U.S. mayors decry Trump sanctuary city threat, 'prepared to welcome' migrants

 

FILE PHOTO: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers remarks at The United States Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington, U.S., January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo

 

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 centrepiece of his administration, and has regularly threatened to try to cut federal funding to programs in generally Democratic-leaning sanctuary cities, counties and states.

 

"Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only," Trump wrote on Twitter, confirming a Washington Post report.

 

The mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, responded by saying on Twitter: "These are people, not pawns, Mr. President."

 

At least one governor, New Mexico's Michelle Lujan Grisham, weighed in, calling the plan "absurd, sad and all too characteristic of the president — not to mention indicative of a complete and cruel indifference to the plight of migrant families."

 

The mayors of Oakland, California, and Takoma Park, Maryland, voiced similar reactions.

 

Trump's latest move on immigration comes days after U.S. officials said they arrested or denied entry to over 103,000 people along the border with Mexico in March, more than twice as many as the same period last year.

 

"I am shocked but not surprised that once again this president is playing a cynical game with people's lives in order to score political points," Jesse Arreguin, the mayor of Berkeley, California, said in a statement. "Rather than supporting a real pathway to citizenship for the millions of immigrants in this country, he is fanning the flames of division."

 

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Blah, blah, blah...the Dems will not help ease the flood of illegal migrants at the border...sanctuary cities defy the law and either harbor or fail to release to ICE detained criminals...

 

Good...you want to disrupt this country...you deal with the mass of unvetted people who need immediate food, shelter, medical attention and processed...????  

1 hour ago, Puchaiyank said:

Blah, blah, blah...the Dems will not help ease the flood of illegal migrants at the border...sanctuary cities defy the law and either harbor or fail to release to ICE detained criminals...

 

Good...you want to disrupt this country...you deal with the mass of unvetted people who need immediate food, shelter, medical attention and processed...????  

 

It doesn't matter for the most part this is where they will head anyway. Good luck to California.

1 hour ago, Puchaiyank said:

Blah, blah, blah...the Dems will not help ease the flood of illegal migrants at the border...sanctuary cities defy the law and either harbor or fail to release to ICE detained criminals...

 

Good...you want to disrupt this country...you deal with the mass of unvetted people who need immediate food, shelter, medical attention and processed...????  

No, sanctuary cities are not defying the law. It was conservative justices on the Supreme Court who decided that the Federal government cannot compel state employees to work for them. That decision was based on a principle called Federaism. Something conservative profess to cherish. Until they don't.

52 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

It doesn't matter for the most part this is where they will head anyway. Good luck to California.

You got some figures to back up your contention that California is the destination of most of these people? Or are you just bloviating?

2 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

You got some figures to back up your contention that California is the destination of most of these people? Or are you just bloviating?

As one who owns multiple homes and property in Callie, I don't need pretty graphs to tell the future. It was bad before and will only get worse. How about yourself, any interests in Callie other than disagreeing with all opponents to illegals. 

The sooner they build the wall the better. I recently visited Texas and then went on to China. In Texas, I saw many many Mexicans. Then I visited China where they have had a wall for 1000's of years. I never saw one Mexican in China. So see Democrats. Walls do work. 

On 4/13/2019 at 8:07 AM, EVENKEEL said:

As one who owns multiple homes and property in Callie, I don't need pretty graphs to tell the future. It was bad before and will only get worse. How about yourself, any interests in Callie other than disagreeing with all opponents to illegals. 

Yes, the situation in California is dire:

California Must Be Doing Something Right in Trump’s America

Just about every policy Donald Trump imposes to make his America great is opposed by the world's fifth-largest economy. That would be California, which is growing faster and outperforming the U.S. in job growth, manufacturing, personal income, corporate profits and the total return of its bonds. The most populous U.S. state, with 39.5 million people, supplanted the U.K. as No. 5 in the world with an equivalent gross domestic product of more than $2.7 trillion, increasing $127 billion last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-29/trump-vs-california-state-s-economy-vastly-outpaces-u-s

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11 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

You got some figures to back up your contention that California is the destination of most of these people? Or are you just bloviating?

 

Well being that many of them are stopped along the border and don't have the means to travel further I would say the fact they will go to California is a reasonably educated guess.

6 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

As one who owns multiple homes and property in Callie, I don't need pretty graphs to tell the future. It was bad before and will only get worse. How about yourself, any interests in Callie other than disagreeing with all opponents to illegals. 

 

Higher taxes for you. 

On 4/13/2019 at 8:10 AM, bristolboy said:

Yes, the situation in California is dire:

California Must Be Doing Something Right in Trump’s America

Just about every policy Donald Trump imposes to make his America great is opposed by the world's fifth-largest economy. That would be California, which is growing faster and outperforming the U.S. in job growth, manufacturing, personal income, corporate profits and the total return of its bonds. The most populous U.S. state, with 39.5 million people, supplanted the U.K. as No. 5 in the world with an equivalent gross domestic product of more than $2.7 trillion, increasing $127 billion last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-29/trump-vs-california-state-s-economy-vastly-outpaces-u-s

 

California on any given day is one step away from bankruptcy. They claim to have some money saved but one wildfire or one quake they are in deep crap.

1 minute ago, Cryingdick said:

 

Well being that many of them are stopped along the border and don't have the means to travel further I would say the fact they will go to California is a reasonably educated guess.

I didn't realize that the entire border in the south was between Mexico and California. Also, I didn't realize that undocumented aliens stay in the state they cross over into. All those meatpacking plants, dairies, restaurants, etc where they work are all in California, too? No wonder California's economy is so big. It turns out most of the USA consists of it. 

1 minute ago, Cryingdick said:

 

California on any given day is one step away from bankruptcy. They claim to have some money saved but one wildfire or one quake they are in deep crap.

And once again the poster-with-no-evidence strikes. Like that President you emulate, you have a positive gift for inventing "facts" to support your prejudices.

3 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

I didn't realize that the entire border in the south was between Mexico and California. Also, I didn't realize that undocumented aliens stay in the state they cross over into. All those meatpacking plants, dairies, restaurants, etc where they work are all in California, too? No wonder California's economy is so big. It turns out most of the USA consists of it. 

 

I hope that Cali enjoys all the new workers that don't pay tax while the smart money leaves because SALT taxes are no longer deductible. Cali was enjoying massive federal subsidies until past tax season. 

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

"He uses people like pawns," de Blasio said in a statement.

 

And Trump is himself a pawn, being used by Stephen Miller to float abhorrent and ghoulish ideas.  If Trump had followed through with this, he would have been the one responsible for escorting immigrants into our cities.  Make up your mind, Trump... immigrants in or out?

12 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Yes, the situation in California is dire:

California Must Be Doing Something Right in Trump’s America

Just about every policy Donald Trump imposes to make his America great is opposed by the world's fifth-largest economy. That would be California, which is growing faster and outperforming the U.S. in job growth, manufacturing, personal income, corporate profits and the total return of its bonds. The most populous U.S. state, with 39.5 million people, supplanted the U.K. as No. 5 in the world with an equivalent gross domestic product of more than $2.7 trillion, increasing $127 billion last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-29/trump-vs-california-state-s-economy-vastly-outpaces-u-s

Yep, keep the cheap labor coming.

3 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

I hope that Cali enjoys all the new workers that don't pay tax

 

How do you suppose that somebody works and avoids having his employer withhold payroll taxes?

1 minute ago, attrayant said:

 

How do you suppose that somebody works and avoids having his employer withhold payroll taxes?

 

By the virtue of being an "undocumented immigrant" lol Illegals don't pay tax that is one reason why they are so "competitive"

7 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

I hope that Cali enjoys all the new workers that don't pay tax while the smart money leaves because SALT taxes are no longer deductible. Cali was enjoying massive federal subsidies until past tax season. 

Research reviewed by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office indicates that between 50 percent and 75 percent of unauthorized immigrants pay federal, state, and local taxes. Illegal immigrants are estimated to pay in about $7 billion per year into Social Security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_illegal_immigrants_in_the_United_States

4 minutes ago, attrayant said:

How do you suppose that somebody works and avoids having his employer withhold payroll taxes?

Paid in cash

Just now, bristolboy said:

Research reviewed by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office indicates that between 50 percent and 75 percent of unauthorized immigrants pay federal, state, and local taxes. Illegal immigrants are estimated to pay in about $7 billion per year into Social Security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_illegal_immigrants_in_the_United_States

 

Sure they do... they work for less than minimum wage and pay taxes like that.

4 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

Sure they do... they work for less than minimum wage and pay taxes like that.

Still making things up.

6 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Research reviewed by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office indicates that between 50 percent and 75 percent of unauthorized immigrants pay federal, state, and local taxes. Illegal immigrants are estimated to pay in about $7 billion per year into Social Security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_illegal_immigrants_in_the_United_States

So not only are they illegal, they also commit identity fraud as well. 

 

Pure genius. Presumably when SF, Chicago and the other sanctuary cities are inundated with 10s of millions of illegals the inhabitants of said cities will quickly come to embrace Trumps border policies. 

1 minute ago, elmrfudd said:

So not only are they illegal, they also commit identity fraud as well. 

 

Yes, they are cheating the USA out of negative dollars.

You would think that liberal orgs would donate money to help these people become a part of their communities. Because lets face it they are going to become unwelcome in many places really quickly.

27 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

As one who owns multiple homes and property in Callie, I don't need pretty graphs to tell the future. It was bad before and will only get worse. How about yourself, any interests in Callie other than disagreeing with all opponents to illegals. 

I own property in sandiego I know a lot of Latinos from all over South America went to school in Mexico as a kid I’ve worked with people of Mexican hearitage I’ve always found them to be hard working family oriented kinda religious on the norm salt of the earth types just the kind of people I want on my team that being said I’m not for open borders we need leadership that can work together to fix it

3 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

You would think that liberal orgs would donate money to help these people become a part of their communities. Because lets face it they are going to become unwelcome in many places really quickly.

Oddly, immigrants do become part of communities.

 

Ask your American friends and colleagues when their families first arrived in America.