The city of Pennsylvania drops the sanctuary against threats of federal funding
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The reputation of mass deportation of President Donald Trump frightened the leaders in at least one city of the east coast of the major democrat, while its mayor and the municipal council suddenly withdrawn a vote provided for the approval of a “welcoming city” order of the order of the day.
Mayor Sal Panto Jr., Easton, Pennsylvania, a moderate democrat, has moved to aim at the vote of the order of the agenda, with all, except her godfather, the advisor Taiba Sultana, supporting the decision, according to Lehigh Valley News. A member was absent.
The order would have given the city – 80 miles west of New York and 60 miles north of Philadelphia – a designation shared by Chicago, where managers use the term “welcoming city” instead of “Sanctuary City” more politically loaded.
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Sultana told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that values should come first and deplore the decision.
“The Council’s decision comes from a place of pragmatism rather than principle … But the majority considered that the official adoption of the city’s bill” now effectively welcomed a target on our city-a target for an administration which has demonstrated a desire to armor federal funds against political opponents, “she said.
In recent weeks, the Attorney General Pam Bondi has threatened civil action and the restraint of federal financing of sanctuary cities or municipalities that do not align with federal immigration law – and the leaders of Easton did not want this kind of attention.
“This threat, although legally doubtful, is very real. It endorses the critical funding on which our residents, including our undocumented neighbors who contribute enormously to our economy, depend for essential services such as education and public security,” said Sultana.
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Easton is not the only one to weigh his options. Other cities of Lehigh Valley have faced similar debates. In February, Bethlehem Voisin also decided not to adopt a similar order, while the Democratic Mayor of the Christmas City convinced the municipal council against him.
“We recognize that while many cities seek to respond to recent threats of deportation by creating a” welcoming order “… In fact, many of these practices have been in place for years,” said Mayor J. William Reynolds said at the time.
Allentown – The third city of Pennsylvania – went in the other direction, codifying a long -standing policy prohibiting local resources from being used to enforce the federal immigration law. A municipal councilor says the vote did not create a “sanctuary” but presented a “guideline (to) know where we are and … what we can and cannot do”.
Municipal councilor Frank Pintabone told Lehigh Valley News that the “welcoming” prescription had sought to “solve a problem that does not exist”, stressing a much heavier ice activity in Alentown against only two detentions so far in Easton.
Panto said that Easton remains a “welcoming city” in a proverbial sense and does not need such a nickname:
“We have welcomed all immigrants. I think our file shows it.”
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Easton, on the Delaware river and the New Jersey State Line, as we can see when descending the hill towards Route 611 and Larry Holmes Drive. (Reuters / Brian Snyder)
An official of the GOP in the county of Northampton – whose parents legally immigrated to Easton de Cuba and in Austria – criticized the idea of a “welcoming city” or a sanctuary prescription, noting that his family was already welcomed upon arrival.
The official told Fox News Digital that his father came to Easton in 1959, returned briefly to Cuba to see Fidel Castro overthrowing the government and I decided: “I withdraw the H — from here.”
