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Gov. Maura Healey, D-Mass., said she “hopes” that President Donald Trump is able to fix the border after previously criticizing him over his deportation efforts.
Healey shared the new perspective during an interview on Boston Public Radio on Tuesday.
“In just the last two years of my administration … we did see an increase in numbers at the shelters because of Congress’s failure to fix the border,” Healey told Boston Public Radio Tuesday.
“I mean, that’s what happened. We saw an increase in numbers. Donald Trump killed that bill a year ago … he ran on fixing the border. He has the opportunity now with the House and Senate and being in charge of the administration,” the governor said. “I hope he does.”
The new words also came as the governor addressed a suspect reportedly found with $750,000 in drugs and an AR-15 rifle at a hotel in Revere, Massachusetts, currently being used as a migrant shelter.
The suspect, Leonardo Andujar Sanchez, from the Dominican Republic, is facing firearm and drug trafficking charges, according to Fox News.
Healey previously joined other Democratic governors after Trump’s election win in stating that her state would not cooperate with his administration’s deportation efforts.
Incoming Trump border czar Tom Homan has warned governors and other Democrats not to block deportation efforts. During a Sunday interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” with Margaret Brennan, he said countries like Venezuela will receive deported citizens even if they state that they will not accept them.
“Well, first of all, we got President Trump coming to the Oval Office, and he’s proven during his first administration, his leadership on illegal immigration was a game changer, because, for instance, El Salvador wouldn’t take back MS-13 members when I was the ICE Director,” he said. “It took President Trump 48 hours to get El Salvador to take back their criminal aliens into their prisons.”
“And Mexico didn’t want to do the Remain in Mexico program,” he continued. “But President Trump was able to get Remain in Mexico established in Mexico. He was able to get Mexico put military on the southern and northern border.”
