Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to seem on ‘The Each day Present’

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The visitor look on the speak present comes on the heels of the mayor’s State of the Metropolis Tackle final week.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will likely be a visitor on “The Each day Present” Tuesday evening, her workplace introduced. 

The late evening look follows Wu’s supply of her State of the Metropolis Tackle final week, throughout which she highlighted town’s accomplishments and supplied sharp phrases of defiance to the Trump administration, using the wave of native goodwill she earned after testifying earlier than Congress earlier this month. 

All through her speech Wednesday, Wu known as Boston a household, stressing town’s historical past of main, standing as much as stress, and discovering “energy in one another.”

“We are going to defend the folks we love with all that we’ve obtained,” she mentioned. “I couldn’t ask for extra in a household. God bless our Metropolis, God bless our folks, and God save whoever messes with Boston.”

Wu’s look on the “The Each day Present” can even mark her first public occasion since President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan boasted on Monday that he adopted via on a promise to “deliver hell” to town with what ICE known as an “enhanced operation.” Homan mentioned at the least 370 folks in and round Boston had been arrested between March 18 and 23 by federal brokers and known as out Wu and Gov. Maura Healey by identify. 

Homan beforehand attacked Wu after the mayor mentioned she supposed to abide by the Boston Belief Act and never have native authorities assist with mass deportations. The mayor addressed Homan throughout her congressional testimony, saying “disgrace on him for mendacity about my metropolis.” 

In a press release on Monday, a spokesperson for the Wu administration urged ICE to launch extra details about the latest arrests.

“Boston is the most secure main metropolis within the nation, and we companion with all ranges of regulation enforcement to forestall crime and maintain perpetrators accountable,” the assertion learn. “On condition that we now have no data on these arrests, we can not verify what number of came about inside Boston police jurisdiction or in different cities, and we can not verify whether or not each particular person was lawfully detained.” 

Wu isn’t the one Massachusetts politician to make high-profile media appearances in latest weeks. Gov. Maura Healey gave a wide-ranging interview with The New York Instances earlier this month andcontinued to make her case towards Trump with an look on “Late Evening with Seth Meyers.”

Wu’s look additionally comes because the mayor seeks reelection to a second time period, going through, most notably, a problem from longtime philanthropist Josh Kraft. 

“The Each day Present” will air on Comedy Central Tuesday evening.