Mayors vow to keep ‘sanctuary’ status as Trump vows crackdown on immigrants

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The nation’s three largest cities are vowing to maintain their ‘sanctuary’ status in defiance of President-elect Donald Trump’s call to deport up to 3 million undocumented ‘criminal’ immigrants who came here illegally.

The chief of the Los Angeles Police Department said Monday the department had no plans of departing from its policy of not stopping people based on suspicion of their immigration status.  

The mayors of LA and New York have said they maintain to keep their cities’ ‘sanctuary’ status, and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel declared that the Windy City will ‘always be a sanctuary city.’

All three cities are heavily Democratic and have large immigrant populations.

‘To be clear about what Chicago is, it always will be a sanctuary city,’ Emanuel said on Monday.

After campaigning on a crackdown on illegal immigration, Trump told CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ in an episode airing Sunday that he would focus on ‘criminal’ aliens first.

‘What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,’ Trump said. ‘But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.’

Trump has listed immigration as one of his immediate priorities, although House Speaker Paul Ryan told CNN on Sunday: ‘We are not planning on erecting a deportation force. Donald Trump is not planning on that.’

In 2014, the U.S. deported fewer than 200,000 criminal aliens.

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3 thoughts on “Mayors vow to keep ‘sanctuary’ status as Trump vows crackdown on immigrants

  1. That is the following crimes:
    – Obstruction of Justice
    – Giving aid and comfort to an invading enemy force.
    – High Treason
    – Conspiracy to commit treason against the the American People

    That is plenty of charges to get them all HUNG!!!

  2. Wow! Not only are all of these Commie mayors committing treason by trying to ban guns, they are committing treason by allowing illegal immigrants to stay here.

    When can we hang these traitors? I mean do we really need a written invitation from them?

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