FEDERAL FUNDING/ICE/SANCTUARY CITIES/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “But I think, in the bigger picture, I don’t see helping cities and states if they’re going to be sanctuary. Because all sanctuary means to me is it’s protecting a lot of criminals and — and others — many people. But they are — there are criminals. And, you know, you write about it all the time. I see stories every day where somebody is being totally protected. ICE can’t get to them. Law enforcement can’t get to them. You look at law enforcement; law enforcement hates sanctuary cities.
We want a safe country. We don’t want people that are criminals — and criminals from other countries, in many cases — protected and you can’t get to them.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump and Vice President Pence in Roundtable with Industry Executives on the Plan for Opening Up America Again,” whitehouse.gov, Apr. 29, 2020