(The Center Square) – As part of preparing for President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office has issued a directive to all city departments prohibiting cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies regarding immigration enforcement.
Seattle Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs Director Hamdi Mohamed said the current rhetoric regarding immigration reform under another Trump administration will lead to fear among immigrant and refugee families in the Emerald City.
“Regardless of these actions occurring or not, what will happen is the chilling effect,” he said during a Seattle City Council briefing on Monday. “Folks will begin to fear accessing services – and people being afraid to report crimes against themselves.”
According to city statistics, there are more than 143,687 foreign-born residents within Seattle, including 21,000 undocumented people. read more
Hit the hard heads where it hurts most – refund the sanctuary cities Mr. President!
The US needs to be protected from the folks in Seattle not just the illegals.
Biden has opened up lots of jail space with his pardons. These criminals can fill them all.
Hmmm…sounds like Hamdi Mohamed needs to be on the first plane out.
Bruce Harrell and Hamdi Mohamed? Well, I just had to go and look, and DAMN if I wasn’t right.
sk dk, ******
Defund Seattle. Cut it off. Let it rot. The people there are cowards.
Oh joy, something new to go totally fuck up. Legio XIX
The new governor of Washington is Bob Ferguson. Believe it or not he is likely worse than Jay Inslee. He is making noise about fighting Trump at every opportunity. I’d open a bottle of Champagne it Homan was to arrest Ferguson!
Shouldn’t Trump just set up military flights to take all of the illegals from the rest of the US and drop them off in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, etc.??
If you are here legally, you have nothing to worry about. What part of “illegal” don’t these idiots comprehend? On a side note, I wonder how Seattle’s mayor will enjoy his federal prison cell?
Liberal commie leftists don’t care about the illegals, I’m sure they just love to spite Trump and the American patriots.
Oh dear. Seattle’s commie “leaders” are about to get, as the popular saying now goes, mugged by reality. We’ll see if Homan means it, but it seems that second to his priority of deporting illegals is his zeal for jailing anyone who obstructs his first priority. And I don’t think he would have been given the green light from Trump to state his objectives so clearly in the past several months unless what he declares is true. But we will see. I would be delighted to see Seattle’s mayor and cronies in jailhouse jewelry.
Seattle pols don’t want to lose those 21,000 votes.
Go ahead… be the nail that sticks up.
It only makes it easier to know where to go first!
I can think of a couple of people the Feds could also arrest.
Dear Lord, I beseech thee to provide us with video of ICE arresting woke politicians wearing handcuffs and being loaded into police cars. AMEN!