Jennifer Bendery is a senior politics reporter for HuffPost. She has covered Congress and the White House for HuffPost since April 2011. She previously reported on Congress for four years for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, and spent four years covering the Texas Legislature for GalleryWatch in Austin, TX.
WASHINGTON — Democratic governors around the country are vowing to fight President-elect Donald Trump ’s plans to round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he’s “willing to try anything” to stop Trump’s sweeping plans, including mass deportations, that are “contrary to our values.”last week, referring to minority communities in his state who experienced the “chaos, retribution and disarray” of Trump in his first term in office.
She cautioned people not to let Trump’s rhetoric of primarily deporting criminals to ”skew our understanding of who now has to live in fear that they will be picked up, just because they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time — and what that means for millions of people and millions of mixed-status households in the country, who have to worry that their husband or their father is not going to come home whenever they leave the house.
“What we want to make sure is that state governments and city governments, where it’s possible, are providing training and legal advice and support to their frontline employees who are going to be receiving this request,” said Shah.
“The federal government certainly has its own authority and can act within it, but they often — almost always — heavily rely on local and state cooperation, which need not be given,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta told HuffPost., in 2018, when the Trump administration tried to halt it. He expects Democratic governors and state attorneys general to be monitoring the coming Trump administration to see if it tries to break laws.
Immigration rights groups are urging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to publicly support a bill that prevents state and local law enforcement from transferring undocumented immigrants to ICE.For the moment, New York offers undocumented immigrants a disjointed mix of local ordinances that offer protections in some places and no safeguards in others.
“If we can’t get assistance from New York City, we may have to double the number of agents we send to New York City, because we’re going to do the job,” he. “If sanctuary cities don’t want to help us, then get the hell out of the way, because we’re coming.” County sheriffs in particular will play a key role in whether Trump can ramp up deportations because, simply put, they run the jails, said Pishko.
“The problem is how many counties voted for Trump. Probably more than 80%,” Pishko said. “So in all those counties, sheriffs are in counties where people voted for Trump, and it’s pretty likely they will cooperate with ICE.”“That is 1000% illegal,” said the state attorney general. “There’s nothing magic about being independently elected. They all have to follow the law.
Meanwhile, California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week convened a special session of the state legislature to boost the state’s legalsaid in a statement
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