White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes

[MelissaB]

Unbelievable story: White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes

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White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes

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.

White House officials first broached the plan in a Nov. 16 email, asking officials at several agencies whether members of the caravan could be arrested at the border and then bused “to small- and mid-sized sanctuary cities,” places where local authorities have refused to hand over illegal immigrants for deportation.

More: 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?utm_term=.56c9c9f9a795

[MelissaB]

1. Stephen fucking Miller

Senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller discussed the proposal with ICE, according to two DHS officials. Matthew Albence, who is ICE’s acting deputy director, immediately questioned the proposal in November and later circulated the idea within his agency when it resurfaced in February, seeking the legal review that ultimately doomed the proposal. Miller and Albence declined to comment Thursday.

Miller’s name did not appear on any of the documents reviewed by The Post. But as White House senior adviser on immigration policy, officials at ICE understood that he was pressing the plan.

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“It was basically an idea that Miller wanted that nobody else wanted to carry out,” said one congressional investigator who has spoken to one of the whistleblowers. “What happened here is that Stephen Miller called people at ICE, said if they’re going to cut funding you’ve got to make sure you’re releasing people in Pelosi’s district and other congressional districts.” The investigator spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect the whistleblower.

[machoneman]

2. Limbo....how low can they go?

Endless. Last level of Dante's inferno.

[procon]

3. Trump thinks the leadership in sanctuary cities can be

forced into compliance to avoid the cost of paying to house immigrant families. Did he forget that he already tried to cut off federal funds to sanctuary cities for not kowtowing to his monstrous treatment of immigrants? The governments of those cities were not deterred by money then -- the court has since restored funding -- and they would not be swayed from helping immigrants if Trump proceeded to dump them as part of his revenge against progressive states.

[UTUSN]

4. The repulsiveness of SHITLER is bottomless

[Wounded Bear]

5. I thought they were already doing this...

[yellowcanine]

8. They are. WP needs to get on the story about ICE

dumping people at church shelters in places like San Antonio.

[mopinko]

6. good. bring em.

plenty of room for them in chicago.

[question everything]

7. So pathetic, so vindictive, so lacking of self esteem

nothing new, though

[moondust]

9. And if they escape

those Sanctuary Cities he can commission slave patrols to round them up and escort them back to their plantation...er...designated holding area.

[Boomerproud]

10. No Maggie it is NOT an unbelievable story.

You can damned well bet the house that the WH wants the base to hear this and fistbump each other.
It's all about hatred of liberals

[UTUSN]

11. After denials all day by others SHITLER's saying he'll do it.