BOSTON — The Boston Police Department says it received and ignored 12 federal requests to detain suspected illegal immigrants last year under the city's sanctuary-city law.
Every year, the BPD is tasked with putting out a report on how well it followed the city’s Trust Act, an ordinance that forbids city agencies from cooperating with certain requests from federal immigration-enforcement officials.
According to the report, filed with the City Council on Monday, the city cops received 12 requests throughout the year. For each of them — little information is given besides the precinct it went to and the date of the ask — the police department wrote, “It was not acted upon per the Boston Trust Ordinance.”
