Counter-Resistance To Sanctuary Cities Forms In Boston

Counter-Resistance To Sanctuary Cities Forms In Boston

WEST ROXBURY — On the same day that House Democrats on Beacon Hill ushered through a bill aimed at halting any participation from the state's inmate population to help build President Donald Trump's proposed border wall, a resistance of a different sort took place across town.

Wednesday night's forum in West Roxbury, held by the recently-formed Bostonians Against Sanctuary Cities, drew its fair share of protesters on the streets — as inside the neighborhood's Elks Lodge, a group of immigration rule-of-law advocates participated in a rare Massachusetts-centric speaking forum.