Boston’s sanctuary city status is prompting the Small Business Administration to move out of its regional Causeway Street office and relocate to a “less costly, more accessible location” in an area that “complies with federal immigration law.”
The pending shutdown of the Boston regional location is part of the SBA’s ‘Made in America’ initiative which will include office closures in five other cities where cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is limited.
All four cities represented at Wednesday’s congressional oversight hearing on sanctuary policies – Boston, New York City, Denver and Chicago – will lose SBA offices. Seattle and Atlanta are also included.
A release from the SBA highlighted that the offices will be moved to “less costly, more accessible locations that better serve the small business community and comply with federal immigration law.”
Massachusetts’ other regional office, in Springfield, will remain open and continue to provide funding programs, counseling, federal contracting certifications, and disaster recovery services.
“Over the last four years,” Administrator Kelly Loeffler said in a statement, “the record invasion of illegal aliens has jeopardized both the lives of American citizens and the livelihoods of American small business owners, who have each become victims of Joe Biden’s migrant crime spree.”
“Under President Trump,” she added, “the SBA is committed to putting American citizens first again – starting by ensuring that zero taxpayer dollars go to fund illegal aliens.”
Boston’s SBA office is in the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Federal Building, in the West End, next to the TD Garden. The building had been one of 11 federal buildings in the Bay State that the Trump administration listed as properties that could be sold since they’re “not core to government operations.”
The list that included more than 400 properties in the country was removed from the General Services Administration website as of Wednesday.
The SBA will roll out a new policy “in the coming days” requiring loan applications to include a “citizenship verification provision to ensure only legal, eligible applicants can access programs.”
“Lenders will be required to confirm that applicant businesses are not owned in whole or in part by an illegal alien,” the release states, “consistent with President Trump’s executive order ending the taxpayer subsidization of open borders.”
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