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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 04:56 PM Mar 2018

Trump: Administration 'looking at' Oakland mayor over immigration warning

Source: Politico




By LOUIS NELSON 03/08/2018 12:53 PM EST

President Donald Trump said Thursday his administration is “looking at” Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California, after she warned her city’s residents last week about an upcoming raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

“What the mayor of Oakland did the other day was a disgrace, where they had close to 1,000 people ready to be gotten, ready to be taken off the streets,” Trump said Thursday during a portion of a White House Cabinet meeting that was open to reporters. “And the mayor of Oakland went out — and she went out and warned them all: 'Scatter.'”

Trump’s criticism included what appeared to be a veiled threat of legal action against the Oakland mayor, whom he blamed for ICE making only around 150 arrests when it had targeted many more undocumented immigrants. The administration has said people with criminal backgrounds were able to escape; Schaaff has said the administration is trying to portray people in the country illegally as criminals.

“She said, 'Get out of here.' And she's telling that to criminals. And it's certainly something that we're looking at with respect to her individually,” Trump said. “What she did is incredible and very dangerous from the standpoint of ICE and border patrol. Very dangerous. She really made law enforcement much more dangerous than it had to be. So we're looking at that situation very carefully.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/08/trump-oakland-mayor-sanctuary-cities-446315

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Trump: Administration 'looking at' Oakland mayor over immigration warning (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP
Doesn't free speech apply to government officials? grumpyduck Mar 2018 #1
Trump is one of the most un-American pos in our country's history rockfordfile Mar 2018 #2
I don't get how folks "fleeing" from police makes it more dangerous for the police. Fred Sanders Mar 2018 #3
They mean exactly The Mouth Mar 2018 #4
ICE can look at my middle finger! Initech Mar 2018 #5

grumpyduck

(6,197 posts)
1. Doesn't free speech apply to government officials?
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 05:01 PM
Mar 2018

Because if it doesn't, the DT and his buddies are in real trouble.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. I don't get how folks "fleeing" from police makes it more dangerous for the police.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 06:07 PM
Mar 2018

Long gone before the law gets there would be far less dangerous, no?

Do words and logic even mean anything to the Deplorables?

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