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Donald Trump is considering sending detained migrants to U.S. “sanctuary cities.” Though Trump staffers had at one point said this plan was dead, Trump confirmed on Friday, April 12, that he still wanted to send illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities and “let that particular area take care of it.”

This and other recent Trump statements and tweets about immigration policy and sanctuary cities are little more than, “You asked for it, you got it” – a thin, half-hearted pretense of “working with the Democrats” and extending a hand across the aisle. It’s apparent that Trump and many Republicans see such a move as political retribution against the Democrats and others who oppose Trump.

On April 13, 2019, Trump tweeted, “Just out: The USA as the absolute legal right to have apprehended illegal immigrants transferred to Sanctuary Cities. We hereby demand that they be taken care of at the highest level, especially by the state of California, which is well known (f)or its poor management & high taxes!”

White House press secretary Hogan Gidley denies that this idea is born out of retaliation against Trump’s adversaries. “…If anything,” he said, it should be considered by the Democrats to be “an olive branch.”

Gidley calls out one possible destination to send detained immigrants: Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district. “Places like San Francisco, or a sanctuary city, they are designed and set up specifically to have people there who aren’t here legally. That’s what their stated goal is, so there’s no reason we shouldn’t be looking at a way to give them exactly what they want.”

Dara Lind, of Vox, says that Trump seems to believe that the people of San Francisco “are secretly just as anti-immigrant as he is, and would freak out if they actually saw immigrants in their neighborhoods.”

Trump’s plan to send illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities, with the apparent expectation that they’ll “freak out,” my well backfire.

It’s clear, says Lind, that Trump “may not understand that a large swath of the public genuinely doesn’t agree with him about immigration. – not just the governments of sanctuary cities, but the people who elect those governments.”

President Trump Says Migrants Will Be Sent To Sanctuary Cities | TIME [2019-04-15]

Tucker: Trump calls Democrats’ bluff on illegal immigrants | Fox News [2019-04-12]

The U.S. slides into Christmas with a partial government shutdown, which began at just after midnight on Saturday morning, December 22, and may continue into the New Year. The partial shutdown is a result of the inability of representatives in Congress to reach an agreement with each other and with Donald Trump regarding his demands to fund a border wall. By Saturday, many House and Senate lawmakers had left town for the holidays, so a new vote is not likely in the near future. Fingers are pointing on both sides as to who is to blame for the partial shutdown.

Trump had said the previous week, on December 11, when a shutdown seemed a little less likely, that he would “own” a shutdown if it occurred. “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck (speaking to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer). … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

On December 19, the Senate passed a bill that seemed amenable to Trump and that looked as if it would prevent a shutdown, at least through February. In an apparent reversal on December 20, however, Trump said he wouldn’t sign the bill, after all, and that he won’t sign any bill that doesn’t include his required $5 billion to fund his border wall.

The House was then set to pass a spending deal with Trump’s required $5 billion for the border wall, but without Senate Democrats’ votes, the bill won’t pass in the Senate. On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the Senate would not take more votes until all sides could agree on a deal.

“When those negotiations produce a solution that is acceptable to all of those parties,” said McConnell, “It will receive a vote here on the Senate floor.”

On Friday, December 21, after previously declaring that he would “own” a shutdown, Trump did a turnaround tweet: “The Democrats now own the shutdown!”

In a video posted to Twitter, Trump said, “We’re going to have a shutdown. There’s nothing we can do about that because we need the Democrats to give us their votes. Call it a Democrat shutdown, call it whatever you want, but we need their help to get this approved.”

Though Trump blames the current partial shutdown on the Democrats, Senate Democrats did support the bill that passed on December 19, and that appeared to have Trump’s support, until he flip-flopped.

As House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi points out, “Democrats are for real border security solutions. Not for wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on an immoral, ineffective & expensive wall.”

Though government shutdowns have happened under other administrations, they are not common, especially under an administration in which one party controls all three branches. This, however, is the third shutdown in less than a year.

Partial government shutdown to continue through Christmas | Fox News [2018-12-24]

Day one of partial federal shutdown: Things go ‘from bad to worse’ |
PBS News Hour [2018-12-22]

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Sanctuary Cities May Receive Detained Immigrants

U.S. Government Greets Partial Shutdown for the Holidays