{"id":403264,"date":"2019-04-17T13:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-all-need-sanctuary-from-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:58:58","slug":"we-all-need-sanctuary-from-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-all-need-sanctuary-from-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"We All Need Sanctuary From Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>There is no missing the messages Donald Trump has been sending even before white nationalist senior adviser Stephen Miller was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/homeland-security-purge-ushers-in-the-stephen-miller-administration\/\">given control<\/a><span> over the administration\u2019s immigration policy: Go away, migrants and asylum seekers, the country is full. That this is nonsense \u2014 Nordics need not apply? I don\u2019t think so \u2014 is inconsequential to him and the people who carry his dank water. Cruelty is the coin of the realm, racism the language spoken to his devout base, and the rule of law broken and forged again in the fires of white nationalism is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/trump-is-tired-of-hearing-you-cant-do-that-we-should-all-be-afraid\/\">final goal<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The latest iteration of this ongoing degeneration arrived last Thursday, when <em>The <\/em><em>Washington Post<\/em> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/immigration\/white-house-proposed-releasing-immigrant-detainees-in-sanctuary-cities-targeting-political-foes\/2019\/04\/11\/72839bc8-5c68-11e9-9625-01d48d50ef75_story.html?utm_term=.2a6d7836e729\">reported<\/a><span> that Trump had proposed shipping thousands of migrants to various \u201csanctuary cities\u201d around the country as a way to punish Democrats who refused to give him his southern border wall. The idea, to the shock of none, was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/stephen-miller-must-testify-placing-immigrants-sanctuary-cities-nadler-says\">credited<\/a><span> to Miller. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <em>The Post<\/em>, the idea was shot down by officials and legal experts for being illegal, logistically unworkable and (worst of all) terrible optics. After a day of horrified reactions, which included a White House statement claiming the strategy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/11\/us\/politics\/sanctuary-cities-trump.html?module=inline\">had been dispensed with<\/a><span>, Trump jumped out of his spider hole and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-sanctuary-cities.html\">doubled down<\/a><span> on the plan. \u201c<\/span>The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1116742282286440448\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201cso this should make them very happy!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high  inline-callout-container\" id=\"truth-1113074216\">\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high\" id=\"truth-602941418\">\n<aside class=\" callout inline-callout callout--subscribe callout--light\" id=\"truth-2114151026\">\n<h4>Never miss another story<\/h4>\n<p>Get the news you want, delivered to your inbox every day.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Once in a while, and all too rarely these days, we are afforded a moment when the better angels of this nation\u2019s nature rise up and spread their wings. So it was when sanctuary city after sanctuary city \u2013 there are more than <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2019\/04\/12\/sanctuary-cities-illegal-immigrants-can-carry-many-definitions\/3449063002\/\">300 declared jurisdictions<\/a><span> within 27 states \u2013 called Trump\u2019s bluff. The front page of Saturday\u2019s <em>New York Daily News<\/em> spoke for all with a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D4AFI69XsAAMlCc.jpg\">bellowed response<\/a><span>: WE\u2019LL TAKE THEM. \u201c<\/span>We will do what we have always done, and we will be stronger for it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/seattle-isnt-afraid-of-immigrants-mr-trump\/2019\/04\/12\/f26c370e-5d5e-11e9-9625-01d48d50ef75_story.html\">wrote<\/a> Jenny A. Durkan, mayor of the sanctuary&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/we-all-need-sanctuary-from-donald-trump\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no missing the messages Donald Trump has been sending even before white nationalist senior adviser Stephen Miller was given control over the administration\u2019s immigration policy: Go away, migrants and asylum seekers, the country is full. That this is nonsense \u2014 Nordics need not apply? I don\u2019t think so \u2014 is inconsequential to him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}