Featured Contributor | January 25, 2018 10:45AM
Liberal pro-sanctuary city mayors conducted a boycott of a scheduled meeting with President Trump, and were immediately called out for their stunt.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors saw over 100 mayors show up, while just a few – those who are so emotionally distraught over the Trump Administration’s effort to crackdown on illegal immigration – decided not to go.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was at the forefront of the boycott, a sad attempt at getting the far-left base to pay attention to their feeble efforts to stop the President.
“I will NOT be attending today’s meeting at the White House,” de Blasio proudly boasted, citing Trump’s supposed renewed “racist assault on our immigrant communities.”
Actually, comrade, cracking down on illegal immigration DOES make Americans safer and PROMOTES America’s core values of law and order.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joined in on the boycott saying, “I cannot in good conscience as President of the United States Conference of Mayors go to a meeting under false pretenses.”
“Unfortunately, the Trump administration’s decision to threaten mayors and demonize immigrants yet again – and use cities as political props in the process – has made this meeting untenable,” he added.
The Democrat mayors are up in arms over the fact that the Department of Justice announced that it will subpoena up to 23 ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions if they don’t offer proof they are complying federal immigration law.
President Trump wasted no time in blasting those mayors who decided not to join the meeting, saying they, like their entire party, have chosen to side with illegal immigrants over law-abiding Americans.
“My administration is committed to protecting innocent Americans,” Trump told those in attendance, “and the mayors who choose to boycott this event put the needs of criminal illegal immigrants over law-abiding Americans.”
That’s not a joke, NBC.
President Trump proceeded to call out sanctuary cities, defining them as “the best friend of gangs and cartels like MS-13.”
Don’t forget Kate Steinle’s murderer. You know, the way liberals who back sanctuary cities and/or states have. They were a best friend to him as well.
Still, as the President pointed out, most mayors showed up to the event.
“Let me tell you the vast majority of people showed up … Because the vast majority believe in safety of your cities,” he said.
President Donald Trump’s administration is not backing down against the unlawful actions of so-called sanctuary cities. On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions threatened to subpoena 23 sanctuary cities across the U.S. if they fail to provide documents showing whether local law enforcement officers are sharing information with federal immigration authorities.
According to a Department of Justice press release, all 23 cities were “previously contacted” by DOJ over concerns about “laws, policies, or practices” that could be in violation of federal law promoting “information sharing related to immigration enforcement.”
Sessions adds, “Protecting criminal aliens from federal immigration authorities defies common sense and undermines the rule of law. We have seen too many examples of the threat to public safety represented by jurisdictions that actively thwart the federal government’s immigration enforcement—enough is enough.”