Boston City Council member Sharon Durkan has walked back her deluded criticism of President Trump’s border enforcer Tom Homan, following a social media post where she ridiculed his employment history. According to Fox News, Durkan had questioned Homan’s qualifications to comment on Boston’s public safety, writing that he spent his career “policing a town smaller than a Fenway Park crowd.”

“Laughable that someone who spent their career policing a town smaller than a Fenway Park crowd thinks they can lecture Boston on public safety,” the councilwoman’s post read. “Commissioner Michael Cox serves with distinction and earns trust with integrity.”

According to Fox News, Durkan “raised eyebrows after mocking Homan’s brief stint as a police officer in West Carthage, New York, implying that he was unqualified to enforce President Donald Trump’s border policy in Boston because of that experience. But Homan’s time in the small-town department only lasted from 1983 to 1984, before he became a Border Patrol agent and eventually worked his way through the ranks of the Obama and Trump administrations.”

Durkan later acknowledged Homan’s extensive career within Border Patrol and ICE, clarifying, “Yes, I understand that Tom Homan spent his career as a federal agent within Border Patrol & ICE, but that’s a world away from the realities of policing a major city,” adding that “His background is in immigration enforcement, not community policing – where trust and accountability are key.”

The initial criticism followed Homan’s remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where he criticized Boston’s sanctuary policies and specifically called out Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox. Homan cited instances of released criminal migrants, including child rapists, due to the city’s policies of not honoring ICE detainers. Homan said in his speech that he had looked at the numbers just that morning and stopped when he got to nine child rapists who he said Boston released back out onto the streets.

“I’m coming to Boston, and I’m bringing hell with me,” Homan said at CPAC.

“You’re not a police commissioner,” Homan addressed Cox. “Take that badge off your chest. Put it in the desk drawer. Because you became a politician. You forgot what it’s like to be a cop.”

Commissioner Cox has defended the city’s policy, stating that the Boston Police Department adheres to Boston and Massachusetts law, which does not require them to enforce civil immigration detainers.

“The Boston Police Department has pretty defined rules and we abide by the law here in the state,” Cox said on a segment of WCVB’s “On the Record” show. “We don’t enforce civil detainers regarding federal immigration law. It’s defined here in the state, and that’s just how it works.”

The debate comes amid increased attention on immigration enforcement in Massachusetts, following several recent arrests of criminal migrants. During one arrest someone was heard shouting “thank you” as a violent criminal was finally taken off the streets of the city.