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Outspoken Trump critic and California Senate President pro tem Kevin de León (D) issued a statement following Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement that sanctuary cities will risk losing federal funding if they fail to comply with the nation’s immigration laws.
De León called the move “blackmail” and said that President Trump’s “inhumane and counterproductive mass-deportation” of illegal immigrants is “unconstitutional and will fail.”
“The announcement today by Attorney General Jeff Sessions is nothing short of blackmail,” the statement reads. “When it comes to immigrants and sanctuary counties and cities, the Attorney General and the President are stuck on alternative facts.”
“They are wrong about immigrants and wrong about what makes our communities safer. Data shows that sanctuary counties are not only safer than comparable non-sanctuary jurisdictions but are also better off economically,” he claims.
De León continues, “Instead of making us safer, the Trump administration is spreading fear and promoting race-based scapegoating. Their gun-to-the-head method to force resistant cities and counties to participate in Trump’s inhumane and counterproductive mass-deportation is unconstitutional and will fail.”
He also tweeted on Monday that Attorney General Sessions and President Trump “only want to cause fear and stoke racial resentment.”
The Democratic senator for the Golden State’s 24th District is pushing legislation to make California a “sanctuary state.”
Doing so would put state and local jurisdictions at risk of losing vital federal funding and grants needed for law enforcement programs.
Recent data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows that the policies of sanctuary cities interfere with efforts to deport criminal illegal aliens and, therefore, threaten public safety.
A report released on Mar. 24 shows that in one week, officers discovered 206 instances in which criminal aliens were released despite requests by ICE to detain them – including 51 charged or convicted of assault, 40 for DUI, 30 for domestic violence, 19 for robbery, burglary, or grand theft auto, 17 for drugs, and 14 for rape, sexual assault, or other sex offenses, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
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