About a week after suggesting immigration authorities would ramp up their efforts to find and arrest people in the country illegally, particularly those in sanctuary cities such as Boston, several media outlets have reported U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have started “surging” through Massachusetts.

A Boston Herald reporter accompanying an ICE official described the scene of a Saturday morning ICE detainment in Everett, one of more than 100 from throughout the state — including in Lowell, Fall River and Springfield — since the surge began Thursday, the official told the Herald .

“This is the result of the sanctuary policies here within the commonwealth, specifically like the city of Boston,” Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston Deputy Field Office Director Da

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