Is the Trump administration exposing the hypocrisy of its opponents on immigration or using sanctuary cities and illegal immigrants as political performance art?
The Washington Post reported that earlier in the year, the Trump administration had approached Department of Homeland Security officials with the idea of transporting immigrants who entered the country illegally to sanctuary cities.
The scheme was rejected, but over the weekend, Trump raised it anew when he told reporters, "We might as well do what they always say they want. We'll bring the illegal-really, you call them the illegals. I call them the illegals. They came across the border illegally. We'll bring them to sanctuary city areas and let that particular area take care of it."
On Monday morning, Trump was not reading from the same script, tweeting, "Those Illegal Immigrants who can no longer be legally held will be, subject to Homeland Security, given to Sanctuary Cities and States!".
As a practical policy proposal, Trump's musings about busing immigrants to Democratic strongholds like San Francisco or Chicago is ridiculous; it makes no sense to spend money the DHS doesn't have to transport people to sanctuary cities rather than just releasing them where they were initially detained.
According to the Los Angeles Times, in December 2017, actor Martin Sheen "Grabbed the lectern during a City Council meeting and -as if conjuring his inner President Josiah Bartlet from 'The West Wing'-urged the city to become a sanctuary city." The good townspeople wanted to send a message to immigrants that in Donald Trump's America, they were at least still safe in Malibu.
Trump's recent provocation was masked as a simple question: If illegal immigrants are not the threat that he claims, then sending them to sanctuary cities, where they should be welcomed and well-treated, will prove the open-borders advocates right, so why not embrace the experiment?
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/sanctuary-city-theater/
The Washington Post reported that earlier in the year, the Trump administration had approached Department of Homeland Security officials with the idea of transporting immigrants who entered the country illegally to sanctuary cities.
The scheme was rejected, but over the weekend, Trump raised it anew when he told reporters, "We might as well do what they always say they want. We'll bring the illegal-really, you call them the illegals. I call them the illegals. They came across the border illegally. We'll bring them to sanctuary city areas and let that particular area take care of it."
On Monday morning, Trump was not reading from the same script, tweeting, "Those Illegal Immigrants who can no longer be legally held will be, subject to Homeland Security, given to Sanctuary Cities and States!".
As a practical policy proposal, Trump's musings about busing immigrants to Democratic strongholds like San Francisco or Chicago is ridiculous; it makes no sense to spend money the DHS doesn't have to transport people to sanctuary cities rather than just releasing them where they were initially detained.
According to the Los Angeles Times, in December 2017, actor Martin Sheen "Grabbed the lectern during a City Council meeting and -as if conjuring his inner President Josiah Bartlet from 'The West Wing'-urged the city to become a sanctuary city." The good townspeople wanted to send a message to immigrants that in Donald Trump's America, they were at least still safe in Malibu.
Trump's recent provocation was masked as a simple question: If illegal immigrants are not the threat that he claims, then sending them to sanctuary cities, where they should be welcomed and well-treated, will prove the open-borders advocates right, so why not embrace the experiment?
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/sanctuary-city-theater/
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