Excerpt: "Among a number of actions, one will include recruiting 1,000
people to disrupt immigration raids in the next two months."
Thousands of people gathered at the Wisconsin Capitol Thursday for 'A Day
Without Latinos' rally to protest legislation they say targets immigrants in
February of 2016. (photo: Mark Hoffman)
Sanctuary Cities at Risk Under Trump - but That Won't Stop Them
By teleSUR
11 November 16
"We have to see what happens, but we're not going to change our DNA because
of politics," said San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.
ndocumented and unafraid!"
These were the defiant chants of protesters outside of San Francisco's
Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(DHS-ICE) office.
"(But) there is fear. Tremendous fear in the community," said immigration
attorney Luis Angel Reyes Savalza.
That's because among the multifarious pledges U.S. president-elect Donald
Trump has made that will adversely affect the most marginalized communities,
the threat of slashed funding to sanctuary cities looms in particular.
That's severed funding to nearly 300 cities and counties around the nation
that block local law enforcement from targeting undocumented immigrants. The
policies range from prohibiting asking questions about legal status, to
disregarding DHS-ICE requests to keep immigrants in jail until they're taken
into federal custody.
While Republicans have long vouched to cut this stream of federal funding,
they have failed to do so in Congress. But under the looming specter of a
Trump presidency, that funding remains directly threatened, with the
incoming GOP leader announcing last month he would cut it in his first 100
days in office.
But that's not going to stop the sanctuary city movement and the municipal
officials that back their cause.
The two largest cities in the nation, Los Angeles and New York, vocalized
their commitment to keeping their cities sanctuary cities.
"We are not going to sacrifice a half million people who live among us, who
are part of our community," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news
conference on Thursday. "We are not going to tear families apart."
De Blasio said Trump's threat to withhold funds from sanctuary cities was
"dangerous."
Across the country, Los Angeles officials echoed similar sentiments.
"We comply with federal immigration agencies, but insist that detainer
requests be handled constitutionally," said spokeswoman Connie Llanos. "It
is Mayor Garcetti's sincere hope that no president would violate those
principles, the very foundation of our nation, by taking punitive action on
cities that are simply protecting the wellbeing of residents."
Both cities are one of the few that do not hold undocumented inmates in jail
at the request of ICE, a practice that emerged during the Obama
administration, where so-called detainer requests have been used to target
undocumented immigrants convicted of criminal acts, especially violent ones.
The Obama era still stands as one that has deported the most people ever
from the United States.
The city of Philadelphia has also vowed to protect undocumented people. Led
by the city's New Sanctuary Movement (NSM), the group released a statement
in response to Trump's victory, announcing invigorated efforts to combat
Trump's impending policing and criminalization of immigration communities.
"This is terrifying. Trump's campaign of hate, racism and exclusion took the
White House. The backlash of white voters was harsh and strong, and Trump's
rhetoric now has the power of the White House behind it," they write on
their website. "Let us ground ourselves deeply in our traditions and get
organized for the struggle ahead."
Among a number of actions, one will include recruiting 1,000 people to
disrupt immigration raids in the next two months.
Mayor Kenney affirmed the movement's call.
Philadelphia will remain a sanctuary city despite a threat to its future
status from Trump, he said Thursday.
"First of all, we've changed the name from 'sanctuary city' to 'the Fourth
Amendment city,'" Kenney said. "We respect and live up to the Fourth
Amendment, which means you can't be held against your will without a warrant
from the court signed by a judge. So, yeah, we will continue to be a Fourth
Amendment city abiding by the Constitution."
And still, across the nation, Seattle's mayor has spoken out to reserve the
city's status - even of they lose federal funding.
"These are our neighbors, and we will continue to support our neighbors,"
Mayor Murray said. "We can't allow ourselves to be divided and sorted out.
That's not America."
The mayor said Trump has "demonstrated outright misogyny, demonstrated
xenophobia and homophobia, nationalism, racism and authoritarian
tendencies."
In addressing the crowd gathered inside City Hall on Wednesday, Murray
recalled his own arduous struggle as a state lawmaker working to legalize
gay marriage in Washington.
Further south, it was San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's statement that was
perhaps most forcefully resounding.
"Being a sanctuary city is in our DNA," he tweeted Wednesday. "San Francisco
will never be anything other than a sanctuary city."
Leaders have to be ready, he pressed. That's why he is organizing a meeting
with various department heads, to strategize for the upcoming months.
Oakland and San Jose, the Bay Area's two other major cities, have also
affirmed they will continue to be sanctuary cities.
"Any change in administration, we have to be very focused on what we're
doing, but also we've enjoyed funding from different administrations that
didn't agree with us on things like sanctuary city," Lee said. "We have to
see what happens, but we're not going to change our DNA because of
politics."
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Sanctuary Cities at Risk Under Trump - but That Won't Stop Them
By teleSUR
11 November 16
"We have to see what happens, but we're not going to change our DNA because
of politics," said San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.
ndocumented and unafraid!"
These were the defiant chants of protesters outside of San Francisco's
Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(DHS-ICE) office.
"(But) there is fear. Tremendous fear in the community," said immigration
attorney Luis Angel Reyes Savalza.
That's because among the multifarious pledges U.S. president-elect Donald
Trump has made that will adversely affect the most marginalized communities,
the threat of slashed funding to sanctuary cities looms in particular.
That's severed funding to nearly 300 cities and counties around the nation
that block local law enforcement from targeting undocumented immigrants. The
policies range from prohibiting asking questions about legal status, to
disregarding DHS-ICE requests to keep immigrants in jail until they're taken
into federal custody.
While Republicans have long vouched to cut this stream of federal funding,
they have failed to do so in Congress. But under the looming specter of a
Trump presidency, that funding remains directly threatened, with the
incoming GOP leader announcing last month he would cut it in his first 100
days in office.
But that's not going to stop the sanctuary city movement and the municipal
officials that back their cause.
The two largest cities in the nation, Los Angeles and New York, vocalized
their commitment to keeping their cities sanctuary cities.
"We are not going to sacrifice a half million people who live among us, who
are part of our community," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news
conference on Thursday. "We are not going to tear families apart."
De Blasio said Trump's threat to withhold funds from sanctuary cities was
"dangerous."
Across the country, Los Angeles officials echoed similar sentiments.
"We comply with federal immigration agencies, but insist that detainer
requests be handled constitutionally," said spokeswoman Connie Llanos. "It
is Mayor Garcetti's sincere hope that no president would violate those
principles, the very foundation of our nation, by taking punitive action on
cities that are simply protecting the wellbeing of residents."
Both cities are one of the few that do not hold undocumented inmates in jail
at the request of ICE, a practice that emerged during the Obama
administration, where so-called detainer requests have been used to target
undocumented immigrants convicted of criminal acts, especially violent ones.
The Obama era still stands as one that has deported the most people ever
from the United States.
The city of Philadelphia has also vowed to protect undocumented people. Led
by the city's New Sanctuary Movement (NSM), the group released a statement
in response to Trump's victory, announcing invigorated efforts to combat
Trump's impending policing and criminalization of immigration communities.
"This is terrifying. Trump's campaign of hate, racism and exclusion took the
White House. The backlash of white voters was harsh and strong, and Trump's
rhetoric now has the power of the White House behind it," they write on
their website. "Let us ground ourselves deeply in our traditions and get
organized for the struggle ahead."
Among a number of actions, one will include recruiting 1,000 people to
disrupt immigration raids in the next two months.
Mayor Kenney affirmed the movement's call.
Philadelphia will remain a sanctuary city despite a threat to its future
status from Trump, he said Thursday.
"First of all, we've changed the name from 'sanctuary city' to 'the Fourth
Amendment city,'" Kenney said. "We respect and live up to the Fourth
Amendment, which means you can't be held against your will without a warrant
from the court signed by a judge. So, yeah, we will continue to be a Fourth
Amendment city abiding by the Constitution."
And still, across the nation, Seattle's mayor has spoken out to reserve the
city's status - even of they lose federal funding.
"These are our neighbors, and we will continue to support our neighbors,"
Mayor Murray said. "We can't allow ourselves to be divided and sorted out.
That's not America."
The mayor said Trump has "demonstrated outright misogyny, demonstrated
xenophobia and homophobia, nationalism, racism and authoritarian
tendencies."
In addressing the crowd gathered inside City Hall on Wednesday, Murray
recalled his own arduous struggle as a state lawmaker working to legalize
gay marriage in Washington.
Further south, it was San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's statement that was
perhaps most forcefully resounding.
"Being a sanctuary city is in our DNA," he tweeted Wednesday. "San Francisco
will never be anything other than a sanctuary city."
Leaders have to be ready, he pressed. That's why he is organizing a meeting
with various department heads, to strategize for the upcoming months.
Oakland and San Jose, the Bay Area's two other major cities, have also
affirmed they will continue to be sanctuary cities.
"Any change in administration, we have to be very focused on what we're
doing, but also we've enjoyed funding from different administrations that
didn't agree with us on things like sanctuary city," Lee said. "We have to
see what happens, but we're not going to change our DNA because of
politics."
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