Mayor Michelle Wu and other Boston city officials have 21 days to respond to the lawsuit filed by the federal government against the city’s anti-ICE participation statute, the Boston Trust Act.

“A lawsuit has been filed against you,” a summons sent Friday to the Boston Police Department, BPD Commissioner Michael Cox, Wu, and the city itself states. “Within 21 days after service of this summons on you … you must serve on the plaintiff an answer to the attached complaint or a motion under Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.”

The lawsuit, announced by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday, says the southern border was “overrun by cartels, criminal gangs, known terrorists, human traffickers, smugglers, unvetted military-age males from foreign adversaries, and illicit narco

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