, Columnist
Trump Can Wear Down Sanctuary Cities
The administration, by exaggerating crime, is likely to win a war of attrition against immigrant havens.
Drawing lines.
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Supporters of the sanctuary movement around the U.S. believe they have morality on their side. The deportation regime unleashed by President Donald Trump is largely indiscriminate.
In its short, arbitrary span, it has targeted a longtime resident and mother of American children in Phoenix. It has imprisoned (and perhaps slandered) a young man in Washington state who was protected under the executive action for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, which was signed by President Barack Obama and has yet to be rescinded by Trump.