”
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“The attempt to disguise mass layoffs as efficiency, the push to shape everything to a partisan political agenda.”
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“There is no amount of resources or executive action or even legislation that could undo the scale of what is happening right now.”
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“These institutions that have been built up around Social Security, Medicaid, Head Start, these have been bipartisan efforts.”
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“The city does not have the discretion to make our own decisions about how taxes are assessed.”
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“Cities do not have the authority to either change their tax law or create different revenue streams.”
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“Everything that we do related to how we fund city services has to flow through the entire state legislature.”
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“Cities everywhere in Massachusetts are feeling the strain of Prop 2 and a half.”
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“Prop. 2 and a half itself came as a response to tax classification, which happened a couple years earlier than that in the 70s.”
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“Yes, they should repeal [Prop 2 and a half].”
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“The city is not in the role to decide whether this [shelter] project moves forward or not. This is a state project.”
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“The state did not consult the city on [the shelter project] and did not consult the community on [it].”
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“This is an as of right project that is happening and the state has not consulted with the city before.”
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“We are going to make sure that whatever happens in this situation where [a] former nursing home looks like it is set to be converted to a…”
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“Previously there was just an outright ban that no basement space, for example, or different contexts could be used for residential.”
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“Mattapan was the very first neighborhood and this was accomplished through their rezoning that happened a few years ago.”
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“We are changing those regulations in the places that it makes sense.”
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“Now we're aiming to change the code itself so that this process will be easy.”
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“We've also worked to create some funding that's available for families who want to do this to get a loan, low or no interest loan, to do…”
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“I have not heard from or spoke, spoken with anyone in the Trump administration about FIFA and the World Cup.”
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“Boston is honored to be one of the host cities.”
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“October 24th is Jaylen Brown Day in the city of Boston.”
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“The Boston Public Library has put on [an exhibition] in nine years.”
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“Our Legacy Business Awards are a new initiative that we had started under our administration.”
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“You can qualify as a legacy business if you been in business for more than 10 years.”
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“They have been operating for 40 years and are a prime example.”
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“The nominations for our next batch of legacy business award winners are open right now through October 31st.”
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“We have done our very best to increase the resources for legal consultation through our Office of Immigrant Advancement.”
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“We have more than tripled the resources available that the city is putting out to support organizations on the ground.”
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“I've signed an executive order and filed now multiple interactions with, through the Freedom of Information act to demand that ICE be held…”
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“We should be able to have the basic information of who they are detaining, where they're taking them, why, what tactics they're using.”
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“We're now embroiled in a series of escalating legal appeals to get them to follow through on providing that information.”
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“Even our federal government is not above following the Constitution and the law, and there needs to be accountability for that.”
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“Yes, I would support [legislation that would outlaw masks for all level of law enforcement].”
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“Food insecurity is an issue that affects every neighborhood.”
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“Now it is very standard for people to be coming in needing help, who are working, who have two incomes in a household.”
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“As housing costs go up, as childcare costs go up, as wages don't keep up with inflation and tariff policy makes everything more expensive at…”
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“What we've done in Boston is to work and provide city resources through our office of Food justice to organizations like the Dorchester Food…”
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“Every policy initiative that we have moved forward, there's been vigorous and differing debates within our Cabinet.”
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“We have engaged a national expert on this and come up with our Boston Rodent action plan.”
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“We have a true citywide coordinated task force to work on [rodent issues].”
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“Dr. Bobby, the nation's leading urban rodentologist helped set this plan for Boston.”
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“We have a greater effort to ensure that the large scale dumpsters, for example, serving our public housing communities or large developments…”
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