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Democratic strongholds across America are mounting resistance against President-elect Donald Trump’s promised deportation initiatives, implementing protective measures for undocumented immigrants and creating obstacles for the upcoming administration’s enforcement plans, according to NBC News.
Major metropolitan areas including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia are taking preemptive actions through new ordinances, sanctuary designations, and legal challenges, despite Trump’s administration not yet taking office. The ACLU of Southern California has initiated legal proceedings against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, seeking information about deportation strategies.
The best border policies of all are to *eliminate the incentives* to be here illegally in the first place. End federal funding for sanctuary cities. End birthright citizenship for the kids of illegals. Deport those who entered illegally. End all aid to Central America & require… pic.twitter.com/T2rKkwWceC
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) February 26, 2024
“People’s fear is incredibly high,” Philadelphia Councilmember Rue Landau told NBC News. “They are bracing for the worst, and it’s up to us as local leaders to show the strength of our cities.”
Democratic leadership nationwide has declared non-cooperation with Trump’s administration regarding immigrant detention or location efforts, a stance that incoming border chief Tom Homan has confronted head-on.
“Game on,” Homan told Newsmax last Saturday, issuing a caution to progressive leaders, including Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, who intends to block federal agents from conducting deportations.
“Don’t step over a line because there’s a line they can’t cross,” Homan said. “Don’t impede us, actively impede us, because that is a crime. Do not knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien from ICE because that’s a crime.”
In another Newsmax conversation, Homan stated that Democratic leaders “don’t have to help us, but they need to get the hell out of the way because we’re coming.”
Critics of deportation cite family separation concerns, while overlooking approximately 300,000 migrant children separated under Biden’s policies, many exploited by cartels at the border.
The State of California is threatening police officers with felonies and the loss of their pensions for complying with federal deportation laws.
In El Cajon, we are NOT a sanctuary city, yet our officers are being forced into an impossible position—caught between state politics… pic.twitter.com/IaeJysK4E8
— Bill Wells (@MayorBillWells) November 27, 2024
“[E]xplain to me how 300,000-plus lost unaccompanied minors by the Biden administration, put into the hands, actually, of cartels by the parents themselves, how is that not family separation?” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told Newsmax on Tuesday.
Trump’s previous administration saw fewer deportations than both Biden and Obama, partially due to sanctuary policies in Democratic jurisdictions and advocacy organizations, which are now preparing similar resistance strategies.
“We can slow them down, prevent them from acting at the scale they want to act at. We can sap their morale and stymie their momentum,” Naureen Shah, deputy director of Government Affairs, Equality Division with the ACLU, told NBC News.
