{"id":16038,"date":"2025-01-09T22:23:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16038"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:23:59","slug":"how-trump-could-crack-down-on-blue-cities-and-states-to-enact-mass-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16038","title":{"rendered":"How Trump could crack down on blue cities and states to enact mass deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;During Trump\u2019s first term, sanctuary cities refused to allow local law enforcement to share information with federal immigration agents or hand over immigrants in their custody. This time around, many are planning to do the same, even if doing so draws them into a fight with the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s so-called border czar Tom Homan, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and a named contributor to its Project 2025 manifesto, has indicated the incoming administration plans to make sanctuary jurisdictions targets for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/380582\/mass-deportations-trump-history-alien-enemies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mass deportations<\/a>.\u201d Homan said recently he hopes that local law enforcement will cooperate with requests from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hand over undocumented immigrants already in their custody, especially when they pose a public safety threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat mayor or governor doesn\u2019t want public safety threats out of their communities?\u201d he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_8aa7f940-ab56-11ef-be93-7f4765c1a0d0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told the Center Square<\/a>. \u201cTheir No. 1 responsibility is to protect their communities. That\u2019s exactly what we are going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Democratic leaders, however, have made it clear that they will not accept federal government overreach on deportations and that they are preparing to challenge Trump\u2019s immigration policies in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not looking for a fight from the Trump administration, but if he attacks our progress, we\u2019ll fight back,\u201d California Attorney General Rob Bonta told Vox. \u201cImmigrants are such a critical part of who we are \u2026 who we will be.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In his first term, Trump\u2019s crackdown on sanctuary jurisdictions took two forms: attempting to withhold federal funding from them and challenging their policies in court.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/392201\/sanctuary-cities-trump-california-mass-deportations\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/392201\/sanctuary-cities-trump-california-mass-deportations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;During Trump\u2019s first term, sanctuary cities refused to allow local law enforcement to share information with federal immigration agents or hand over immigrants in their custody. This time around, many are planning to do the same, even if doing so draws them into a fight with the second Trump administration.<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s so-called border czar Tom Homan, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and a named contributor to its Project 2025 manifesto, has indicated the incoming administration plans to make sanctuary jurisdictions targets for \u201cmass deportations.\u201d Homan said recently he hopes that local law enforcement will cooperate with requests from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hand over undocumented immigrants already in their custody, especially when they pose a public safety threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat mayor or governor doesn\u2019t want public safety threats out of their communities?\u201d he told the Center Square. \u201cTheir No. 1 responsibility is to protect their communities. That\u2019s exactly what we are going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most Democratic leaders, however, have made it clear that they will not accept federal government overreach on deportations and that they are preparing to challenge Trump\u2019s immigration policies in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not looking for a fight from the Trump administration, but if he attacks our progress, we\u2019ll fight back,\u201d California Attorney General Rob Bonta told Vox. \u201cImmigrants are such a critical part of who we are \u2026 who we will be.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In his first term, Trump\u2019s crackdown on sanctuary jurisdictions took two forms: attempting to withhold federal funding from them and challenging their policies in court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/392201\/sanctuary-cities-trump-california-mass-deportations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[961,2108,838,221,709,26,25,759,170],"class_list":["post-16038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cities","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-donald-trump","tag-federalism","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration","tag-states","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16039,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions\/16039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}