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Plan to skewer US sanctuary city mayors backfires on Republicans (www.theguardian.com)

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Before a packed room on Capitol Hill, the House oversight committee, led by its Republican chair, James Comer of Kentucky, sought to portray sanctuary cities – a city that touts municipal laws that protect undocumented migrants – as havens for criminal activity and foreign gangs.

“The point that we’ve got to iron out today is that we have to have cooperation with federal law to turn over those illegal criminals to Ice and we’ve heard reports and many of you have said publicly that you are going to obstruct that,” Comer said. “That is against the law. And we’re going to hear more about that today.”

But instead of cornering the mayors, Republican lawmakers seemed to inadvertently provide them a national megaphone to sell their approaches to local governance and immigration.

“If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms,” Boston mayor Michelle Wu said. “Stop cutting Medicaid. Stop cutting cancer research. Stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our cities safe.”

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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Its good in the sense this stuff is brought up and made known even if it is being ignored. I recently saw a post where someone is like, someone needs to make these things known and that is the job of the democrats and they are failing. Well yeah failing but not for lack of trying. Its the old you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. I actually have first hand experience with a community of undocumented not talking to police and it was early 2000's but many of these rules improved that type of communication. Without it the gangs rule the neighborhood and they become those so called no go zones.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

You’re absolutely right. I’m just kind of venting here about the obstinance of conservatives right now