# Trump administration considered releasing illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 12, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453 "2019-04-12T19:36:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/41 "2019-04-12T20:57:34Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Except Obama wouldn’t support that and Republicans wouldn’t have a huge problem. Here, Trump could support it and the Dems have a huge problem. Trump supports bringing immigrants into the United States? He has an odd way of showing it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/42 "2019-04-12T20:57:51Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Except Obama wouldn’t support that and Republicans wouldn’t have a huge problem. Here, Trump could support it and the Dems have a huge problem. Bring it on, in this case you are still ignoring that even ICE can see how this can be tossed out of court in New York minute. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/43 "2019-04-12T20:59:15Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Ok. I think ICE is wrong 100% of the time and favor abolition. > > Which of the other options on the table do you favor? Incarceration or deportation? I’m in favor of less pathetic arguments, specially the ones that are going out of the OP’s subject. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/44 "2019-04-12T20:59:17Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Trump supports bringing immigrants into the United States? He has an odd way of showing it. > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk This thread is about an idea of freeing migrants in sanctuary cities. Welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/45 "2019-04-12T21:01:06Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > This thread is about an idea of freeing migrants in sanctuary cities. Welcome. And trump supports bringing them into the United States in your mind? ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/46 "2019-04-12T21:01:16Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I’m in favor of less pathetic arguments, specially the ones that are going out of the OP’s subject. So do you favor the status quo or the release of migrants in sanctuary cities? Those are the only options on the table at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/47 "2019-04-12T21:02:00Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > This thread is about an idea of freeing migrants in sanctuary cities. Welcome. They were free before they were rounded up, weren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/48 "2019-04-12T21:02:20Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > And trump supports bringing them into the United States in your mind? No. He supports releasing them into these cities once captured. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/49 "2019-04-12T21:02:45Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > This thread is about an idea of freeing migrants in sanctuary cities. Welcome. Actually the OP said “illegal immigrants”, of course since that is wrong already, the idea is even more pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/50 "2019-04-12T21:03:01Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > So do you favor the status quo or the release of migrants in sanctuary cities? Those are the only options on the table at the moment. Get a bigger table, and join in on the actual conversation going on here. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/51 "2019-04-12T21:03:44Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > They were free before they were rounded up, weren’t they? Yes. I favor a return to that status except they will be freed in friendly territory safe from the danger they were fleeing. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/52 "2019-04-12T21:04:52Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Actually the OP said “illegal immigrants”, of course since that is wrong already, the idea is even more pathetic. Post 46 ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/53 "2019-04-12T21:05:21Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > No. He supports releasing them into these cities once captured. Right. He supports keeping them out altogether. I’m glad we’ve established that my parallel is a ridiculous and disingenuous argument to make. Now let’s move in to the new information that trump is promising to hand out pardons to those breaking the law on this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/54 "2019-04-12T21:07:05Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Ok. So keep them in cages while it is straightened out, or continue deportations until then? LOL. Is this really the only two options you can come up with? ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/55 "2019-04-12T21:08:05Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Right. He supports keeping them out altogether. > > I’m glad we’ve established that my parallel is a ridiculous and disingenuous argument to make. > > Now let’s move in to the new information that trump is promising to hand out parsons to those breaking the law on this issue. I’m glad you admitted to making a ridiculous and disingenuous argument. That is not the topic of the thread, but have fun elsewhere, it doesn’t interest me. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/56 "2019-04-12T21:09:08Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > LOL. Is this really the only two options you can come up with? That is the status quo and has been for decades. This policy would be a move toward freedom and I would definitely favor it if I were a migrant. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/57 "2019-04-12T21:09:16Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Yes. I favor a return to that status except they will be freed in friendly territory safe from the danger they were fleeing. Could you cut the crap, just this once? The reason Trump wanted to release those people in Sanctuary cities was that he was hoping to overload the systems set up there to help the immigrants that are already there. He wanted yet another opportunity to smirk, nothing more and nothing less. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/58 "2019-04-12T21:09:22Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > No. He supports releasing them into these cities once captured. And that is one point that is being ignored so as to try to make the pathetic point to be a pumped he-man. Those are no longer people that are undocumented, but people that have basic rights now. Releasing them in sanctuary cities can be considered only after finding that they have family or other connections in those cities. Otherwise this non-operative moot maneuver would had been conductive to keep families separated the longest, and just for spiteful reasons. No, not a human thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/59 "2019-04-12T21:16:47Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Post 46 Even a more pathetic reply. The status quo also includes releasing people into sanctuary cities when they are close by or if family and friends live there. They also currently go to cities that are not sanctuaries as they do have papers now. And, once again, nothing what Trump has said can be taken seriously regarding the other option that you are talking about. Yep; a very, very sad effort. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/60 "2019-04-12T21:44:52Z")
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