Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Thursday signed an executive order for transferring all remaining U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees out of the city jail and declaring that Atlanta will no longer hold anyone for the federal agency.
The Democratic mayor's move follows a separate executive order from June that blocked the jail from taking in any new ICE detainees amid enforcement of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy on the southwest border, which split up many immigrant families. Bottoms has vigorously objected to that federal policy.
"Atlanta will no longer be complicit in a policy that intentionally inflicts misery on a vulnerable population without giving any thought to the horrific fallout," Bottoms told reporters moments before signing her executive order. "As the birthplace of the civil rights movement we are called to be better than this."
Secretary of State Brian Kemp, Georgia's Republican nominee for governor, criticized the mayor's move in a statement he released Thursday afternoon.
"The City of Atlanta should focus on cleaning up corruption and stopping crime -- not creating more of it," he said.
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12 comments:
She should be put in jail - and the state should lose all federal funding...of everything!
"As the birthplace of the civil rights movement we are called to be better than this."
This is not a civil rights issue. It is about law breakers and the appropriate word is illegal.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
Typical black Libtard. This is what happens when whites move out of cities. It's called White Flight and the blacks take over and remove anything referencing white people.
civil rights are for citizens these are illegals. It is really disturbing how stupid some elected officials are!
Set up illegals camp sites right in her front yard!
Didn't we once have a civil war that decided that cities and states had to follow the rules and laws of the federal government?
Not if they make their own laws
The secretary of state is right we cannot take on anymore refugees across any borders. In all our recent months there were a large percentage that it was proven that were in drug trafficking , murder that were being detained and even some that were allowed in we have see some of those commit murders already on American citizens. We cannot police the whole world or take in every one fleeing a country the problem is the world's not just this country.
It seems unfortunately as time goes on that the laws we have on the books if we don't enforce them they are not worth the paper they are written on. This same thing holds true with our laws here in Salisbury we have codes and violations going back decades we don't enforce either update them to comply with what we currently need or throw them out. Enforcement is the problem and I don't mean the officers but the people in office who let things go and just wring their hands, and just throw the reports in file #13.
No more money for Atlanta; she'll be playing a different tune.
Study after study shows the following:
There’s a similar pattern in two other places where Mr. Trump has recently feuded with local leaders: Oakland, Calif., and Lawrence, Mass. He described both cities as breeding grounds for drugs and crime brought by immigrants. But Oakland, like Orange County, has had increasing immigration and falling crime. In Lawrence, though murder and robbery rates grew, overall violent crime rates still fell by 10 percent.
In general, the study’s data suggests either that immigration has the effect of reducing average crime, or that there is simply no relationship between the two, and that the 54 areas in the study where both grew were instances of coincidence, not cause and effect. This was a consistent pattern in each decade from 1980 to 2016, with immigrant populations and crime failing to grow together.
I suggest that all of you complaining use your time to study the facts. Better yet, volunteer at a local school or the Salvation Army or Halo. Perhaps that would change your point of view.
I suggest you look up the word "illegal" and apply it accordingly. Immigrants are a different story.
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