Not even in office yet and he has turned his back on you.
"Walsh aides seek inaugural donations" by Jim O’Sullivan | Globe Staff, November 28, 2013
Organizers of Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh’s inauguration are asking corporations and individuals for up to $50,000 apiece to bankroll his January inaugural celebration, setting the stage for what could be the city’s priciest mayoral bash ever.
Aides and advisers to Walsh have privately approached corporations and their lobbyists to seek help paying for inaugural events, according to people involved in the discussions who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks. The parties will hail the city’s first new mayor in two decades and offer access to a “private appreciation” event for donors contributing more than $5,000.
A solicitation asking for donations and describing events to celebrate Walsh’s inaugural was circulating among potential donors this week and was obtained by the Boston Globe. A Walsh adviser, however, insisted that it was a draft document that the mayor-elect had not yet approved.
“This ask was premature. We don’t know what we will be asking,” said Walsh spokesman Michael Goldman....
A person close to Walsh said the inaugural committee, still in its planning stages, would not take money from political action committees or labor unions. During the campaign, Walsh came under criticism when unions and groups funded by labor spent more than $2 million to help elect him....
And they were not invited to the party!
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Look who does have a place at the table though:
"Walsh wants Boston out of immigrant ID program; Says it nets too many nonviolent offenders" by Michael Levenson | Globe Staff, November 26, 2013
Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh said Tuesday that he wants Boston to pull out of a controversial federal initiative designed to identify illegal immigrants because he believes too many people are detained for nonviolent offenses.
The Secure Communities program allows the Department of Homeland Security to access fingerprints taken by local police, which federal officials can check against federal immigration databases. Those who are in the country illegally can then be deported.
Asked at a Thanksgiving dinner for immigrants at the State House whether he would continue to enforce the program as mayor, Walsh responded to reporters: “If we can get around it, I won’t.”
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The federal government says it prioritizes for deportation those who pose the greatest threat to public safety, based on their criminal histories. But a Globe analysis this year suggested that federal immigration officials are deporting more immigrants in Massachusetts for civil violations than for serious crimes under the program.
The same series showed that they are also releasing rapists and murderers after six months because the home countries won't take them back.
Walsh’s opposition to Secure Communities represents something of a shift from Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s stance. Under Menino, Boston piloted Secure Communities in 2006, and the program was expanded nationally in 2008.
Several hours after Walsh made his remarks, his spokeswoman, Kathryn Norton, acknowledged that the mayor-elect would not have the authority to end Boston’s participation in the program, because it is a mandatory federal initiative.
“As we understand it, there’s no authority to opt out,” Norton said. “Honestly, it remains to be seen what we’re able to do in the role of mayor of Boston.”
Last year, officials expanded the program in Massachusetts, despite strong opposition from Governor Deval Patrick.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency disputed Walsh’s assertion that Secure Communities targets illegal immigrants arrested for nonviolent offenses.
Gillian M. Christensen, an agency spokeswoman, said federal officials focus on “priority individuals such as convicted criminals and other public safety threats, as well as those who repeatedly violate our immigration laws.”
“The federal government alone sets these priorities and places detainers on individuals arrested on criminal charges to ensure that dangerous criminal aliens and other priority individuals are not released from prisons and jails into our communities,” she said in a statement.
Walsh, the son of Irish immigrants, said that if he cannot end Boston’s participation in Secure Communities, he would seek to “soften” its impact by pushing for state legislation that would limit Massachusetts’ participation in the program.
Walsh said he supports a bill known as the Trust Act that would allow local police to ignore requests from federal immigration officials to detain illegal immigrants, unless those immigrants have committed major crimes.
“Law enforcement, in particular, needs to be able to build relationships of trust with immigrant communities, and they can’t do that with the fear of deportation hanging over the relationship,” Norton said.
Versions of the bill have been enacted recently in California and Connecticut.
Although immigration was not a major focus of Walsh’s campaign for mayor, his remarks on Tuesday were not the first time he has spoken out on the issue.
As a state representative in 2006, he voted for a bill that would have granted in-state tuition rates at public colleges to illegal immigrants who graduated from Massachusetts high schools. “He’s always been supportive of immigrants, including undocumented immigrants,” said state Senator James B. Eldridge, an Acton Democrat, and lead sponsor of the Trust Act.
Menino’s position on Secure Communities has shifted. Initially, he and other city officials strongly defended the program, saying it could help reduce crime in a city that has struggled with gun violence.
Then, in an abrupt reversal in 2011, Menino threatened to withdraw Boston from the program unless federal officials limited their deportation efforts to only those immigrants who committed serious crimes....
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Related: Group to track Walsh’s diversity record
Passing so far, right?
