Sanctuary cities plan to resist Trump's mass deportation plans

(NewsNation) — Ahead of a Donald Trump presidency, leaders successful sanctuary cities importune they volition not assistance immoderate mass deportation plans aft Inauguration Day.

In states similar Colorado, Illinois and New York, wherever hundreds of thousands of migrants person been bused from the confederate borderline by GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, officials person doubled down connected their committedness to support newcomers.

Los Angeles became the latest metropolis to o.k. sanctuary presumption aft the City Council unanimously approved a measure this week.

The ordinance prohibits the usage of metropolis resources for national migration enforcement. It could besides mean imaginable ineligible battles arsenic the Trump medication prepares to usage ICE and the subject to transportation retired the run committedness of wide deportations.

An estimated 1.8 cardinal immigrants successful the U.S. illegally unrecorded in California, much than immoderate different state, with astir a cardinal successful Los Angeles County. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass expedited the sanctuary metropolis ordinance arsenic absorption to Trump's wide deportation plan.

In Chicago, wherever more than 50,000 caller arrivals person been sent since 2022, Mayor Brandon Johnson has characterized Trump arsenic a tyrant and says the city’s constabulary unit has capable enactment to bash without assisting successful apprehending immigrants convicted of superior crimes.

“We’re not going to crook oregon interruption oregon cower to someone’s threat,” Johnson told reporters aft the election. “We’re going to basal up and unite astir our shared values, and (residents) person my assurance that I’m going to support the families of this city.”

Dozens of migrants, carrying their belongings successful bags, committee CTA warming buses aft being dropped disconnected successful Chicago connected Jan. 4, 2024. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Johnson previously targeted his choler astatine Abbott, who threatened to support sending busloads of immigrants to cities similar Chicago until the White House committed to securing the confederate border.

But Trump and Tom Homan, the erstwhile acting manager of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Trump’s "border czar," are promising to withhold national backing if Democrat-run cities don’t cooperate, starring immoderate leaders successful those places to propulsion backmost adjacent harder.

“Our city’s constabulary section is not going to (double) arsenic ICE agents — we’re conscionable not going to bash that,” Chicago’s politician said. “It’s a unsafe precedent wherever members of communities statesman to consciousness unsafe with their section constabulary department.”

Chicago constabulary declined to marque anyone disposable for an interrogation with NewsNation.

In effect to Democratic pushback successful cities similar Chicago, Homan has issued a warning.

“If you’re not going to assistance us, get the hellhole retired of the mode due to the fact that we’re going to bash it,” Homan told Fox News.

The standoff has created immoderate backlash successful Chicago, wherever Johnson’s basal to stay a welcoming metropolis for immigrants isn’t shared by immoderate different metropolis leaders.

“We request those funds similar you wouldn’t believe,” Alderman Anthony Napolitano told NewsNation. “The metropolis is successful truthful overmuch disarray … it’s been catastrophic for the metropolis of Chicago, and if you instrumentality distant those national funds, it’s lone going to get worse for america here.”

The pushback against Operation Aurora

In Colorado, which Trump targeted during his statesmanlike run implicit the beingness of migrants and alleged migrant pack enactment astatine an Aurora flat complex, officials are besides bracing for what could beryllium coming.

Trump told supporters that helium would deport convulsive criminals by sending “elite squads” of national agents to “hunt down, apprehension and deport” each azygous amerciable alien. He called the plan “Operation Aurora,” referencing the Denver suburb.

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis told Colorado Public Radio that portion helium welcomes national assistance successful tracking down and apprehending immigrants who person been convicted of superior crimes oregon beryllium to gangs, the state’s enactment for Trump’s plans ended there.

Residents clasp up placards during a rally staged by the East Colfax Community Collective to code chronic problems successful the flat buildings occupied by radical displaced from their location countries successful Central and South America Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, successful Aurora, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

“Obviously, it would devastate our system and our nine if idiosyncratic were to travel successful and forcibly instrumentality our neighbors distant from us,” Polis told the station.

As acold arsenic section constabulary engagement successful Trump’s projected crackdown connected migrant criminals, Aurora’s constabulary section says it volition stay focused connected dealing with section instrumentality enforcement.

“As we ever have, we volition enactment with our national partners and travel national instrumentality and directives arsenic they use to our community,” an Aurora metropolis spokesperson said successful a connection provided to NewsNation.

Police successful Denver, wherever astir 45,000 migrants person been sent by Abbott since 2022, told NewsNation that it does not assistance with the enforcement of national migration argumentation arsenic portion of metropolis statutes. In addition, a section spokesperson said Denver constabulary bash not inquire witnesses oregon victims of transgression astir migration status, removing a imaginable obstruction to reporting crimes and holding offenders accountable.

Tom Homan targets New York City’s attack

New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has denounced Trump’s wide deportation plans for a metropolis that has spent much than $5 cardinal successful lodging costs for the much than 200,000 migrants that person been sent determination since 2022.

The New York Times reported that Manuel Castro, New York’s commissioner of migrant affairs, has vowed not to travel “the instructions of the national authorities successful cases of wide deportations.”

Like different sanctuary cities, New York has provisions successful spot to bounds its information with national migration enforcement. That doesn’t prohibit ICE from apprehending immigrants who reside successful New York City but who are not U.S. citizens, the study said.

While ICE’s 287(g) Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes section constabulary departments to deputize officers to assistance with national migration enforcement efforts, the New York Police Department does not enactment successful those efforts, The New York Times reported.

Since 2014, the metropolis has declined to grant ICE detention orders that would impact the city’s constabulary section holding immigrants successful the U.S. illegally who person been charged with crimes successful custody until they tin beryllium picked up. However, nether New York law, criminals who person been convicted of 170 superior offenses — including execution and rape — are not protected.

But Homan has pledged to nonstop much national agents to apprehend convicted immigrants successful New York should metropolis officials garbage to cooperate.

“We’re going to bash the job,” Homan said successful an interrogation with Fox News. “We’re going to bash the occupation with you oregon without you.”