Trump slams Democratic mayors for boycotting meeting over ‘sanctuary’ dispute

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Trump slams Democratic mayors for boycotting meeting over ‘sanctuary’ dispute
They ‘put the needs of criminal, illegal immigrants over law-abiding America’
Washington Times, Jan 24, 2018, Dave Boyer

President Trump slammed Democratic mayors, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who boycotted a meeting with him at the White House Wednesday in a protest over the administration’s crackdown on “sanctuary” cities for illegal immigrants.

“The mayors who choose to boycott this event have put the needs of criminal, illegal immigrants over law-abiding Americans,” Mr. Trump said. “So let me tell you, the vast majority of people showed up. Because the vast majority believe in safety for your city.”

About 100 people attended the meeting, but some Democratic mayors skipped it in the wake of a new Justice Department warning that cities harboring illegal immigrants could lose federal funding. Mr. Trump called the move “a critical legal step to hold accountable sanctuary cities that violate federal law and free criminal aliens back into our communities.

“We can’t have that,” the president said. “It would be very easy to go the other way, but we can’t have it. We want a safe country, and it’s getting safer all the time. My administration is committed to protecting innocent Americans.”


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