Posted on 04/13/2019 5:15:31 PM PDT by Mariner
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. mayors said on Friday their cities would welcome illegal immigrants, dismissing President Donald Trump's threats to transport people detained at the border to "sanctuary cities" as illustrating the White House's callous approach to the issue.
Trump confirmed on Twitter that he wanted to transport people detained in his immigration crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border to sanctuary cities, an informal designation for localities that refrain from assisting federal immigration authorities in detaining people living in the country illegally.
Mayors from across the country were quick to respond to Trump's latest portrayal of immigrants and sanctuary cities as threats.
In New York City, where nearly 40 percent of the population are immigrants, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Trump's immigration policy was rooted in cruelty.
"He uses people like pawns," de Blasio said in a statement. "New York City will always be the ultimate city of immigrants the President's empty threats won't change that."
In Philadelphia, known as the city of brotherly love, Mayor Jim Kenney said in a statement that his city "would be prepared to welcome these immigrants just as we have embraced our immigrant communities for decades." He said the White House was demonstrating "the utter contempt that the Trump Administration has for basic human dignity."
The Republican president has made cracking down on illegal and legal immigration a centerpiece of his administration, and has regularly threatened to try to cut federal funding to programs in generally Democratic-leaning sanctuary cities, counties and states.
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Perhaps eventually, but they probably want them to stay around for the census, then scatter them.
California here I come .....
https://oathkeepers.org/2018/01/new-california-tent-city-video-sparks-outrage/
Just watch how aggressively they challenge it in court.
The lib talking points all over the web are:
Its Bullying
Its abuse of power, etc.
Bottom line, they dont want this violence and disease antwhere near THEM, they want it in Texas, Arizona and Florida, to turn them permanently Democrat.
Ask those oficials that want illegals, how many they want to take?
Send them to NAPA, Malibu, the East Hamptons, and Atherton. Watch how fast the big Dem donors demand walls. Around themselves....
The administration needs to identify the richest blue districts within each sanctuary city. Snatch up all available housing units. Cram multiple immigrant families into each unit, at least 5 families per unit.
At 60 persons per bus, that would be 1,600 buses worth, in March. It remains to be seen how many more bus loads this April...
No youre wrong they want them. This is their ticket to one party rule. No one can keep the illegals in the cities.
You are right. Trump f*d up on this. He needs to back down from this fast.
Trump is just a momentary speed bump on the way to Venezuela.
Imagine dumping 100,000+ Central Americans on Vermont. "Here's the diversity you white liberals love so much!"
Good point.
Good good! Stand up and identify yourselves.
Make sure your citizens know who brought trouble down on them.
The sanctuary status will be a big motivation for them to stay there. Especially now that Trump has ICE doing its job outside of them.
WELLLL, ALRIGHTY THEN!
Looks like we have LIFTOFF!
Fire up the buses and start programming those GPS's!
Better to saturate areas that are already controlled by the proglibs than pollute the red areas where the normal American Citizens live.
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Funny. They say they want them but diss Trump for threatening to send them to their city. So funny.
Please do it, President Trump.
Please.
Dump em in Manhattan.
There’s subways to all the other boroughs except hours for them to branch out into
No one can keep the illegals in the cities.
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That is exactly my personal concern. I live in the country, but we are bordered on the west (Minnesota) by a dense wall of sanctuary counties.
However, the housing stock here is limited and expensive, since it mostly comes with acreage. Few rentals in most towns. The available rentals in various villages are owned by farmers who use them for legal guest workers and they are regularly inspected by Federal agencies.
Still, this could play into the hands of the progs.
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