Aljazeera reports on my home town
Aljazeera did a report on my home town: Somerville MA, which is next to Boston and Cambridge. It is also the location of the apartment Obama lived in when he went to Harvard Law School, and also is where the first American flag ever was raised on Jan 1, 1776, by George Washington at the top of Prospect Hill. Somerville is a sanctuary city.
The story reports what our mayor has to say:
In a phone interview, Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone iterated what he has been saying since the election: "We are not going to run away from our fellow human beings, our neighbours, our colleagues ... We are not going to profile based on immigrant status."
In other words, city officials will refuse to cooperate with any upcoming orders to hand over undocumented immigrants for potential deportation - regardless of what that means for the $6m in federal grant money Somerville receives for programmes such as special education, substance abuse programmes and school lunch programmes.
The mayor's office said in late November that the city would "tighten our belts" if Somerville does lose the funding.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/02/american-sanctuary-city-somerville-170208073200604.html
