Philadelphia, which proudly stood among the strongest cities of the sanctuary, formally rejected the name.
This is now a “welcoming city”.
According to the best lawyer of the mayor of Cherlle L. Parker, who confirmed what was a sluggish but dramatic change in labeling, because Trump’s administration is falling into the city. Parker administration officials said, however, that policies requiring justice employees to treat immigrants, like everyone, remain in place.
Philadelphia was named on Thursday evening on the internal security list, which identified hundreds of so -called jurisdiction of the sanctuary, completely threatened with the loss of billions of dollars in federal assistance. Cities and poviats were also called in the Metro region in Philadelphia, some of them confused how they got there, they never accepted immigration policies.
Legal battles will certainly occur because the Trump administration accuses these places of “deliberate and shameful” complex enforcement of federal immigration regulations.
Internal security officials again argued on Thursday that the jurisdictions of the sanctuary protect criminals, undocumented immigrants from the consequences, while putting law enforcement officers.
Officials in many of these places say it’s stupid, that they just decide not to spend local tax dollars to support Ice do their job. Undoczumeted immigrants living in the so -called cities of the sanctuary are not protected against federal immigration enforcement, or from arrest and accusations by the local police for local crimes.
But throughout the country, the “sanctuary” is becoming more and more toxic, and more jurisdiction withdraws from this term and declares “guest”. This is a clear tonal change for democratic city leaders, in which the earlier response to Trump was often louder and more assertive defense of their policy.
Mayor Baltimore Brandon Scott, whose city was also listed on the list, insisted that Baltimore was not a city of the sanctuary, because there is no jurisdiction towards prisoners. None of the five democrats representing Philadelphia and its poviats collars in Congress, nor a democratic senator John Fetterman did not answer the request for a comment on the name on the list.
Parker administration officials avoided the word “city of the sanctuary”, a mayor criticized by supporters of immigrants who called her to take up deafening and aggressive defense.
During the administration of Trump on Thursday evening, lawyer Philadelphia City Renee Garcia, a leading appointed by Parker, said: “Philadelphia is not a city of the sanctuary. We are a friendly city.”
Peter Pedemonti, executive director of New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, a spokeswoman, said that the city administration’s actions are more vital than what he calls them.
“What is necessary and it is important to become heavily at the executive order that prevents cooperation with ICE,” he said. “This is important for families, for people of faith. We don’t need them to fight for a name, we need them to fight for [Trump] policy.”
Parker’s administration said this month that it could argue with any attempt to cut federal funds and “is a strong attitude,” said Pedemonti.
“Regardless of the name, they must make sure that people and families in Philadelphia know that the rules are in place and will be firm to defend them.”
Undothered resident “directly”
Trump tries to realize what intends to be the greatest effort of deportation in America’s history, trying to remove millions of people – and trying to force the state and local authorities to support him.
The United States is home to about 13 million undocumented people, roughly Pennsylvania’s population. But immigration and customs enforcement, the main agency, whose task is deportations, employs around 21,000 throughout the country, including all, from administrators to secretary.
On Friday in Philadelphia, people who are the final goals of Trump’s deportation plans – undocumented immigrants – reacted to their up-to-date list with Definance and tears.
“Well, it’s stressful, but I can’t live with such a great fear,” said a 21-year-old woman from Venezuela, raising her hands when she cleaned the tables in an Italian restaurant. “It seems [President Trump] He thinks that we are all criminals and this is not the case. … sees one and makes us all pay. “
A woman who agreed to interrogation, if her name was suspended, said that she works over 40 hours a week to support her family at home in food.
“At that moment it depends on God,” she said. “If [Trump] He will throw us all, let it be so. But he should think about all the cartridges we bring with us. “
A bakery employee on the market said that he almost did not let into the list in connection with the release of the list.
“It’s unfair,” said a 52 -year -old woman from Mexico, describing how she works seven days a week to support her family and hope that we have someday having our own business.
“Mr. Trump, we are not all criminals,” she begged, stopping her tears. “It seems to be an attempt to pressure on the city to abandon us when we just try to work hard, which in consequence drives this country.
Kenney defends the sanctuary
Philadelphia has long been a strong leader in the sanctuary, because former mayor Jim Kenney accepted the battle with the first administration of Trump.
The famous Irish mayor was captured to the video, dancing the device and calling “Sanctuary City!” After winning the large victory of the Federal Court in 2018, which said that the president could not end federal subsidies based on how to deal with the city’s immigrants.
From January, when asked about the status of the city sanctuary, the Parker administration repeated that Kenney in 2016. Cooperation on ice remains in place. This order orders the city authorities not to honor detained by ice, that they keep people in custody, unless the documentation is accompanied by a signed court order.
Kenney initiated several other related policies regarding Trump’s efforts so that the local police would enforce federal immigration regulations, throwing ice out of the database, which, he thought, the agency uses to find undocumented people, and with the exception of city employees before asking residents about their immigration status.
Without the solution to each specific action, the city spokesman said at the end of Thursday that all previous immigration policies remain in force by Parker.
But until Garcia spoke, the change of the city was never publicly announced.
It is not clear whether the name change will help Philadelphia or other jurisdictions to escape Trump’s anger. But this is Tack City leaders who try to keep about $ 2 billion in federal financing.
The rhetorical change is not only to avoid Trump’s aiming – although some people think that it can help – but be a more accurate characteristics of local politicians, which often obtain a city marked as a “sanctuary”.
“Philadelphia is a warm city,” said a member of the city council of Rue Landau in a statement on Thursday evening. “It was our position, and this list is Trump’s attempt to instill greater fear and uncertainty of the immigrant community.”
Political leaders answer
Philadelphia was among 16 cities and poviats of Pennsylvania listed on the Trump’s administration list of the jurisdiction of sanctuaries, places that should be formally notified of what the president calls them non -compliance with the federal immigration law.
The list was published as ice announced The main changes in leadership and the White House official said that the administration wanted to significantly escalate daily immigration arrests.
Trump won Pennsylvania in the 2024 election and improved his margins in Philadelphia, thanks to the same campaign textbook, which initiated him to the office in 2016: attacking democratic cities and immigrants. Edition of a formal list calling hundreds of places across 30 states Expands these efforts.
“This is part of a larger strategy and pattern that we saw again and again, and this is the operate of fear,” said Jasmine Rivera, executive director of Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition. “What we heard on the campaign trail is an extension of who is in the crosshairs.”
The list included Montgomery, Delaware and Chester, like the cities of Pittsburgh, Gettysburg, State College and York. New Jersey was appointed a sanctuary state. Burlington, Cumberland, Camden, Trenton and a dozen other garden State cities were also cited.
“It is deeply disturbing that Camden is distinguished as a city of the sanctuary, said on Friday the president of the city council Angel Fuentes.
He believes that the city that once considered, but never approved the resolution in the city of the Sanctuary, is simply because it is diverse, mainly the Spanish community. Fuentes said that the definition of the sanctuary “less concerns politics, and more about the progress of harmful narratives and punishment of community.”
On Thursday evening, the democratic commissioners of Montgomery Neil Makhija and Jamila Winder tried to “defend the policy of the sanctuary” by signing the author’s statement to a group called the coalition of local governments.
Over 50 representatives of municipalities signed in response to the publication of her Trump administration list, in a statement that officials “oppose illegal attempts of Trump administration in order to force the enforcement of the federal immigration law by cutting financing.”
The coalition said that the sanctuary’s policy is legal and makes people safer, and Trump’s executive orders are a tactic of fear.
“To make it clear,” said the document, “what is happening is an abnormally illegal attempt to avoid congress and Borly local governments to perform ICE work, threatening to limit billions of federal financing.”
Personnel writers Alfred Lubrano and Jesse Bunch contributed to this article.
