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Trump’s Denouncement Of Sanctuary Cities Targets Police: Tim Kaine

Trump’s Denouncement Of Sanctuary Cities Targets Police: Tim Kaine

According to Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, Donald Trump harms police officers with his denouncement of sanctuary cities as a tenet of his immigration platform. Kaine, based on his own experience as mayor of Richmond and governor of Virginia, said Trump is “basically […] going after police chiefs.”

“And I trust police chiefs in terms of knowing what should be done to keep their communities safer and police departments and mayors a lot more than I trust Donald Trump,” Kaine continued.

Trump has voiced his opposition to sanctuary cities before, but in Wednesday night’s speech on immigration once again stated his goal of ending practice.

On CNN’s “New Day,” Kaine said he had dealt with the interplay between law enforcement and undocumented immigrants in his tenure as governor:

Let me give you an example from when I was governor. There was a program back then where some cities were joining in a program with [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to essentially be deputized to do the work of the immigration service. My law enforcement officials, who are tough law enforcement people, came to me and said do not do this, because if the immigrant community starts to sees us as immigration officials, they won’t call and complain about crimes in their neighborhood, they won’t be witnesses in cases.

Although Trump and the Republican establishment haven’t agreed on much, at least a few GOP politicians back Trump’s view on sanctuary cities.

After Senate Democrats blocked a bill that would have forced sanctuary cities to cooperate with the federal government on deportations, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) also called for the end of sanctuary cities: “With 11 million illegal immigrants in our country, there will be some who are violent criminals. It makes no sense to give those violent criminals any safe haven.”

Photo: Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) speaks at K’NEX in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, July 29, 2016.  REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

Trump On Immigration: Team Claims He’s Been ‘Remarkably Consistent’

Trump On Immigration: Team Claims He’s Been ‘Remarkably Consistent’

Despite significant waffling back and forth on his immigration plan (or lack thereof), Trump’s team says he’s been “remarkably consistent”  about his call to end illegal immigration and for the necessity of a physical border wall.

Jason Miller, senior communications adviser for the Trump campaign, told Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends that rumors floating around about Trump’s wall being “virtual” were not true. Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York, said on the same program earlier this week that Trump’s calls for a wall would include a “virtual” wall.

In recent weeks, Trump has appeared at times to soften his stance on immigration. He then immediately backtracks, however — often doubling down on earlier comments cementing a severe policy that mandates mass deportations and a physical wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

According to Miller, the question of whether the wall will be a physical structure has already been settled, though he was not entirely certain of the specifics: “I wouldn’t say that I’m the best person to be the actual adviser as far as how exactly you build the wall, but there will be a physical wall.”

Miller continued: “We’re going to build the wall, we’re going to secure our borders, we’re going to enforce our immigration laws. We’re going to end sanctuary cities. We’re going to pass e-Verify and uphold the Constitution. That’s going to make a big difference in this country.”

Trump himself later tweeted the reiteration of his plan to build a physical wall:

Trump has a speech planned for Wednesday night in Phoenix, at which point, according to Miller, he will “give a little more broader vision of what we’re going to do.”

Photo: Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump formally accepts the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri