Lansing no longer a sanctuary city

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Lansing no longer a sanctuary city

The Lansing City Council backed out of its decision to declare itself a sanctuary city Wednesday evening, holding a vote to rescind the barely week-old resolution.

After hours of public comment, the council voted 5-2 to rescind the resolution containing a reference to sanctuary city passed April 3. Council member Jessica Yorko was not present for the vote.

The council members then decided not to take up a resolution reaffirming Lansing as a "Welcoming City" for immigrants.

Council member Kathie Dunbar, who was a main proponent of declaring Lansing a sanctuary city, was one of the members who voted against rescinding the resolution, joining council member Tina Houghton. She said she believed the resolution was well within legal bounds and should not have been changed.

"It's a darn shame that after appearing to have a backbone and actually taken a stand on something that really matters, folks have decided to throw it away," Dunbar said. "And the message that sends to folks is really sad."

But other members of the council were concerned adding "sanctuary city" to a resolution on immigration could negatively impact the city budget and could give people the wrong impression that the city of Lansing is offering protections it doesn't currently have.

"What bothers me and what concerns me and what goes to my soul...is do we give this false perception to people that there is something out there that is not there," said council member Carol Wood. Referring to the resolution that included the reference to making Lansing a sanctuary city, she said, "this paper won't make any difference" for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

[DBTrek]

What's crazy is . . . they're still a sanctuary city.
They've simply rescinded their announcement that they're a sanctuary city.

Really, I'm amazed at the number of governers, majors, and city council members across the US that are anxious to stand up and declare "We're on the side of illegal immigrants, f*** Americans and their laws".
How did that become politically viable?

What wizardry is afoot here - when the same party making hay 24/7 over how dangerous it is for the president or anyone he knows to be in contact with Russia is also proudly embracing the policy of "Everyone but America first"?

When Ed Murray went on his tirade about Seattle defying the Federal government and protecting illegals I was aghast. Like . .. you're the mayor of Seattle, not Juarez, right? Your position makes no damn sense as the representative of an American city.
So how do you con Americans into voting for you?

For instance: http://q13fox.com/2017/02/15/king-count ... sing-fear/

There's some sort of strange mind control going on, man. That has to be what's going on here.
Elected American representatives chomping at the bit to announce that they will actively work against America enforcing any kind of border policy. As if having a border makes us racist. As if every other nation on Earth does not have borders.

[Martin Hash]

Borders work against Equality.

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I can only conclude it's fear of "That's racist!!"

[Martin Hash]

No, really, "open borders" is Marxist mantra.