The newest authoritarian gambit of the Trump administration has are available a letter from Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi despatched to governors, county officers and mayors across the nation who’ve refused to take part within the federal authorities’s draconian roundup of alleged undocumented immigrants. Bondi threatened the varied elected leaders — all Democrats, in fact — with prosecution and lack of federal funding grants in the event that they fail to cooperate.
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson had the proper response to the letter: not on my watch.
“You appear to imagine that cavalierly threatening prison prosecution will end in me compromising the values of my state,” Ferguson wrote in a letter to Bondi. “By no means,” he mentioned.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell obtained the identical letter and, in his response, famous that immigration enforcement is the job of federal authorities, not town. Harrell mentioned Seattle is “a welcoming metropolis for all” and can defend metropolis residents in courtroom, if crucial.
Ferguson and Harrell’s defiance was matched by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who declared that her metropolis “won’t ever again down from being a beacon of freedom, and a house for everybody.”
Defending Bondi, Washington’s Republican Occasion Chairman Jim Walsh in contrast Ferguson to Accomplice leaders who defied the federal authorities within the 1860s. There’s a moderately stark distinction between Ferguson and Jefferson Davis, nevertheless. Confederates have been combating to protect slavery; Ferguson and different Democratic leaders are combating a reckless, law-abusing assault on males, girls and kids who could or could not lack correct paperwork, however who’re, overwhelmingly, productive residents of our communities.
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