Congressman Seth Moulton, who represents the 6th District including Marblehead, traveled to Minneapolis earlier this week following the killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year old ICU nurse, by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents on Saturday morning.
“I’m trying to learn a lot of lessons for Massachusetts about how to get organized and prepare for this onslaught of state-sponsored terror,” said Moulton in a video posted to his Instagram account Wednesday afternoon. “That’s what’s going on here in Minneapolis: state-sponsored terror.”
Moulton, who is running for U.S. Senate, has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s ramping up of immigration enforcement during his second term, stating in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night: “I don’t think that the comparisons with Nazi Germany are extreme.”
In the video posted to Instagram, Moulton recalled a story told to him by a volunteer regarding ICE’s treatment of protesters and civilians.
“One of these volunteers was just saying that he had his car surrounded by ICE cars,” said Moulton. “ICE cars roll up to him, roll down the window and blast “‘Ice Ice Bab’ at him. ICE officers come up and surround him and yell at him, threaten him. They say they’re going to arrest him. They’re going to track him. ‘We’ve got your license plate. We’re going to know where you’re going to go.’ All intimidation tactics that you would expect to see in a place like Iran or North Korea.”
Moulton added: “But I also heard the incredible inspiration. The way that people are so proud of the city for standing up, for fighting for freedom, for fighting for the rule of law, fighting for the U.S. Constitution. The people of Minnesota are standing on the ramparts of freedom in America, just the way that revolutionaries stood on those ramparts of freedom in Massachusetts against the king.”
Speaking to Fox News Digital, Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs for the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said that Moulton “is intentionally stoking the flames and turning up the temperature with this rhetoric. From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi Gestapo to glorifying rioters, the vilification of ICE must stop.”
McLaughlin added that the Congressman should be “thanking ICE for removing these worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from his state.”
