ICE head Todd Lyons slams Boston Globe report featuring Massachusetts activist

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is slamming the Boston Globe over an article highlighting a local activist who alerts the neighborhood when federal agents are in the area to evade them ICE s Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston field office is responding to the Globe s newest article on how President Trump s deportation push is affecting immigrant communities in the region making a social media comment on the Fourth of July Lately the Boston Globe published an article heralding the efforts of a local activist ICE contacted the Globe hoping to have our director s quote included His quote is below ERO Boston stated in an X post on Friday morning Lyons who formerly led Boston s field office blasted the Globe s overview after he stated he considers himself to represent the finest federal officers and agents tasked with one of the toughest jobs in all of law enforcement Our officers vulnerability their lives every day protecting New England communities from criminal alien offenders Lyons stated He then added Activists like Lucy Pineda are often hailed as heroes by publications with obvious political agendas but if they were to take an honest look at what her and her followers are doing they are enabling people to break the law and more often than they are reassured admitting they are allowing violent criminals to continue to victimize the migrant communities Pineda a -year-old native of El Salvador is the head of Everett-based Latinos Unidos en Massachusetts which the Globe described as a growing organization of assistants that patrol neighborhoods all over the state from Everett to Lynn to Worcester Their mission To warn communities of ICE activity alerting families at vulnerability of deportation the Globe states Federal agents arrested Pineda s brother Emilio Neftaly Pineda an illegal Salvadoran national convicted of domestic assault and battery violating a restraining order and operating a carriage under the influence of alcohol last month in Peabody At the time of the arrest agents stated that the man is also the subject of two arrest warrants in Massachusetts for leaving the scene of an accident and compulsory insurance violation after he failed to appear for his court dates for those charges In response to a Herald inquiry a Globe spokesperson noted We responded to the original email requesting to include a comment and are working to incorporate it in digital and print for our readers The story featured a great number of people throughout the piece The Globe also ran a separate story on Lyons response In May ICE and other federal agents descended on Massachusetts arresting more than people more than any other month on record the record begins Lately a company of Globe reporters photographers and videographers spent a week canvassing immigrant communities to understand the effect of that surge During the program of the reporting the Boston regional office of ICE did not engage with Globe requests to participate it continues However on July after reading the published article Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons provided a report to the Globe A video posted on the Globe s social media accounts on Thursday shows Lucy Pineda interacting with federal agents You re targeting our hardworking population she tells them OK Remember karma exists Karma exists OK Karma exists