Trump rails against sanctuary cities amid immigration talks
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump convened some of the nation’s top law enforcement officials Tuesday to rail against so-called sanctuary cities as he continues his crackdown on jurisdictions that flout federal immigration laws.
He accused cities that fail to co-operate with immigration authorities of putting the nation at risk by releasing “thousands of criminal aliens” who should be deported.
“In many cases they are very bad actors. We have gang members, we have predators, rapists, killers — a lot of bad people,” he said.
Trump’s latest immigration salvos came as negotiators on Capitol Hill tried to hash out a government-wide spending bill that appears increasingly unlikely to include big money for the president’s promised border wall.