Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Giving Tax Dollars Exclusively to Immigrants and Non-Citizens to Train in Political Activism

by Mike LaChance Sep. 28, 2026 9:00 pm



Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks to a reporter after signing an executive order restricting ICE activity. Credit: WHDH screenshot

Boston’s leftist mayor Michelle Wu is under fire for using tax dollars to train immigrants and non-citizens to be political activists.

The program is exclusive, and does not permit American citizens to enroll, which does not even sound legal.

What is the end goal here? To teach recent arrivals to America to protest the country that took them in?

FOX News reports:

Blue city funds immigrant activist program with taxpayer dollars, critics say it ‘shuts citizens out’
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration is offering taxpayer-funded scholarships for an activist program while limiting participation to immigrants, including non-U.S. citizens, a requirement that has drawn criticism online.

The Immigrants Lead Boston program, run by the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, is designed for “emerging leaders” interested in advocating for Boston’s immigrant communities.

Participants meet city officials and receive training aimed at helping them engage with local government and organize within their communities during the 10-week program.

Critics have seized on both the taxpayer funding and the eligibility requirements, arguing that U.S.-born residents are excluded from a city-backed leadership program whose participants can receive a $575 scholarship.

“That is not charity. That is a political pipeline built to shut citizens out of their own city,” one user wrote on X.

This is outrageous.

Libs of TikTok
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has a scholarship program for people to learn to become activists and only illegals and foreigners are allowed to apply. No American-born citizens. How is this legal?? @AAGDhillon



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No legal status required: Boston is paying immigrants $575 to learn political organizing, and US-born residents can't apply

https://massdailynews.com/2026/09/26...ntent=headline

5:32 AM · Sep 28, 2026

More from Mass Daily News:

Boston is paying immigrants $575 apiece to complete a 10-week course in political organizing, with no legal-status check on applicants and native-born US Bostonians barred from the program entirely, according to the city’s own website.

Immigrants Lead Boston, run by the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, is now in its 7th cohort under Mayor Michelle Wu.

The program launched under former Mayor Marty Walsh in fall 2020 and has been continued and expanded by the Wu administration.

The boston.gov program page states applicants may apply “regardless of their immigration status.”

That opens the door to green-card holders, DACA recipients, refugees, asylum-seekers, and undocumented residents.

See a video report below:

DeVory Darkins

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STUNNING: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is handing out taxpayer-funded stipends to immigrants regardless of legal status

Unbelievable.

"And I've asked 100 Democrats give me one downside on a secure border. They can. This is by design. This is their plan."



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8:32 PM · Sep 28, 2026

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