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Trump targets sanctuary cities: Who will be the first fool?
American Thinker ^ | 11 Apr, 2025 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/12/2025 4:47:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber

After DOGE, the border shutdown, and the tariff and trade debacle, it's pretty obvious that President Trump doesn't mess around.

So now he's announced that sanctuary cities are a target for federal defunding:

No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Criminals, not the Victims. They are disgracing our Country, and are being mocked all over the World. Working on papers to withhold all Federal Funding for any City or State that allows these Death Traps to exist!!!

Donald Trump Truth…

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) April 10, 2025

It makes perfect sense. Why should cities and states shielding illegally present criminals from repatriation to their homelands get so much as a dime of federal funding from other taxpayers?

If they can't obey a sensible law about getting rid of people who have committed crimes against Americans, what crimes are they themselves up to? We can see it in the massive scandals engulfing cities and states such as San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, and San Diego, along with the entire state of California, to name but just a few.

SNIP

If these cities don't back down, they're going to get it in the teeth. That will be a wakeup call, to encourage the others. One by one, I expect to see a lot of them fall into line, get their funding, and go on being wokester blue cities without that disastrous sanctuary status. But there will always be a few idiots among cities who decide they'd rather learn the hard way that Trump means what he says.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: illegalinvasion; sanctuarycities; trump; winning

1 posted on 04/12/2025 4:47:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Who will be the first? Then watch how they cry.


2 posted on 04/12/2025 4:48:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
"and are being mocked all over the World"

Except Europe. Those fools are inviting anyone to come in and rape their citizens.
3 posted on 04/12/2025 4:50:57 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MtnClimber

Denver should be in the top 5.


4 posted on 04/12/2025 4:54:17 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: dynachrome

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco was among the first US cities to establish a sanctuary law in 1989


5 posted on 04/12/2025 4:58:44 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: MtnClimber

Which judge will be first to hold it up?


6 posted on 04/12/2025 5:00:13 AM PDT by 9YearLurker (\)
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To: albie

Dunno when Denver did, but the idiot mayor said he would lead a pack of housewives to oppose ICE. He should be arrested.


7 posted on 04/12/2025 5:01:19 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: MtnClimber

Bullies all turn into crybabies when called into account or experiencing the consequences of their actions.


8 posted on 04/12/2025 5:12:26 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: MtnClimber

I vote for Seattle. Payback for all the elections they stole when I lived in the eastern part of the state.


9 posted on 04/12/2025 5:14:44 AM PDT by waredbird (Rrect. )
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To: MtnClimber

Please Boston! Even the leftist are sick of Mayor Wu and stoopid Maura.


10 posted on 04/12/2025 5:17:25 AM PDT by small farm girl
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To: 9YearLurker
Which judge will be first to hold it up?

No doubt they all have black flag wearers to protect them.

11 posted on 04/12/2025 5:21:19 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: MtnClimber

I was checking that pesky constitution thingie and there it was, in black and white...
The power to regulate immigration is specifically granted to the fed.
That means the states cannot, in any shape or form, regulate immigration. This is why Texas kept getting shot down in the courts.
If the states have no say, then cities have even less say.
Declaring themselves sanctuary is a violation of the constitution.

Period.

Now, the states control their cities.
Make the state pay and watch things change...


12 posted on 04/12/2025 6:00:13 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO!! The end.)
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To: MtnClimber

They should all be first; at least 5 per day. Pre-dawn raids and arrests; no strongly-worded letters. And add the release of the Epstein Island visitor list to the opening day festivities. That’s way past due.


13 posted on 04/12/2025 6:09:35 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: dynachrome

Nah...Oregon...it is a “sanctuary State!” The witches who run this state are abominations.


14 posted on 04/12/2025 7:35:08 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: MtnClimber

I’d nominate Boston.


15 posted on 04/12/2025 7:43:21 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: MtnClimber

Do Colorado first please.


16 posted on 04/12/2025 8:15:53 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: MtnClimber

So many criminals in government...so little time.


17 posted on 04/12/2025 8:24:45 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MtnClimber
Hope it's Los Angeles, California. San Francisco, second.

Illegals are costing us billions upon billions in services - and of course the idiot governor gives them everything, driver's licenses, free medical care paid for by us taxpayers, in-state tuition, scholarships and more.

However, Trump just added this loophole:

78-CF6-A00-D7-CB-436-E-914-A-21-D1528-ABB04

Giving the pro-illegal pols an excuse to call ALL illegals "necessary to California's economy."

I had such high hopes of ridding this state...

18 posted on 04/12/2025 8:56:26 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: MtnClimber

Please make it Illinois.

Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee need a smackdown.

L


19 posted on 04/12/2025 8:57:37 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: MtnClimber

Who will be the first? Then watch how they cry, watch how they judge shop


20 posted on 04/12/2025 1:05:22 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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