Ross Cristantiello, “These Mass. congressmen signed a resolution thanking ICE for ‘protecting the homeland.’ Here’s why.,” Boston.com, June 11, 2025.
Cohn told Boston.com that ICE is “terrorizing” communities across Massachusetts and “acting in service of a hateful vision from Donald Trump and his desire for a more repressive, more divided country.”
He characterized the vote on this resolution as a “dishonest trap” set by congressional Republicans and another example of them wanting to “weaponize” concerns about antisemitism. He pointed to another resolution that condemned the Boulder attack without any language referencing ICE. It was overwhelmingly passed 7 minutes later, Cohn said.
“You do not need to praise ICE in order to condemn the recent attack and tragedy in Boulder,” he said. “The Democrats who voted with Republicans on HRES488 should start actually listening to their constituents about what safety means and focus on fighting the cruelty, chaos, corruption, and constitutional crisis of the Trump administration, not whitewashing what ICE is doing.”
