Rep. Seth Moulton appears to have pulled a Hannah Dugan at the State of the Union. Where the Milwaukee judge helped an undocumented immigrant to escape her courtroom, Moulton reportedly hid Marcelo Gomes DaSilva in his office after he fled the SOTU following a text from DHS calling him out by name as being in the country illegally. In the meantime, new reports raise questions about his possible criminal record.
Gomes da Silva was born in Brazil and moved to Milford at age 6 on a visa. However, when that visa expired, he stayed in the country illegally.
When Moulton announced bringing him to the SOTU with others sought by the government, the DHS objected that “Today, some Democrats in Congress are planning to bring illegal aliens as guests to the State of the Union. Once again, they are putting illegal aliens above the safety of American citizens.”
It then singled out Gomes da Silva as “an illegal alien who has no right to be in our nation. We are committed to enforcing the law and fighting for the arrest, detention, and removal of aliens like him.”
Gomes da Silva then fled the chamber and Moulton hid him in his office, calling him a “great American.” He told the Globe “I can’t believe they still want to chase after me. I’m just disappointed in the ignorance. It’s really inhumane, and there’s a lack of empathy.”
The DHS never suggested that it was seeking to arrest Gomes da Silva in Congress. Indeed, there is no evidence that DHS was actively seeking the arrest of this individual.
In the meantime, the Boston Herald sought to confirm his record and found what it described as troubling.In an update to this story, the Boston Herald did some digging into Gomes da Silva, who, over the summer of 2025, became an activist and celebrity of sorts among Democrats, including Moulton and Gov. Maura Healey, after ICE detained him for several days when they were looking for his father (read the background on that story and why Gomes da Silva was released here).The information the Herald found, while incomplete, is troubling:
The Herald submitted a public records request to the Secretary of State’s Office and the Milford Police Department regarding two reports, one from June and the other from September of 2021, where Marcelo Gomes da Silva was apparently named as the person of interest.
“The Herald sought the police report numbered 21-23101 dated 9/15/2021 featuring Marcelo Gomes da Silva and 1-16254 dated 6/30/21 also featuring the 19-year-old.
Milford Deputy Chief John Sanchioni denied both of those requests, indicating that the police report from June 2021 “involves a sexual assault and juveniles,” and that the report from September 2021 “involves juveniles.” He did not elaborate.”
Moulton’s move to hide Gomes da Silva raises some interesting legal issues. First, members enjoy legislative immunity under the Speech and Debate Clause.
Article I, Section 6, Clause 1 states that “The Senators and Representatives” of Congress “shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their attendance at the Session of their Respective Houses, and in going to and from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.”
This is usually a protection for statements made in Congress. Moreover, the DHS was seeking the undocumented immigrant, not the member himself.
Second, searches of congressional offices have always been problematic. I have criticized past surveillance and searches as undermining the separation of powers. However, those searches targeted members, not fugitives or deportees.
Finally, putting these limitations aside, such controversies are generally left to Congress to police its own ranks. It is not clear whether the House will address the question of using a congressional office to shelter those being sought by the government.
The Mouton move raises the curious issue of sanctuary offices within Congress. It is also unclear whether Moulton supported this individual in his transportation to and from Congress, including the use of staff to facilitate such movements.
Moulton has not responded to the Boston Herald report of police reports connected to his SOTU guest.
Rep. Seth Moulton is guilty of complicity by an accomplice to a crime, if not treason, as a conspiracy with the enemy.
Sure, use the chambers, but never their homes or anywhere else where something personal is on the line. They wouldn’t let this guy within 500 feet of their palaces.
Modern dems are simply pathetic elites who would very much like to stay that way, and they don’t care who they exploit or how to get or stay there. I’d say ‘shameful’, but they are incapable of shame, other than the faux kind, when they get their foot caught in a trap. Impossible to take the modern DNC seriously, and this only compounds that.
Treason has been normaslized since the Brit. Cotrolled US Publishing office covered up, stop putting our Original 13th Amendment in the books. I saw it published in a CO state book decades ago.
Demand the Original 13th Amendment enforced. Lawyers are not a allowed to hold public office.
Key to stoping all treason
A People
Dear Mr. Turley, I am wondering where GEB, Old Fish, Old Man from Kansas and Wise Old Lawyer are at the morning??? They always send in great comments. This congressman was only trying to “one up” the President. I am glad he was found out.
I think if agree with all your IFs (but not sure; use the key that says Enter sometime). But that’s the problem. They are all IFs
This was meant to be a reply to someone else below not a free standing comment
Seems to me that if ICE was seeking to arrest the illegal then the congressman hiding him is a felony (interfering with a federal agent). If thats the case then the Congressman might have some legal liability.
Facts about Moulton:
During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Moulton led one of the first infantry platoons to enter Baghdad. He served a total of four tours of duty in Iraq from 2003 to 2008.[11][18] Moulton took part in the 2003 Battle of Nasiriyah, leading a platoon that cleared a hostile stronghold.
After graduating from Harvard College in 2001 with a bachelor of science in physics, Moulton joined the United States Marine Corps. He served four tours in Iraq and then earned his master’s degrees in business and public administration in a dual program at Harvard. He entered politics in 2014, when he was elected to represent Massachusetts’s 6th congressional district.
In November 2018, Moulton spearheaded an effort to OUST Nancy Pelosi as House Democratic leader.[3] Despite Moulton’s efforts, Pelosi easily won the Democratic nomination for speaker of the house on November 28, 2018, by a 203-to-32 vote of the Democratic caucus. Source: wikipedia.
With all that brainpower military and political credentials, what went wrong with him?
Baystaters drink saltwater, corrodes the brain.
Harvard
Anonymous defends Moulton based on his military career. Anonymous has nothing to say about
Democrats who would not stand to honor a one hundred year old veteran who served in World War
Two. To Moulton every illegal alien is a great American hero even if he raped a child.
The charges of sexual abuse against this man would not have been brought without a complaint by the
child’s parents. If your child came to you and told you that she had been assaulted what would you do
Anonymous? Moulton could have easily checked this man’s record but instead he was trying to make him a poster child. This is a common action by the (MAKASA) Make America Stupid Again cult.
Read the final line? ” what went wrong with him?” That’s not a defense, it a lament. Geeeezzzz……
Covid vaccines
I am very surprised Professor at how poorly you researched this subject. I guess you’ve gone all clickbait too
1. No, ICE is/was not searching for the kid at the State of the Union speech. Implying it was was a stunt by Moulton. ICE already arrested the kid for being here unlawfully a year ago and he is out on bail awaiting immigration/deportation proceedings. Any perfunctory Google would have explained this to you
2. The recent Boston Herald article is clickbait just like yours. Allegedly there are police reports which the police will not release under Massachusetts public information law because the people mentioned in it – allegedly – were minors at the time (2019). The kid who overstayed his visa (multiple times not just when he was 7) was 14-15 in 2019. If he is mentioned in these reports (if they even exist) he may be a juvenile victim… not a perpetrator. Without the report in hand, @bostonherald is totally out of line implying otherwise (I cannot read the article because it’s behind a paywall but I heard the reporter describe it on the radio)
Dennis, good morning. One thing I’d like to point out, Turley writes opinions. Do you know what that means?
So calm, down, take a swig of coffee and just relax.
Good morning, Coward
Opinions based on lies are lies
“(I cannot read the article because it’s behind a paywall but I heard the reporter describe it on the radio)”. Your words Dennis. So how do you know what the facts are?
Part 1. Turley make no claim that the kid was being sought.
Part 2… Turley mentioned that in his opinion piece.
PS. Always read the opinion thoroughly before repeating it contents and mischaracterizing Turleys words.
Your welcome.
I suggest that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) avoid turning Seth Moulton into another Alex Padilla (D-CA). Padilla is the senator who remained inactive until he interrupted a DHS press conference in Los Angeles, after which he suddenly became a prominent Democratic spokesman. This appears to be a new Democratic strategy: allowing more and more party members to speak publicly.
As another example, consider Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who was largely silent as Arizona’s senator until he appeared in that infamous TV ad urging soldiers to disobey orders. Now, he is on television almost every day, delivering some of the most virulent anti-Trump rhetoric.
The country has no need for another “Maryland man” simply “fighting for his constitutional rights,” like Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, as promoted by Senator Chris Van Hollen.
Helping an non-American is not a crime. So Moulton won’t get 15 minutes. And stop making an issue out of a non-issue.
“Helping a non-American is not a crime”? Hate to break it to you, but it is indeed a crime, it violates Federal Immigration Law.
Per AI;
The primary federal statute for hiding, harboring, or shielding an unlawfully present non-citizen from detection is 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii). This law makes it a felony to willfully conceal or harbor an individual, knowing or in reckless disregard of their illegal status.
Department of Justice (.gov)
Key Aspects of the Statute:
Definition: “Harboring” includes any action that tends to substantially facilitate an immigrant’s remaining in the U.S. illegally, such as providing shelter or housing.
Knowledge Requirement:
The perpetrator must know or recklessly disregard the fact that the person is in the country without authorization.
Penalties:
Penalties can include fines, imprisonment for up to 5 years (or more if for commercial gain or if it causes bodily injury/death), and potential seizure of vehicles or properties used.
Moulton, if not shielded by the speech and debate clause, (it does make exception to a felony) could indeed be charged with a violation of Federal Immigration Law.
Question: is Moulton shielded from the law when;
1) the illegal was transported (across states lines btw) to/from the SOTU?
2) did he or an aide(s) transport the illegal? (If it was an aide(s) that could open up the question as to *his/her* culpability in violating the Federal Immigration Law. (The aide(s) is not shielded by the S and D clause)
3) did he or an aide(s) use a government vehicle/Federal property or personal vehicle to transport the illegal, to/from the SOTU?
4) when he obstructed/harbored/shielded the illegal from DHS after the notice that they knew the guest he brought was illegal?
5) when he used his office -federal property- to obstruct/harbor/shield the illegal from DHS?
So if a member of Congress buys a hotel in their home district and uses it to house illegals,…………
Forgot to add: and calls it their district office.
… he gets rich by getting state and federal dollars. Especially in MA.
If it can be shown in court that the member of Congress knew the people in his hotel were illegal aliens, he or she would be in violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1324a (1) (A) (iii): knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
The member of Congress would be harboring an illegal alien.
It took Turley 6 paragraphs to localize the story. Massachusetts. And then only indirectly, referencing the Boston Herald.
“No one is above the law. Except illegal immigrants.” So says every leftwing fascist Democrat.
Every? How many are there? I’m a Dem, but not a leftwing or a fascist. MAGA sue has a shortage of brain power. The midterms are ours. Bye bye MAGA.
Yup, as long as machines, algorithms, foreign allies and Sina run they elections you will stay blue
AND
we will stay blue.
🤣we’ll see what happens in the midterms
Let me see if I can save X the trouble of typing his predictable response.
Something like this will probably appear shortly:
“This entire story is just another manufactured outrage from the right. A member of Congress showing basic humanity to someone who has lived here since childhood is now supposed to be some kind of crime? Meanwhile the same people clutching their pearls about ‘the rule of law’ had no problem cheering when Trump ignored laws, norms, subpoenas, and court orders whenever it suited him.
The real issue isn’t a congressman offering temporary refuge to a young man who has been part of this country most of his life. The real issue is a government obsessed with chasing immigrants while ignoring far more serious misconduct by people in power.
And the hypocrisy is remarkable. Conservatives who spent years defending obstruction, defiance of federal agencies, and outright contempt for legal process suddenly rediscover the sanctity of law when the target is an immigrant.
If compassion is now considered a crime, perhaps the problem isn’t the congressman. Perhaps it’s the politics driving immigration enforcement in the first place.”
There. That should cover the basic talking points.
Now that we’ve heard the predictable argument in advance, we can actually discuss the real issue: whether members of Congress should be using official offices to shield individuals from federal law enforcement.
Geez, olly has a morning hard-on for George.
The real issue is your lack of sanity. And your lack of facts. Like George you make up lies nonstop.
🤣 I admire the efficiency.
You managed to pack insult, projection, and zero evidence into just two sentences. That takes talent.
If you ever stumble across a fact to support your claim, be sure to bring it back with you. Good luck. Bwahahahaha!
Why thank you. Glad to see the comment struck deep… bwahbwahbwah …. do ya wanna bandaid?
What about the hard-on? Still got one?
Yup, compassion= above the law
AND
will you take a second AND your TDS meds and tell us what law PQTUS+++ broke ignored? We will wait…
txvet, apparently you did not notice how I bookended what I wrote in the quote. Without a doubt, X will begin commenting in his most predictable way and I thought it would be a fun exercise to write a comment for him in his voice.
I wasn’t sure I had sufficiently captured his true nature until your comment to me. So thank you for the confirmation. 😉
txvet33, summed it up. You’re wrong. You sure are bent on taking on X, someone, anyone… how about you just take your meds, relax, and go watch porn this morning.
I used to ignore X, but you must be using AI to confabulate whole postings in X style and now I don’t know with what to compare them.
Also you should put a double quote mark at the start of each quoted paragraph so we can understand what part was synthesized.
Great job OLLY. You got his voice 100%. It almost fooled me.
Of course fools are easily fooled.
Fact. Of all the crazies in MA, Moulton is by far the craziest. And proud of his record of aiding criminal illegals.
The Herald sought the police report numbered 21-23101 dated 9/15/2021 featuring Marcelo Gomes da Silva and 21-16254 dated 6/30/21 also featuring the 19-year-old.
Milford Deputy Chief John Sanchioni denied both of those requests, indicating that the police report from June 2021 “involves a sexual assault and juveniles,” and that the report from September 2021 “involves juveniles.” He did not elaborate.
The deputy chief simply wrote: “The records you are requesting are not public records in accordance with M.G.L. c. 4 s. 7 cl. 26 (A). Report 21-23101-OF involves a sexual assault and juveniles. Report 21-16254-OF involves juveniles.”
Typical Massachusetts.
It’s the fact that they are juveniles – if these reports even exist – that are the issue. The 19 year old was not 19 8 years ago
The report sexist. As commented above, the COP refused access.
Those illegals are puppets in a democratic Greek tragedy play.
*The report sexist*? * puppets in a democratic Greek tragedy play*? I don’t understand the first line. As for the *puppet* line. The illegals are just that, *illegals*. Which means they are in the country without authorization. Regardless of when they entered, the law was violated. As one post stated “no one is above the law, except illegal immigrants” I would add; and the Democrats who obstruct, shield, harbor and smuggle them*.
“if these reports even exist*? The reports obviously exist since the Chief Deputy responded as to their inability to be released due to the involvement of juveniles. IF the US Department of Homeland Security wants to find out if the juvenile is a victim or the criminal, they can get a warrant from a Federal Judge to unseal the juvenile reports. IF the juvenile was in fact involved as a perpetrator of the sexual assault, it would be beneficial for the government to have this information to present at the deportation hearing. IF he was involved, we do not need more criminal illegal aliens who were allegedly involved in this type of crime, in the United States. I don’t care what age they were when they *illegally* entered the country. IF they were involved in a crime of that magnitude, they must go! Imn addition , the father is apparently *allegedly* wanted in matters of public safety. If there are police records of arrests, those reports would be beneficial to DHS for use in a deportation hearing for the father of this individual, he can be removed from this country as well.
I think if agree with all your IFs (but not sure; use the key that says Enter sometime).
But that’s the problem. They are all IFs