Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh offered up City Hall as shelter of last resort for residents threatened by President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

Saying "you are safe in Boston," Walsh doubled down on the city's pro-immigration stance during a Wednesday press conference in City Hall.

"If people want to live here, they'll live here," Walsh said. The remarks are the mayor's strongest comments to date in opposition to the newly elected president.

He added, "They can use my office. They can use any office in this building."

Walsh's remarks came as Trump signed executive orders ushering in a crackdown on illegal immigration. He called the president's moves "un-American" and "a direct attack on Boston's people, Boston's strength and Boston's values."



Sen. Edward Markey echoed Walsh's assessment of the new Trump policies in a similar statement Wednesday, while Attorney General Maura Healey called the executive order an "irresponsible attempt to coerce our communities into conducting his mass deportations."