Democratic State Leaders: Sanctuary Cities Must Be Exempted from Civil Rights Laws
Numerous Democratic leaders say their high-migration, low-wage sanctuary city economies are crashing because President Donald Trump is requiring them to comply with national labor laws.
“We are now expected to absorb the fiscal consequences of [federal] enforcement activities,” the treasurers of 16 states wrote to President Trump. “This is not acceptable.”
The treasurers of Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, Minnesota, and nine other states are asking the federal government to exempt them from national laws that protect Americans’ civil rights, labor, housing, and anti-fraud laws.
“We urge your administration to immediately scale back enforcement activities causing this harm and to ensure the economic stability our communities require,” the treasurers wrote.
The sudden re-application of federal law is a huge shock to the Democrats’ law-exempt “Sanctuary Cities,” said Bill Glahn, at the Center of the American Experiment in Minnesota:
You create the sanctuary economy, and then the rug gets pulled out from under you – the federal government will no longer send you those billions that you’re given to the fraudsters, and the government pulls out those illegal immigrants because they don’t belong there. Now they’re not there to collect welfare money, and they’re not there to spend the money that they [used to] get, and the whole house of cards will collapse.
Meanwhile, Trump is zig-zagging the nation towards a growth economy built on trade, innovation, and productivity.
“We’re going to need robots … to make our economy run because we do not have enough people,” he told Breitbart News in August, adding:
So we have to get efficient … we’ll probably add to [the existing workforce] through robotically—it’s going to be robotically … It’s going to be big. Then, somebody is going to have to make the robots. The whole thing, it feeds on itself … we’re going to streamline things. We need efficiency.
The productivity strategy is very different from the Democrats’ favored economic strategy of Extraction Migration.
The Sanctuary City Economic Model
Sanctuary Cities create revenue for local governments, investors, and CEOs by creating an economy of illegal-migrnat workers, consumers, and renters. The migrants are paid little — but they are also much better paid and safer than in their homeland, and the state government provides many benefits, such as education for their children and healthcare.
Migrants gain from the Democrats’ Sanctuary Cities economic model even as Americans in those cities lose their civil right to a level playing field economy where they are not discriminated against as they compete for decent wages and housing. For example, median rents rose to $16,500 in 2024 amid an average income of $52,000. Roughly speaking, three full-time, minimum wage jobs are needed to afford a two-bedroom apartment in Minneapolis, according to a far-left group, the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
Trump’s enforcement is now ending the Sanctuary Cities’ exemptions from the popular laws that protect Americans in their national market for wages and homes.
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