Retaliating Against Democrats, Trump Says He’s Considering Release Detained Migrants In Sanctuary Cities
President Donald Trump said Friday he is “giving strong” consideration to a plan to bus detained immigrants to so-called sanctuary cities as a way to retaliate against Democrats.
The president said he was weighing the idea because Democrats had blocked his efforts to change the country’s “very dangerous immigration laws.”
“Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only,” the president wrote in a post on Twitter.
The president’s statement came after a former Department of Homeland Security official said the plan, first reported by The Washington Post on Thursday night, was ultimately scrapped when it was determined to be “so illegal.”
A White House official who confirmed the broad outlines of the proposal Friday morning pushed back on the idea that it was meant as retaliation toward political rivals, however, calling that “absolutely ridiculous.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday took a swipe at a Trump White House proposal, calling the half-hatched plan “disrespectful” and “unworthy of the presidency.”
One of the congressional districts identified by the Trump administration was Pelosi’s liberal San Francisco district, according to The Washington Post.
