by Jeff Childers
Over the weekend, the New York Post ran a hope-filled story headlined, “Trump vows to ‘end all sanctuary cities in America,’ boost law enforcement in regions that don’t cooperate with ICE.” You would think a Trump threat to punish sanctuary cities would make corporate media headlines, but no. They are terrified of this issue.
At a weekend rally in North Carolina, President Trump promised to end the migrant crisis. He told the large crowd of supporters that:
“Today, I am announcing a new plan to end all sanctuary cities in North Carolina and all across our country,” the Republican presidential nominee told a crowd of 10,000 at Aero Center Wilmington in North Carolina.
“I will ask Congress to pass a law outlawing sanctuary cities nationwide, and we will bring down the full weight of the federal government on any jurisdiction that refuses to cooperate” with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, he added.
“As soon as I take office I will surge federal law enforcement to every city that is failing — which is a lot of them — to turn over criminal aliens, and we will hunt down and capture every single gang member, drug dealer, rapist, murderer and migrant criminal that is being illegally harbored,” vowed Trump.
It wouldn’t be unprecedented. During the Great Depression, the U.S. deported vast numbers of Mexican nationals and migrants from other countries in a campaign often called the “Mexican Repatriation.” It was not so much a formal policy as a series of mass deportations and ‘repatriation drives’ between 1929 and 1939, encouraged by economic hardship and stubbornly high levels of unemployment.
The stated goal was to reduce job competition for U.S. citizens by removing foreign-born laborers (mostly Mexican immigrants). Around 1 to 2 million people were sent back to Mexico. Although there is debate over this point, some historians estimate that up to 40% were naturalized citizens. The collection of programs were carried out by local, state, and federal governments through a combination of both coercive and voluntary incentives.
So it can be done.
The Mayors and City Councils of Sanctary Cities should be held liable and resposible for all crimes commited by illegal aliens
Actually, aiding and abetting illegal immigration, which is the very business of sanctuary cities, is already illegal. But, destroying the sanctuaries is mandatory for the deportation effort.
Deportation can be amazingly easy. Once the sanctuary is denied, all that is necessary is ending all the government subsidies of illegal immigrants. It is expensive to live in the US and this is especially true in what became sanctuary cities. Take away the subsidies and millions will self-deport.
Then we are left with the criminals, which will no longer have any sanctuary, either. When that happens, we will find that illegal immigrant crime is far greater than we’ve been made aware.
The fact that we would need a new LAW to force leftist cities to follow EXISTING law is a clear sign of what is REALLY wrong with this country.
I started jr. high when Ike did OPERATION WETBACK. Deported about 4%of the 1953 population.
For “working” Americans OPERATION WETBACK was a giant success. 4 of the next 6 budgets had a surplus Resulting in inflation being negative; deflation. Working Americans got a series of TAX FREe PAY HIKES! .
eg. In 1952 $1.00 bought 3.3 lbs of coffee; in 1960 $1.00 bought 4 lbs!
For the Biden/Bush folk OPERATION WETBACK was “inhumane’. They had to pay much more for; Cooks, drivers, gardeners maids, …
Bush lied in the ’15 debate. He said it could not be done; then, if we did do it it would drive up the deficit creating inflation. Bush lied! I have first hand proof! All my friends were both happier and more wealthy in 1960 than we were in 1953!
Stop all Federal Funding to any sanctuary State or City, Let them pay for all the illegals they love!
Time to stop America from becoming a 3rd World Nation get us out of the United Nations