U.S. President Donald Trump wants to explore a twice-rejected proposal to send migrants to 'sanctuary cities,' but that is not the preferred solution to fix the straining immigration system, the White House said Sunday.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump wants to explore a twice-rejected proposal to send migrants to "sanctuary cities," but that is not the preferred solution to fix the straining immigration system, the White House said Sunday.
Laws make it hard to quickly return Central Americans, and many of them spend years in the U.S. waiting for their immigration cases to play out. Others claim asylum and wait just as long, living and working in the U.S. as they wait. Sanders said the idea would be to spread out the number of migrants so the strain would not be on "one or two border communities."
It actually could make it more difficult for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to arrest people facing deportation because sanctuary cities do not work with ICE. "Look, you can't threaten somebody with something they're not afraid of," said Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington state, a candidate for president. "And we are not afraid of diversity in the state of Washington. We relish it. It is the basis of our economic and cultural success. We're built as a state of immigrants."
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