Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey demand Border Patrol to ‘reverse course’ on deploying SWAT teams to sanctuary cities.
In the letter to the heads of Customs and Border Protection, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security the two Senators addressed the CBP announcement that its Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) will be sent to cities that refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
"The BORTAC deployment to Boston and other cities is unnecessary, unwelcome, and dangerous. But the specter of heavily armed, military-like personnel in our cities will accomplish one thing: provoke fear," Warren and Markey wrote.
"We write to demand that you reverse course and to pose questions to better understand your rationale for employing paramilitary-style immigration personnel...in Boston and elsewhere in the United States,” they added.
The CBP would be deployed to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, New Orleans, Detroit and Newark, N.J.