{UAH} White House Considered Releasing Migrants in ‘Sanctuary Cities’ - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/us/politics/white-house-migrants-sanctuary-cities.html

Protesters outside the federal courthouse in San Antonio in 2017 rallying against a bill in Texas that bans so-called sanctuary cities.CreditEric Gay/Associated Press

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Protesters outside the federal courthouse in San Antonio in 2017 rallying against a bill in Texas that bans so-called sanctuary cities.CreditCreditEric Gay/Associated Press

By Michael D. Shear and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

• April 11, 2019

WASHINGTON — President Trump's top aides considered an idea to pressure immigration agencies to release apprehended migrants into so-called sanctuary cities represented by Democratic lawmakers, according to several people familiar with the proposal.

The idea was floated in an email by a top White House policy adviser in November, when Mr. Trump was furiously condemning migrant caravans from Central America headed toward the southwestern border, the people, including two government officials, said.

In the email dated Nov. 16, with the subject line "Sanctuary City Proposal," May Davis, the deputy White House policy coordinator, raised the idea with officials from the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.

Ms. Davis suggested that migrants who had been apprehended and were slated to be released into border towns could instead be taken to one of several sanctuary cities, which limit how local law enforcement can cooperate with federal immigration officers.

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