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Sanctuary Cities
Republican States Go to War Against Democratic Local Governments Who cares about decentralized governance any more? Certainly not Trumpian Republicans, who want power for the level of government that obeys them.
By Ed Kilgore
president trump
Apr. 12, 2019
Trump’s Sanctuary-Cities Threat Is His Latest Bid to Govern by Sabotage Promising to inflict harm on innocent Americans — until a coequal branch of government acts as his pawn — is Trump’s favorite negotiating tactic.
By Eric Levitz
immigration
Apr. 12, 2019
Could Trump’s Illegal Plan to Ship Migrants to Cities Make Everyone Happy? The president’s assumption that urban liberals hate and fear migrants as much as he and the MAGA folk do isn’t necessarily accurate.
By Ed Kilgore
immigration
Aug. 13, 2018
ICE Arrests of Undocumented Immigrants Without Criminal Records Triple Through targeted sweeps and “collateral arrests,” ICE is beginning to terrorize immigrant communities.
By Ed Kilgore
Appeals Court Rules Against Trump Effort to Deny Grants to Sanctuary Cities The administration defended its proposed ban on grants to states and localities that don’t cooperate with ICE by arguing it was mere rhetoric.
By Ed Kilgore
House Democrats Refuse to Take Bait on ‘Abolish ICE’ Vote Arranged by GOP Republicans want to distract attention from their own immigration disagreements and burn a straw man, but House Democrats aren’t cooperating.
By Ed Kilgore
Georgia GOP Candidate’s ‘Deportation Bus,’ Like His Campaign, Breaks Down GOP gubernatorial candidate Michael Williams is going nowhere fast, but the general-election showdown in November is becoming more interesting.
By Ed Kilgore
Red State Republicans Are Trying to Trump Each Other’s Trumpiness GOP candidates for governor of Georgia are tripping over each other to sound like Trump on “the swamp” and sanctuary cities.
By Ed Kilgore
The Resistance to ‘the Resistance,’ in Orange County Famously right-wing Orange County, California, is changing rapidly — but not so rapidly that its county government isn’t fighting back.
By Ed Kilgore
Lou Dobbs Clip Inspires Trump to Undermine His Own Legal Position on Immigration Imagine the chagrin of Justice Department lawyers who woke up to find that a tweet from POTUS had sabotaged their legal fight with California.
By Ed Kilgore
No Immigration or Obamacare Deals As Huge Spending Bill Shambles Toward Passage Most of the controversial riders are out, but modest gun measures could yet be enacted.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Trip to California Is Aimed to Displease The president’s quick trip to California won’t involve efforts to charm the locals. It’s part of a strategy to demonize the state.
By Ed Kilgore
Judge Rules Trump’s Sanctuary-Cities Order Flagrantly Unconstitutional The Trump-Sessions effort to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities is now dead, and likely won’t be revived in its current form.
By Ed Kilgore
It’s All About Turnout: Virginia Gubernatorial Candidates Rev Up Their Bases In a contest with huge implications for 2018, it’s coming down the stretch to a battle of turnout operations.
By Ed Kilgore
There’s a Lot at Stake in the VA Governor’s Race — and Democrats Are Worried Polls are now very tight in a nasty culture-war campaign. If Republican Ed Gillespie wins, look out in 2018.
By Ed Kilgore
Northam Now Saying He’d Ban Sanctuary Cities — If There Were Any in Virginia One of Ed Gillespie’s attack lines accuses his opponent of favoring sanctuary cities. It seems to have drawn blood.
By Ed Kilgore
Race-Baiting 2017 GOP Campaigns Could Infect the 2018 Elections The racist campaigns the GOP is running in Virginia and New Jersey could spread everywhere next year.
By Ed Kilgore
Experts: Murder Rate Appears to Have Stopped Rising The rise in murder rates in many major cities appears to be over, but it’s left a legacy in reactionary “crime wave” rhetoric and policies.
By Ed Kilgore
Federal Judge Blocks Texas’s Harsh Anti–Sanctuary City Law The law, which is backed by the Trump administration, was set to go into effect on Friday.
By Margaret Hartmann
Chicago Sues Over Sanctuary City Threat, Sessions Blasts City’s ‘Lawlessness’ The city says the Justice Department’s new qualifications for federal grant money are “unauthorized and unconstitutional.”
By Margaret Hartmann
With Nasty Tweets, Trump Steps on His Immigration Message, Big League Today should have been a day of celebration for legislative action on Trump’s immigration agenda. Instead, he went on Twitter and stepped all over it.
By Ed Kilgore
Texas Governor Signs Nation’s Harshest Anti–‘Sanctuary City’ Bill Into Law Local authorities could face fines or jail time for refusing to comply with federal immigration officials.
By Margaret Hartmann
A Frustrated and Confused Trump Wants to Bust Up the 9th Circuit Believing in error that an appeals court made a district court decision he could have avoided, the president lashes out ineffectually at judges again.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Attacks Wrong Court for Sanctuary Cities Decision On Twitter, the president lashes out at the Ninth Circuit for a district court decision that his own blustering words made inevitable.
By Ed Kilgore
Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Punishment of Sanctuary Cities Enforcement of the executive order has been halted on grounds that administration tough-talk vastly exceeds the government’s constitutional powers.
By Ed Kilgore
Justice Department Declares New York City ‘Soft on Crime’ “New York City continues to see gang murder after gang murder” due to its “‘soft on crime’ stance.” (NYC had a record-low crime rate in 2016).
By Eric Levitz
Trump’s Ego Could Cause a Government Shutdown Negotiators have some wiggle room on an April 28 deadline for a funding deal. But the 100-day mark of the Trump presidency could cause its own crisis.
By Ed Kilgore
the urbanist
Apr. 18, 2017
The Urban-Rural Divide Matters More Than Red Versus Blue State The more metropolitan liberals resist, protest, and strike, the more foreign they will become to the rest of the country.
By Justin Davidson
Police Union Head Says NYC Cops Want to Help ICE Deport More People “Make no mistake about it, the members of law enforcement in the NYPD want to cooperate with ICE.”
By Eric Levitz
last night on late night
Feb. 9, 2017
By Halle Kiefer
Trump’s Homeland Security Head Takes Blame for Travel Ban Rollout Even though multiple reports say he was barely consulted on the executive order.
By Eric Levitz
reasons to love new york
Dec. 13, 2016
44 Immigrant New Yorkers on Living in a Sanctuary City We may have a fabled reputation for crossed-arm toughness, but in reality, New York is the city whose arms have always been open the widest.
reasons to love new york
Dec. 11, 2016
Trump May Have America, But the City Is Still Ours The election reminded us that New York has always been a bubble. And what a bubble it is.
By David Wallace-Wells
Antonin Scalia Might Have Saved Sanctuary Cities His ruling in a 1997 gun-control case could prevent Trump from punishing cities that refuse to cooperate with mass deportation.
By Eric Levitz