Walsh affirms Boston’s role as sanctuary city

Why sanctuary cities

Declaring a sanctuary city status gives opponents of Trump's deportation policy a base on which to organize and gain popular support. Terrified kids and their parents make good TV footage. Thousands of native American residents know an immigrant who isn't a rapist or a drug dealer, giving the protection of the undocumented some of the kind of normalization that made gay marriage rights such a sudden triumph.

I mentioned the resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act, which was very big in Boston long ago, because there is something of the same dynamic. The immigration issue becomes personalized in some nice-seeming families who live locally, taking the fear factor Trump exploits so powerfully out of the equation.

There is also the real likelihood that Trump will counter-punch places like Boston over the issue of sanctuary, making the issue one of local freedom versus jack-booted government oppressors. All this helps opponents of the Trump right wing coalesce around community-based political action. It also makes for good TV.

Every House seat is up for grabs in less than two years. Trump is having a tough enough time delivering on any of his hundreds of campaign promises before the next election; dealing with a nation-wide pattern of local resistance by sanctuary providers isn't going to help his image outside of his small base of hard-core nativists.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
won't be that hard......just turn off the spigot and sit back......
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Mayors like Walsh might want to look at how much they and Massachusetts actually get from the Federal Government:


Report shows how much Massachusetts relies on federal funds
AP,
February 16, 2017

BOSTON (AP) — A new report is detailing how much Massachusetts relies on federal dollars.

The liberal-leaning Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center estimates one in every four dollars in the state budget comes from federal funds — nearly $11 billion.

The money helps support more than 30 state agencies and departments.

The largest federal contribution to the state, Medicaid, helps pay for the MassHealth program that helps cover health care costs for low- and moderate-income people.

MassBudget President Noah Berger said the report’s goal is to highlight those programs that could face cutbacks under some of the actions being discussed by the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress.

A repeal of former President Barack Obama’s health care law, for example, could jeopardize as much as $1.82 billion in annual Medicaid funding." https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/02/16/report-shows-how-much-massachusetts-relies-on-federal-funds

As soon as Boston and the likes has to actually pay that themselves, watch how fast they become an "un-sanctuary" city.
 
you watch too many movies cawacko. I don't buy your whole "lived in boston for a couple of months story"

the vast majority of bostonians do not have any accents. And our weather is pretty much beautiful 3/4ths the year. Even snow is occasionally nice. We have the seasons. Boston in the fall? You kidding me? It's glorious. We have great summers and nice springs as well. Boston is constantly ranked as one of the best cities to live in. And we do not have ugly girls. We are a young youthful city with tons of hot 20 something chicks. You wish wherever you lived was as good as boston.
 
why do all these fucking idiots keep equating illegal and legal immigration? Why can't we have legal diversity? How many illegals are there anyway? I have never met an illegal. Makes me wonder if there is like this massive underground I am unaware of. Then again, I don't hang out with poor 3rd world trash
 
Grind, I played golf with a co-worker today who's from Boston. He's 25 years old and a snowflake. He grew up 35 miles south of Boston then went to Suffok. He has the accent and is an ahole
 
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