Seattle’s Socialist Mayor to Illegals: ‘This Is Your City’
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson
Neil Munro9 Jan 2026353
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Seattle’s new socialist mayor is opening the city’s gates to migrants and promising massive resistance against President Donald Trump’s popular enforcement of federal immigration law.
“My message to our immigrant neighbors: This is your city, you should be safe here, and I’m determined to make it that way,” Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson declared on January 8.
Her comment set the stage for a West Coast version of the Democrats’ confrontation with federal enforcement of federal law in Minneapolis.
Trump’s federal enforcement of federal laws is popular.
Legal and illegal migrants are a huge economic burden on ordinary Americans, partly because they drive down wages, push up rents, and reduce corporate investment in productivity. In December, Axios reported:
The Seattle metro area has seen one of the sharpest drops in online job postings nationwide, according to jobs site Indeed.
Why it matters: The labor market is slowing, particularly for white-collar professionals in tech-heavy cities …
Zoom in: As of late October, Seattle-area job listings on Indeed were down 35% from February 2020.
Many — not all — migrants also commit many crimes, further burdening Americans and deterring investment by companies.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/01/09/seattles-socialist-mayor-to-illegals-this-is-your-city/
