Progressive priorities.
Via NY Daily News:
If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on one of his central campaign pledges — and, given his unpredictability, that’s a big “if” — Washington will soon be engaged in a game of federalist chicken with New York City, as well as with other localities that harbor undocumented immigrant populations.
Mayor de Blasio, to his credit, is hunkering down, telling the feds that this so-called sanctuary city, where some 500,000 people without papers live, intends to continue to protect all its people.
To the extent Trumpism is rooted in policy, the signature pledges are to build a wall on the southern U.S. border and start systematically cracking down on those who entered the country illegally, or stayed beyond the terms of their visas.
At first, Trump spoke of a “deportation force” that would systematically uproot people from their communities. Later in his campaign, he seemed to blur the stance, but still left no doubt that the Obama era, which saw deportations soar to record highs, was but a prelude for four years of ramped-up removals targeting not only violent criminals but ordinary, contributing members of society.
These are brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, and mothers and fathers — often with American citizen children.