A PAC ad distorted Rep. Seth Moulton’s vote on a 2025 resolution as if it shows he is pro-ICE. The resolution’s aim was to condemn an antisemitic attack. Moulton has since called to abolish ICE.
“Moulton voted with Republicans to thank ICE for protecting our homeland. He thanked ICE as they were terrorizing our communities and killed citizens in broad daylight.”Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, a Massachusetts high school student who came to the U.S. from Brazil as a child and was detained by ICE May 31, 2025, speaks to reporters as Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., looks on.
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., voted for a June 2025 resolution that included one sentence expressing gratitude for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But the resolution’s main purpose was to condemn a violent, antisemitic attack in Colorado. Moulton voted for another resolution the same month that condemned antisemitic attacks and did not mention ICE.
A PAC backing incumbent U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., portrayed leading challenger Rep. Seth Moulton as supportive of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We looked at Moulton’s X account and official press releases and news reports that month and did not find any comments by Moulton about that ICE arrest. The ad also showed January footage of federal agents publicly killing Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Pretti was a U.S. citizen and intensive care unit nurse whom the Trump administration officials a domestic terrorist. Pretti’s death came less than three weeks after a federal agent shot another U.S. citizen, Renee Good, in Minneapolis.
The PAC supports incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Moulton’s rival in the Sept. 1 Democratic primary. Unions representing health care workers, teachers and environmental leaders formed the PAC. The ad distorts Moulton’s support for the agency by plucking out a one-phrase mention in a 417-word resolution and omits that Moulton has repeatedly criticized the agency.
In June 2025, the House voted on two resolutions condemning an antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colorado. Moulton supported both, but the ad cites only one that said the House 'expresses gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, for protecting the homeland.' June 1. More than a dozen people were injured and one later died. Soliman, an Egyptian national who overstayed a tourist visa, remains in custody awaiting A cyclist passes by the flag of Israel, taped on a hydrant on the east end of the Pearl Street Mall, after a June 1, 2025, attack near the courthouse in Boulder, Colorado.
The resolution called on federal officials to vet whether visa applicants have espoused antisemitic terrorism. It said failing to remove people who overstay visas is dangerous. a liberal pro-Israel advocacy group, that criticized the version that thanked ICE, calling it 'exactly the kind of resolution you’d expect when MAGA hardliners hijack concerns about antisemitism to push their longstanding anti-immigrant, anti-democracy agenda.' he supported its overarching purpose of condemning antisemitic terror.
'There rarely exists a bill or resolution that I vote for because I agree with every single word in it,' his June 11, 2025, statement said. 'I will continue to loudly oppose Trump’s agenda — especially his desires to weaponize ICE and create a culture of fear in immigrant communities across the country — while loudly condemning antisemitism,' Moulton wrote. 'Democrats can — and need — to do both.'
In response to our questions, Moulton’s campaign cited his votes and statements against Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda going back a decade. to learn how people were organizing against what he called 'state-sponsored terror' by ICE agents and other federal immigration officials. He has also of Marcelo Gomes da Silva, a Milford, Massachusetts, high school student and Brazilian national who arrived in the U.S. as a young child and was detained by ICE on his way to volleyball practice. Moulton invited Gomes da Silva to be his guest at the State of the Union address.
he would vote to fund ICE only if conditions were met, such as banning agents’ routine use of masks and requiring the agency to publicly report all stops of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. He introduced to redirect ICE funding from the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act to Affordable Care Act tax credits. 'We have no obligation to give taxpayer dollars to an agency that is using your hard-earned money to enable state-sponsored violence against our own people,' he said in March, An ad said that Moulton 'voted with Republicans to thank ICE for protecting our homeland. He thanked ICE as they were terrorizing our communities and then killed citizens in broad daylight.'
The kernel of truth here is that Moulton voted for a 2025 resolution that included one sentence expressing gratitude for ICE, but the main purpose of the resolution was to condemn an antisemitic attack. The resolution came one month after a Brazilian woman was taken into ICE custody in Worcester, Massachusetts, but before federal immigration agents publicly killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota. Moulton was one of 75 Democrats to vote in favor of the resolution, and he also voted for a separate resolution the same month that similarly condemned antisemitic violence and did not mention ICE. The ad creates a misleading impression that Moulton supports ICE even as it killed U.S. citizens. His record reflects the opposite. He has called for abolishing the agency or overhauling it.
H.Res.481 - Condemning the rise in ideologically motivated attacks on Jewish individuals in the United States, including the recent violent assault in Boulder, Colorado, and reaffirming the House of Representatives commitment to combating antisemitism and politically motivated violence Email interview, Aidan Curran, Rep. Seth Moulton office spokesperson, April 9, 2026
“Moulton voted with Republicans to thank ICE for protecting our homeland. He thanked ICE as they were terrorizing our communities and killed citizens in broad daylight.” The SAVE America Act “requires everyone to re-register to vote in person and your driver’s license, REAL ID, or military ID aren’t even good enough.” 'Right now we're focused on Minneapolis because that's where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws.' Protesters against the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota are conducting “fake protests done by agitators and professional insurrectionists. …They're professional troublemakers.” A letter sent to postal service employees about working during emergencies such as civil unrest is a sign that President Donald Trump will impose martial law. “By federal law, if you sign someone up for Medicaid, you also give them the right to vote. … This is political patronage at the expense of Medicaid.” “Moulton voted with Republicans to thank ICE for protecting our homeland. He thanked ICE as they were terrorizing our communities and killed citizens in broad daylight.”
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