• WH proposed releasing detained immigrants into sanctuary cities to punish Dems
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/white-house-proposed-releasing-immigrant-detainees-in-sanctuary-cities-targeting-political-foes/2019/04/11/72839bc8-5c68-11e9-9625-01d48d50ef75_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6aa10310e8e8 White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of “sanctuary cities” to retaliate against President Trump’s political adversaries, according to Department of Homeland Security officials and email messages reviewed by The Washington Post. Trump administration officials have proposed transporting detained immigrants to sanctuary cities at least twice in the past six months — once in November, as a migrant caravan approached the U.S. southern border, and again in February, amid a standoff with Democrats over funding for Trump’s border wall. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco was among those the White House wanted to target, according to DHS officials. The administration also considered releasing detainees in other Democratic strongholds. The attempt at political retribution raised alarm within ICE, with a top official responding that it was rife with budgetary and liability concerns, and noting that “there are PR risks as well.” After the White House pressed again in February, ICE’s legal department rejected the idea as inappropriate and rebuffed the administration.
there are no words for just how offensively petty and childish these pieces of shit prove themselves to be on a daily hourly basis
As if they don't do that already.
Let's be real and admit Trump wants the "deranged killers" ICE detains to murder Democrats.
It would be absolutely poetic if this were to happen and cause dems and lefties to skyrocket in polls, but reality is rarely so kind. “there are PR risks as well.” When has the Trump admin ever cared about bad PR that they couldn't spin?
Absolute petulent children.
So...basically giving the immigrants what they want to own the libs?
Can you fucking imagine if thousands of migrants were dumped in the middle of fucking Center City Philadelphia? With the open knowledge that the President did this? First of all, imagine what all the migrants would do, then imagine the fucking backlash from everyone who lives in the city.
Can we start calling him a Communist now? This is basically what Cuba does/did.
nah he's a fascist willing to cause large amounts of damage to prove a point like a misbehaving kindergartener
Literally punishing people who voted for the "other side". Trump is actively dividing this country.
He's a traitor and should hang
The best part about this is that it isn't a punishment. Undocumented workers commit almost no crime because the penalty for doing so is often deportation. They take on jobs that virtually nobody wants. They make use of almost no government services, because again fears of deportation. In spite of utilizing very few government services, they do generally pay taxes. In fact they pay disproportionate amounts of taxes. Companies that employ the workers are generally not penalized heavily for doing so, but failing to withhold taxes from their checks is a very different matter. You don't screw the IRS out of taxes. So, like everyone else, taxes are withheld from their paychecks and sent to the government. Except they can't actually collect their tax returns courtesy of the whole "undocumented" thing. So they pay taxes, do the shit jobs, and commit almost no crime. I'm sorry, where is the part where they are some horrible punishment?
because brown people bad
I seriously wonder if the future republican party after trump will try to emulate the way he did things since it's worked so well for him in getting pretty much all the support he could ever need.
Because people don't believe they don't use government resources. You're forgetting the default mindset that anti-immigration people have: just become a citizen. Can't? Tough. Go back to your country. Your country sucks? Not my responsibility. My taxes are paying for your kid to go to school, and you're using services my tax dollars to to.
Do it, since I bet majority of them did nothing wrong other than coming here illegally.
I was thinking more along the lines of them thinking “get these people out of here, go back where you came from” without any of them blaming Trump. tbh I think they’d believe that the Democrats were the ones doing it.
Imagine suggesting something so bad ICE stops you
Oop, sorry for misinterpreting what kind of outrage you meant, then.
Other than this being implemented as a form of punishment, this is possibly one of the few instances where I’m not really seeing a lot of downsides to his suggestion?
extremely cool how Trump is running the presidency like a mafia don
See, that's mostly when an immigrant can get "settled in". Hundreds of sick, starving, exhausted, terrified people--most of whom aren't fluent in English and have no job prospects-- being dumped in any city would cause an immediate crisis as homeless shelters buckle under the added strain. Then, because they're starving, they may end up rioting. And then Trump gets to declare victory over those awful Demonrats, who allowed those bad hombres to ruin their precious sanctuary cities. And he uses it to totally justify a new battery of human rights atrocities against immigrants.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116742280919044096 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116742282286440448 So he confirmed it....
Because the Right is putting in as much effort as possible to make this seem normal.
Isn’t that already what’s happening regardless (except for the rioting part)?
They're being released in border towns right now. Sure, maybe it's an issue, but this is just adding a significant extra cost to the gov't by busing them across the country just to spite political opponents and spark racial tensions without a care for the immigrants' overall well-being in the process.
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