{"id":138604,"date":"2019-04-11T23:43:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T05:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138604"},"modified":"2019-04-11T23:43:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T05:43:36","slug":"trump-wanted-to-punish-sanctuary-cities-by-dumping-released-immigrant-detainees-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/trump-wanted-to-punish-sanctuary-cities-by-dumping-released-immigrant-detainees-there.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump wanted to punish &#8220;sanctuary cities&#8221; by dumping released immigrant detainees there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Administration twice approached ICE to suggest that, hey, when they had asylum seekers or illegal immigrants who needed to be released while waiting their hearings, they ship them off to &#8220;to small- and mid-sized sanctuary cities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that the plan was intended to alleviate a shortage of detention space but also served to send a message to Democrats. The attempt at political retribution raised alarm within ICE, with a top official responding that it was rife with budgetary and liability concerns, and noting that \u201cthere are PR risks as well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;PR risks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After the White House pressed again in February, ICE\u2019s legal department rejected the idea as inappropriate and rebuffed the administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So for all the people suggesting that ICE needs to be abolished and reconstituted as a new agency, their legal department, at least, should be kept intact, or at least given a second chance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_138605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138605\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stephen-miller.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-138605\" title=\"stephen miller\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stephen-miller-650x439.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stephen-miller-650x439.png 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stephen-miller-150x101.png 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stephen-miller-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stephen-miller-768x519.png 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stephen-miller.png 1188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Miller, White House advisor and apparent mastermind behind this scheme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Consider what this means.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Trump Administration regularly suggests that illegal immigrants are a significant danger due to all the rapists and murderers and drug lords in their numbers. Also, maybe, Middle-Eastern terrorists.<\/li>\n<li>The Trump Administration decided to target specific locations (with specific partisan leanings against him) with these dangerous individuals, to &#8220;send a message.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That message would be, presumably, one of blood and suffering and death. Because murderers, rapists, and drug lords (and maybe terrorists).<\/p>\n<p>Not to put too fine a point on it, but <em>the President of the United States and his Administration sought to have political opponents &#8212; and ordinary residents of areas that had voted for those political opponents &#8212; killed, raped, etc<\/em>., <em>to send a &#8220;message.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That actually happens to be a definition of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Now the reality is that there is no observable correlation between immigrant, even illegal immigrant, populations and violent crime rates. And if there were, one would expect those &#8220;sanctuary cities&#8221; &#8212; where civil authorities do not go beyond legal requirements to cooperate with federal immigration authorities or to administer federal immigration law with local resources &#8212; to already be rife with rape and murder. Which they are not.<\/p>\n<p>But if we are to take Trump&#8217;s rhetoric at all seriously, he truly believes that these immigrant hordes are highly dangerous. And he wanted to specifically target particular communities he feels are defying him with this dangerous population.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently that&#8217;s the new normal in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not just rumor or anonymous sources. The specific proposals have been admitted to by both the White House and DHS.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A White House official and a spokesman for DHS sent nearly identical statements to The Post on Thursday, indicating that the proposal is no longer under consideration.\u00a0\u201cThis was just a suggestion that was floated and rejected, which ended any further discussion,\u201d the White House statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, well, I guess that makes it all better.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, one might argue that Trump, or his xenophobic advisor Stephen Miller, apparently the author of this policy proposal, that they don&#8217;t actually think these people are that much of a danger, but that they simply want to overwhelm social services and other civic institutions in those locations &#8212; in Democratic districts, and\/or in &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; cities.<\/p>\n<p>Is that level of political retribution acceptable, either?<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?\u00a0<\/em> <a href=\"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=.c43c904c2f7f\">White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently public safety political retribution is now how the federal government rolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,1071],"tags":[1196,938,1077],"class_list":["post-138604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homeland-security","category-trump","tag-immigration","tag-terrorism","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stephen-miller.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132900,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/22\/tweetizen-trump-2017-02-22-fake-crowds.html","url_meta":{"origin":138604,"position":0},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8212; 2017-02-22 &quot;Fake Crowds&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 22-Feb-17 7:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure, after yesterday's paucity of commentary, you were saving up those creative juices for something. Let's go see!===\u25ba 'Americans overwhelmingly oppose sanctuary cities' [1]So that one was from your Social Media Minions, Donald (though I assume it had your approval). It included a link to an article about a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Trump%2Btweet%2Bprotesters.JPGimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Trump%2Btweet%2Bprotesters.JPGimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Trump%2Btweet%2Bprotesters.JPGimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":133347,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/25\/a-federal-judge-mostly-blocks-trumps-sanctuary-city-order.html","url_meta":{"origin":138604,"position":1},"title":"A federal judge mostly blocks Trump&#039;s &quot;sanctuary city&quot; order","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Apr-17 4:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And, most charmingly, it's largely Donald Trump's fault.As far as I can tell from the article, the basic issue the judge had was that the Executive Order in question provides a vague threat, on criteria that are not well defined, with potentially significant harm to the cities and counties involved\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133194,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/01\/our-kafkaesque-immigration-situation.html","url_meta":{"origin":138604,"position":2},"title":"Our Kafkaesque immigration situation","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Apr-17 3:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"See, this is a reason why so-called \"Sanctuary Cities\" do what they do (which is: not pay attention to vague requests to hold onto those swarthy-skinned types who are probably illegals, dontchaknow). A gent who is a naturalized citizen who was serving a two week stint in county jail on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132668,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/27\/tweetizen-trump-2017-01-27-enjoy-strong-better-now.html","url_meta":{"origin":138604,"position":3},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2017-01-27 &quot;Enjoy! Strong! Better! NOW!&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Jan-17 4:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"What sorts of things are you twittering on about today, Donald?===\u25ba Will be interviewed by @SeanHannity on @FoxNews at 10:00pm tonight. Enjoy! [1]\"Enjoy!\" again? What, this is some sort of delicious meal you are graciously setting down in front of us? Should we all say \"Thank you, sir, may I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BatB%2Bskeptical%2Beyebrow.gifimgmax%3D660.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":136601,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/30\/a-tweet-1000875582052167680.html","url_meta":{"origin":138604,"position":4},"title":"Those Missing Immigrant Children","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-May-18 7:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/18965459\/status\/1000875582052167680 RT @Marmel: Fifteen hundred missing children. The only way the Trump administration could care less is if it had been a school shooting. #W\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133954,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/protecting-our-innocent-children-against-those-savage-inhuman-others.html","url_meta":{"origin":138604,"position":5},"title":"Protecting our innocent children against those savage, inhuman Others","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jul-17 5:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow.I knew Trump had gone off to Ohio for another of his quasi-campaign rallies where he gets to whip up the crowd and get them to cheer his name and boost his ego. He tweeted about it enthusiastically, after all. 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