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jpak

(41,758 posts) Sat Apr 13, 2019, 09:48 AM Apr 2019

Portland mayor: 'If Trump wants to send more immigrants our way, bring them on' (Maine)

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/04/12/news/portland/portland-mayor-if-trump-wants-to-send-more-immigrants-our-way-bring-them-on/?_ga=2.154519920.950799309.1555163084-820249076.1555163084

In a tweet Friday, President Donald Trump said his administration is strongly considering a policy to send detained immigrants to “sanctuary cities” that protect undocumented immigrants from deportation.

The mayor of Maine’s largest city says Portland will take them.

“If he wants to send more immigrants our way, bring them on,” says Mayor Ethan Strimling.

Strimling notes that in Portland, city policy bars employees, including the police, from asking someone for his or her immigration status unless there is “reasonable suspicion” that they are in violation. That may not be as substantial of an open-door policy as in some cities, such as San Francisco, Strimling says, but Portland should be considered a sanctuary city with a small “s”.

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