# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**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 14, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/101 "2019-04-14T21:09:53Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > He is cutting aid to Central America because the GOp found out how effective the scare tactic of a “invasion” of “tens of thousands” was in the last election. > > He hopes there will be more and larger caravans, which may help him sit in the White House for another four years. Since that last election was the midterms… it did not work as well as he wanted. That it will work for his base is a given, but independents are less amused. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/102 "2019-04-14T21:12:43Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Since that last election was the midterms… it did not work as well as he wanted. > > That it will work for his base is a given, but independents are less amused. The GOP kept the Senate and thus control of Congress. Mitch wont let any bill even get a vote he doesnt want. ---
**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 14, 2019, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/103 "2019-04-14T22:08:47Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > The GOP kept the Senate and thus control of Congress. Mitch wont let any bill even get a vote he doesnt want. Trump himself told everyone that the house was coming with oversight powers for the Democrats if his party lost the house, and there was also a big push with propaganda to “stop the caravans, vote Republican”, again, it did not work as Trump wanted. While the senate was a disappointment, what is happening now is that all independents and minorities are seeing a senate where the three monkey act is the rule and abuse is allowed constantly. That will not turn to be as great a move as many Republicans expect. Speaking of the senate, it has to be noticed here that new Republican senator [del]Lord Voldemort[/del] Rick Scott of Florida was barely elected thanks to being a critic of Trump in several immigration issues. > **[Rick Scott’s Double-Speak on Immigration](https://prospect.org/power/rick-scott-s-double-speak-immigration/)** > > The Republicans’ Florida senatorial nominee has one message in his Spanish-language ads and another in his English-language ones. > [@](#): > > Florida Democrats say Scott’s current moderate rebranding for swing and Latino voters is only his latest political pivot. Without a primary opponent to force him to the right in his bid for the Senate, Scott has been able to straddle the line between the political leanings of Florida’s different regions—or hop back and forth over it—without political repercussion. That’s in contrast to the Republican gubernatorial primary, where GOP nominee Ron DeSantis, a former Florida congressman, edged out his competition thanks in large part to an endorsement from Trump. DeSantis was a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus and took to Trump almost immediately while in Congress, proposing an amendment to last year’s spending bill that would have cut off funding for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and would have prevented any probing into “matters occurring” before the month that Trump announced his presidency. > > In the run-up to his Senate bid and in the months since, Scott has signaled his disagreement with the Trump administration on several policies, including rescinding protections for Dreamers and the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that separated migrant families at the border, while making sure not to challenge the president too firmly. > > The strategy seems to be working. And it did. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/104 "2019-04-14T23:44:30Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Trump himself told everyone that the house was coming with oversight powers for the Democrats if his party lost the house, and there was also a big push with propaganda to “stop the caravans, vote Republican”, again, it did not work as Trump wanted. > > While the senate was a disappointment, what is happening now is that all independents and minorities are seeing a senate where the three monkey act is the rule and abuse is allowed constantly. That will not turn to be as great a move as many Republicans expect… True the fear tactic wasnt a complete success but pundits have said it certainly helped the GOP. Mitch has made the fact that having a handful more votes means only things he likes get done, nothing else even gets debate. this is gonna backfire in 2020… I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/105 "2019-04-15T13:42:45Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > The obvious response to your remark here is that there’s another option: they can be released from incarceration under circumstances that are favorable for both the migrants and the communities in which they are being released. That’s cool with me. How would they get to these communities? And what circumstances do you think would be favorable for these communities? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/106 "2019-04-15T14:17:46Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > That’s cool with me. How would they get to these communities? Generally speaking, they have been going to those communities for years and years and years. If someone comes across the border and claims asylum – as they are legally allowed to do – then many times the claimants go to places where they have family or some kind of support structure to wait for their case to wind through the bureaucracy. Seriously, what do you think they do? Sit in cages for several years? ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/107 "2019-04-15T19:29:18Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Generally speaking, they have been going to those communities for years and years and years. If someone comes across the border and claims asylum – as they are legally allowed to do – then many times the claimants go to places where they have family or some kind of support structure to wait for their case to wind through the bureaucracy. > > Seriously, what do you think they do? Sit in cages for several years? I have no doubt they “go to places where they have family”. My question was, how do they get there? Does the US pay for them to get there? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/108 "2019-04-15T19:55:21Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Ok so it is exactly what I thought it was. What is the problem with taking migrants there? So Trump’s plan is to do what? Simply let them go as if they are legal residents? Well, okay then. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/109 "2019-04-15T20:18:39Z")
Here in Baja Canada, when the Hmong were brought in, it was a bit awkward. Even more so when it was the Somalis. Now, they are Walmart workers, cab drivers, nursing students, county workers. Ordinary. Normal. People, in a word. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/110 "2019-04-15T20:26:15Z")
Via [Twitter](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1117821219875594240), retweeted by @POTUS and @WhiteHouse, so I guess that makes it official policy… > [@@realDonaldTrump](#): > > Those Illegal Immigrants who can no longer be legally held (Congress must fix the laws and loopholes) will be, subject to Homeland Security, given to Sanctuary Cities and States! ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/111 "2019-04-15T20:57:10Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Via [Twitter](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1117821219875594240), retweeted by @POTUS and @WhiteHouse, so I guess that makes it official policy… Boy is he going to be surprised when the asylum seekers buy bus tickets and go wherever they wanted to go in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/112 "2019-04-22T18:35:42Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I have no doubt they “go to places where they have family”. My question was, how do they get there? Does the US pay for them to get there? The funny part is that normally they are responsible for getting themselves wherever they want to go and paying for their own transportation. Depending on how Trump proposes sending people to sanctuary cities, some people might be glad to find out that the Feds are paying to send them to the place they planned to go anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453/113 "2019-04-22T18:54:29Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > The funny part is that normally they are responsible for getting themselves wherever they want to go and paying for their own transportation. Depending on how Trump proposes sending people to sanctuary cities, some people might be glad to find out that the Feds are paying to send them to the place they planned to go anyway. Thanks for the information. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-administration-considered-releasing-illegal-immigrants-in-sanctuary-cities/832453.md?page=5)