“Such policies cannot continue. They make our nation less safe by putting dangerous criminals back on the streets…”
By Kyle Balluck, The Hill:
Newark, N.J. Mayor Ras Baraka (D) in an interview early Sunday said the Trump administration’s threat to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities is an attempt to intimidate local officials into becoming “fugitive slave catchers.”
“I think that them targeting sanctuary cities is a way for them to tell mayors and other folks around the country: one, that they’re sticking to what, I think, is a very unconstitutional, un-American policy and trying to intimidate us into being what I’ve called ‘fugitive slave catchers’ that run around and do their bidding in our cities,” Baraka said on “PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton” on MSNBC.
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