
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainy He said that his administration would not cooperate with American immigration and enforcement of customs law, commonly known as ICE.
“My administration will not cooperate with ICE,” said the mayor in response to the audience’s question during dinner at the Pa Press club on Monday. “We will do everything that is necessary for our city to be more welcome. We will build it on this. “
This is the answer to President Donald Trump Promise to deport immigrants who have illegally entered the United States. On Sunday, ICE arrested 956 people themselves, bringing the total number of arrests to over 2600 since the inauguration of Trump.
Cities in which arrests arose are Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego, Denver, Miami, Atlanta and several cities in Texas.
“Ice will not end the situation of a failed immigration policy,” Gainy continued. “What he intends to do is create more situations in which people are afraid, where people do not feel safe, where people will do things that they would not normally do. If the federal government wants to seriously approach what they want to do to reform immigration law, they must create a way to citizenship, and until they are ready to roll up their sleeves, just like mayors throughout America to change the dynamics of the city, change the dynamics of federal regulations which shows that you create a path. “
Gainy has avoided the question of whether he supports the proposed connection between American Stal and Nippon Steel, indicating that this is a question for Alleghena’s unit, not Pittsburgh. He proposed his support for the Director of the County Sara in love and the decision he makes in this matter.
He called non -city’s profit to pay a fair share instead of taxes.
“It’s not fair that I still have to talk or ask residents to wear a burden,” he said. “We were in talks with UPMC. We understand that at the end of the day everyone should pay their honest participation. They use our public security. They use our police, our fire, our EMS. We do not ask them to finance the budget. What took place about the value. There is nothing wrong with asking for a million dollars from the organization – non -profit units – which earns millions and millions of dollars a year. The question is not bad … not meeting this moment. “
Gainy also called the modern Pittsburgh as a technological city.
“You know, sometimes when I watch these ads, they still get smoke from steel, which leaves the packages. We are no longer a steel city. We are a technological city. In our city there are billions of dollars that went to infrastructure, all main headquarters of technology companies. Every technology company that wants to go its headquarters should see us. We are open to business. “
You want to change the rules on pistols, noting that “everything is changing”, including his ability to immerse basketball.
“You can’t get a weapon as if you could get a weapon on the street (now), when I was a child, everything changes. The children did not wear weapons, as if wearing weapons (now). I used to be able to immerse basketball. I can’t immerse now. Everything is changing. So why do the weapon regulations have to remain the same? “
The 54-year-old former representative
“My administration decided to choose growth,” said Gainy, “And the reason why we chose the growth is that the growth is better than success. We need to focus on development. If we achieve growth, we will be successful. “
He expressed his pride that Fitch Ratings raised the overall bond of Pittsburgh’s obligations from Aa- to Aa- a sign of financial stability, which leads to lower costs of loans for the city, while Moody changed the city’s bond to “positive” from “stable”. “
“That’s what I meant growth,” he said. “We know that our path to growth focuses on increasing affordable apartments, so that we do not have to make a choice between development and the one showing that we can keep the house in Pittsburgh. We never want to lose that Pittsburgh is at home. When you come to our city, you feel like you were home. “
Gainy also talked about the efforts of his administration to serve those who were ignored.
“We have invested in communities that did not see investments such as Hazelwood, Historic Hill District and Allentown, which have not seen investments for years. We also created generational wealth for families that were historically cut off from the housing market. “
He also considers the upcoming NFL draft on April 23-25 ​​as an opportunity to capture his city.
“It is a huge opportunity for our city to present what we already know that Pittsburgh is a great place to live, work and play,” said the mayor. “It is an exciting time that we meet and celebrate our community and its potential. We are grateful for the opportunity to organize this prestigious event and I want to take a moment to thank Roonys for everything they did to help bring this project to the city of Pittsburgh. This is one more step to revitalize our center and show the world that Pittsburgh is suitable for investment and somewhere people can call home. “
Gainy, who is looking for re -election, is questioned in the basic democratic by the Allegheny Ferrity Controller Corey O’Connor. Republican Tony Morenowho was defeated by Gainy Last Cycle, he also stated that he was going to escape.