DEMS/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Friday [4-12-19] that his administration was ‘strongly’ considering releasing migrants detained at the border into mostly Democratic ‘sanctuary cities,’ suggesting that the idea should make liberals ‘very happy’ because of their immigration policies…The comments came a day after the administration said the policy proposal was never seriously considered. But after the president’s Twitter posts on Friday, a White House spokesman said Democrats should work with the administration to welcome migrants into their districts…Democratic lawmakers do not want ‘open borders,’ as the president has suggested. They favor improving border security, but they do not support many of Mr. Trump’s hard-line immigration policy proposals, such as building a wall along the southwestern border.”
–Eileen Sullivan, “Trump Says He Is Considering Releasing Migrants in ‘Sanctuary Cities’,” The New York Times online, April 12, 2019