.MaddowBlog: Does Pres. Trump realize his ‘sanctuary cities’ plan would make matters worse?
It started with reporting from the Washington Post and NBC News that seemed hard to believe: Donald Trump’s White House has engaged in behind-the-scenes efforts to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to “release detainees onto the streets of ‘sanctuary cities’ to retaliate against President Trump’s political adversaries.”
The New York Times reported this morning, meanwhile, that Trump only started pushing this absurdity “in part, people close to him said, to distract from” the release of the redacted Mueller report. Exactly. On the one hand, the president wants fewer people trying to enter the United States through the southern border. On the other, he’s now aggressively and publicly talking up a policy in which his administration would transport new arrivals – for free – to diverse and welcoming American cities, with large immigrant communities.
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