Editorial: City Hall can’t afford to miss another security lesson

Sanctuary City Boston just gave an inadvertent lesson in the need for border security with a recent “security breach” at City Hall.

While an email from Mayor Michelle Wu’s office described City Hall as “a welcoming building open to the public,” one of the public allegedly took that welcome too far, rifling through office suites and stealing wallets stuffed with cash and credit cards from employees.

Now there are calls to tighten security protocols.

Sound familiar?

Irony aside, one would assume the government building would have tight security as a matter of course. The mayor’s office is there, as well as the City Council and numerous city agencies. None of these should be vulnerable to “rifling.”

And yet, the city stated in an email Tuesday, “Yesterday, an unauthorized member of the p