“We’ll see what happens,” said Boston Mayor Marty Walsh during his appearance on MSNBC last night discussing the executive order calling to cut off federal funding to sanctuary cities.
Here is the link to the entire list of all the sanctuary cities in the United States.
Below we have statements from the Mayors of 25 sanctuary cities in the Cities for Action coalition. Also, here’s the statement released yesterday from Cities for Action on the President’s Executive Actions (the aggressive order against sanctuary cities):
“Austin is one of the safest cities in the country partly because we listen to our police chief and our sheriff, and they tell us that the voluntary and warrantless ICE detainer program would make us less safe. Withholding money from cities that do not comply with this voluntary program asks cities how much money they’d take to sacrifice their safety, and our safety is not for sale.”
As a nation, every time we have let fear of newcomers drive our politics and our policies, we have made terrible mistakes that have betrayed the spirit and the promise of our founding. We do not set national immigration policy at the city level, but we will work within the law to ensure that Knoxville remains a welcoming place for everyone.”
We will not tear families apart. We will not leave children without their parents.
We are not going to undermine the progress the NYPD has made over a quarter century. We believe we are on solid ground for a legal challenge to the executive order should the occasion arise.”
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