Summary
Democratic-led cities and states are mobilizing to resist Trump’s planned mass deportations, with measures like sanctuary policies, legal challenges, and public opposition.
Cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia have vowed to shield undocumented residents, and LA’s school district declared itself a migrant sanctuary.
Trump plans to sign executive orders and withhold federal grants to enforce deportations, but legal obstacles are expected, as seen during his first term.
Opponents argue deportations harm communities and families, while Trump allies assert a mandate for strict immigration enforcement.
You have to, though.
It won’t stop with immigrants. Once the apparatus is already set up, they’ll use it against anyone who tries to stand in their way.
“First they came for the,” and all that. It’s better if it’s organized through an armed local government, instead of just some kind of pocket of freelance resistance that’s easy to paint as criminal. But you have to. There is no other option.
I think they will be prepared to make dire examples of any state that so openly defies them. Insurrection Act, federal troops losing all pretext of “law enforcement action” and just going apeshit, finally ending with the arrest and/or execution of governors, state legislators, and anyone else involved they can get their hands on.
I think they are planning to try that, yes. It’s not guaranteed to succeed, but cowardly acquiescence born out of fear is one easy way it can be made to work.
I’m not saying to cower, I’m just pointing this out because a lot of people, likely including the leaders of these states, are still of the mindset that the proper, and therefore only, path of “resistance” is through lawsuits and picket-sign demonstrations.
I fear that they are going to be utterly shocked, and more importantly, unprepared, if and when the reaction to this “resistance” is lawless mass incarceration and murder.