#Sanctuary Cities

[busterballsblog]

President-elect Trump plans to punish 'sanctuary cities' that fail to fo...

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Rachel Leingang at The Guardian:

To hear Donald Trump tell it, America’s cities are in dire shape and in need of a federal intervention. “We’re going to rebuild our cities into beacons of hope, safety and beauty – better than they have ever been before,” he said during a recent speech to the National Rifle Association in what has become a common refrain on the campaign trail. “We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation, Washington DC.” Trump has for years railed against cities, particularly those run by Democratic officials, as hotbeds for crime and moral decay. He called Atlanta a “record setting Murder and Violent Crime War Zone” last year, a similar claim he makes frequently about various cities.

His allies have an idea of how to capitalize on that agenda and make cities in Trump’s image, detailed in the conservative Project 2025: unleash new police forces on cities like Washington DC, withhold federal disaster and emergency grants unless they follow immigration policies like detaining undocumented immigrants and share sensitive data with the federal government for immigration enforcement purposes.

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, an extensive document breaking down each part of the federal government and recommending changes to be made to advance rightwing policy, was created by the Heritage Foundation, with dozens of conservative organizations and prominent names contributing chapters based on their backgrounds. This part of the project is another Republican attempt at a crackdown on so-called “sanctuary” cities, places around the country that don’t cooperate with the federal government on enforcing harsh immigration policies.

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The threat of withholding federal funds

Republicans, cheered on by Trump, have worked to make immigration a key issue in cities across the country by busing migrants from the US-Mexico border inland, to places run by Democrats like New York, DC and Chicago, overwhelming the social safety net in these cities. The idea of using federal funds granted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) to force immigration changes are included in a chapter about the Department of Homeland Security, written by Ken Cuccinelli, Trump’s former deputy secretary of homeland security.

The chapter’s initial recommendation is to dismantle DHS entirely, create a border-focused agency comprised of other immigration-related organizations and farm out the rest of its components to existing agencies (or privatize them, in the case of the Transportation Security Administration). It’s not directly clear whether the aim is to use all Fema funds – including those that help cities and states in the immediate aftermath of an emergency like a tornado or flood – or large grant programs for things like emergency preparedness. One line in the chapter says “post-disaster or nonhumanitarian funding” could be exempt from the immigration policy requirements. The chapter also suggests that cities and states should take on more of the burden of financially responding to disasters.

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One of the conditions Project 2025 suggests is requiring states or localities to share information with the federal government for law and immigration enforcement, and specifies that this would include both department of motor vehicle and voter registration databases. This is of particular interest in many cities because 19 states and Washington DC allow undocumented people to get drivers licenses, the Niskanen Center, a thinktank that delved into the project’s immigration aims, points out. These licenses help with public safety by decreasing the potential for hit-and-runs and increasing work hours, among other benefits, the center writes. If a city or state is forced to choose between issuing licenses and then sharing this information for use by immigration authorities, or accessing emergency funds for their whole population in a crisis, it’ll be tough for them to deny Fema money, said Cecilia Esterline, an immigration research analyst at the Niskanen Center.

Donald Trump’s war on urban cities is part of the wretched far-right Project 2025 plan, including crackdowns on sanctuary cities.

See Also:

The Guardian: What is Project 2025 and what does it have to do with a second Trump term?

[originalleftist]

A reminder, even if you're exhausted with this election:

Check that your ballot is received and counted.

If there's an issue with it, see if you can fix it (cure your ballot).

It may not change the Presidency, but control of the House is still undecided and will be very close.

To say nothing of down ballot state and local races, which can also be very close, and will be the last sanctuaries against the nation-wide imposition of fascism under a Trump regime.

Also its your voice, its your right, and if we're about to lose it, by God don't give it up a moment sooner than you have to.

[culturevulturette]

It's almost like they write and pass these grandiose "sanctuary city" laws with no intent to actually act on any of them. It's almost like it was only ever about virtue signalling.

[dosesofcommonsense]

You’ve brought this upon yourself and your people. Who’s to blame? YOU. Who needs to get fired? YOU.

[simply-ivanka]

Cities and Counties

California: Alameda, Berkeley, Fremont, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco (county and city), San Mateo County, Santa Ana, Santa Clara County, Watsonville.

Colorado: Boulder, Denver

Washington D.C.

Illinois: Chicago and Cook County.

Massachusetts: Amherst, Boston, Cambridge, Concord, Lawrence, Newton, Northampton and Somerville.

Maryland: Howard County, Hyattsville, Prince George’s County, Rockville.

New Jersey: Newark

New York: Albany, New York City, Westchester County.

Pennsylvania: Lancaster, Lehigh County, Northampton County, Philadelphia.

Vermont: Burlington

Washington: King County, Seattle, Walla Walla County.

[diablo1776]

Shots fired..

[gamer2002]

[swiftiesforharris]

Kamala Fact of the Day!

In 2006, as San Francisco's district attorney, Kamala Harris expressed support for the city's sanctuary city policy of not inquiring about immigration status in the process of a criminal investigation, saying it allowed people to come forward as witnesses to crimes when they might not have otherwise. She argued it is important that immigrants be able to talk with law enforcement without fear.

[mightyflamethrower]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Morgan Stephens at Daily Kos:

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is making it clear that her state will not be part of Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan. In an interview with Newsweek on Friday, she vowed to stand firm against the president-elect's proposals, aligning with other Democratic state leaders who are determined to block efforts to send the National Guard to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. [...] Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has referred to Trump’s proposed migrant camps as “concentration camps.” She is also concerned that mass deportations could violate due process, or the constitutional mandate that government officials follow proper legal procedures before depriving an individual of life, liberty, or property, according to the National Constitution Center.

“The problem with that is it leads to abuses,” Mayes said of Trump’s mass deportation plans, and argued that Trump should instead focus on “violent cartel members” inside the U.S. On Tuesday, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker also vowed to resist incoming border czar Tom Homan's threatened deportations, saying he and Trump don't have the authority to proceed with mass deportations.  "We have laws that protect undocumented immigrants, and we're going to follow the law. I'm concerned that the Trump administration and his lackeys aren't," Pritzker said at a press conference. However, He did note some exceptions, though.  "Violent criminals who are undocumented and convicted of violent crime should be deported," Pritzker said. "I do not want them in my state. I don't think they should be in the United States."  Chicago will be the first place targeted for deporting undocumented migrants after Trump is sworn in, according to Homan. Pritzker publicly vowed to protect Illinois residents last month at a press conference. 

Remember Pritzker saying, “You come for my people, you come through me” in the days after the election? Later, he helped spearhead an organization called Governors Safeguarding Democracy, joining with fellow Democrats readying their fight by sharing information and resources.  The incoming Trump administration has also set its sights on California. But the border state, a longtime Trump target, is pushing back against his planned deportations. On Tuesday, Sen. Alex Padilla criticized them as “extremist” during a Judiciary Committee hearing.  [...] As Daily Kos reported last month, Democratic governors have a handful of options to push back against mass deportations, including executive order authority directing states not to intervene. But sheriffs can go outside this sort of sanctuary-city jurisdiction. As governors and other local leaders join together to oppose mass deportations, it’s becoming apparent that states will be the de facto battleground for shaping U.S. immigration policy. 

Happy to see some statewide-level Democrats, including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, have plans to fight the cruel mass deportation policies by the Trump-Miller-Homan trifecta of evil.

[piniatafullofblood]

this might be one of the most important things I’ve posted on here. If you see any of my posts today, see this one.

this is a governmental outreach survey.

If you live in the us, take the survey. Tell them what you think. Show them that we do not stand by the choices our government is making, and that they are doing us a disservice. topics discussed in tags

[culturevulturette]

It's true. Where this is happening, this is exactly what they voted for. It's what "sanctuary city/state" policies are all about.

[tinkerotr]

conceptualizing earning ‘stable’ money has become a very far away thought.

There’s just so much uncertainty in being compensated for your labour/work when you’ve become accustomed proving you’re a production machine at heart in order to be valued and considered for qualifying to receive a fair income for doing said productive work.

People are too entitled to others’ efforts and energy and it drives me mAd!

What do you mean ‘if you really want something then you would find a way’ when there’s a whole society that’s largely in the habit of considering marginalization and micro-aggressions as customary to a certain kind of experience that fails to follow the norm.

A society largely in the habit of considering starvation, homelessness, precarious qualities of life and hostility as an immediate consequence of being a Willful Subject (Sarah Ahmed 2014).