Democrats slam US president for 'cruel indifference' to plight of immigrants as Trump considers costly plan to house them all in sanctuary cities
first reported on Thursday that the White House has been considering a plan for transporting immigrants in detention and releasing them into sanctuary cities that are Democratic strongholds.But she added, "it's just another notion that is unworthy of the presidency of the United States and disrespectful of the challenges that we face, as a country, as a people, to address who we are, a nation of immigrants.
Critics branded the plan, supposedly rejected, as an effort to use migrants as pawns to go after political opponents. US Department of Homeland Security lawyers quickly rejected the proposal, according to the people, and it was dropped.The plan is one of many ideas considered by an increasingly frustrated White House in recent months as Trump has railed against the growing number of Central American migrant families crossing the southern border. Officials say they are running out of options, and have proposed and recycled numerous ideas that have never come to fruition.
And he and aides are weighing forcing asylum-seeking families to choose between being detained together as their cases make their way through the courts or sending their children to government-run shelters.
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