Sanctuary Cities and States Have Seceded from the Union

American Thinker.com ^ | April 9, 2017 | Fay Voshell

[Kaslin]

New York City seriously contemplated seceding from the Union just before the outbreak of the Civil War. The mayor of the city was Fernando Wood, a rakish, charming, and handsome devil. He put his finger to the wind when southern states began to secede and decided NYC should stand with her sorely afflicted southern cousins.

But veiled in all the rosy political rhetoric was the hard and pragmatic fact that New York was a central hub of the slave trade, inextricably tied to the South’s cotton empire. Money did the real talking. Wood knew that, as he was a crook who had made a fortune selling public offices and offering immigrants citizenship in exchange for votes.

Mayor Wood decided disunion was a “fixed fact” and on January 6, 1861, he proposed New York City declare its independence. Henceforward, it would be called the Free City of Tri-Insula. Wood proclaimed New York City would “make common cause with the South” as a sovereign entity. He added the City could “deny Federal troops the right to march through the city.”

Nothing much seems to have changed since Woods’ era, a time during which Harper’s Weekly, reporting in 1857, declared New York under Wood was “a huge semi-barbarous metropolis… not well-governed nor ill-governed, but simply not governed at all.”

That is how ungovernable NYC liked it then -- and apparently still does now, having declared itself a sanctuary city; and thus, essentially free of following federal and state laws concerning immigration.

[Original Lurker]

I’d wager Satan’s American seed is rooted somewhere
within the junction of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and NY.

[cpdiii]

Except again NYC gives more to the rest of the country in federal taxes than it receives in federal aid every year.

Actually that is correct. They give more in taxes because it is the financial hub of the western world as is London. It is not because of the underlying quasi socialist government of New York. It should also be noted that companies are fleeing New York to lower tax states. New York is slowly dying!

[The Cuban]

But that lays to rest the poor city narrative now doesn’t it?? Yes, yes it does.

[kearnyirish2]

Remember that next time you see cops protecting an abortion mill - they are enforcing federal law.

I’m also finding it hard to believe that the funds the leftist sh!tholes send to Washington aren’t outweighed by all of the SNAP, WIC, federal school lunch program, Section 8 housing vouchers, highway $, college grants, “free” healthcare, etc. wasted on the MILLIONS of non-contributing residents.

[The Cuban]

Your belief doesn’t substitute for facts. Google is your friend. Use it.

[FiddlePig]

[kearnyirish2]

I guess I just believe my lying eyes...