Portland Goes All In On Refusing To Work With Federal Immigration Authorities

Portland, Maine seems like a great place for the next big immigration operation

Portland limits immigration enforcement assistance, going beyond other cities

Portland further restricted local assistance with federal immigration enforcement, even more so than other Maine cities in response to President Donald Trump’s operation in the state this winter.

Similar to ordinances passed in Rockland and Lewiston, the Portland City Council amended its city code Monday night to ban employees and resources from being used to assist or cooperate with any federal agency in any immigration enforcement operation, except where legally required to do so by law or court order.

However, Portland’s ordinance goes a bit further by adding more restrictions for city employees that are only applicable to police under a new state law, such as preventing them from using immigration authorities as interpreters for local law enforcement.

Several cities in Maine have considered limiting cooperation with immigration enforcement in response to Trump’s mass deportation agenda, specifically since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s large-scale operation in January resulted in the detention of Maine residents who were pursuing lawful immigration processes and had no criminal records. Bangor and Waterville are currently deliberating their own ordinances.

Get this: if Portland and the other cities would hand over the illegal aliens arrested for breaking the law to ICE with no fuss, heck, get proactive and call them and hand them over, then there would be less chance of operations that will scoop up those who simply broke the law in coming to the US illegally. But, you know, good luck, this could be them

Trump immigration czar pledges punishment if NY lawmakers limit cooperation with ICE

Republicans are firing warning shots at Gov. Kathy Hochul and other Democratic state lawmakers: If you pass new laws to protect immigrants across New York, there will be consequences.

Tom Homan, an upstate New York native who serves as President Donald Trump’s border czar, said he would respond to any new law by sending more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the Empire State.

“We’re going to flood the zone. You’re going to see more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen before,” Homan said Tuesday at a border security conference in Phoenix, seen in a video posted to social media by a Newsmax reporter and widely cited in media reports Tuesday. “So congratulations, because when we send these teams out there, we’ll find a bad guy. Most times we do. And when we find a bad guy, he’s with others, others who may not be a priority target, but they’re in the country illegally.”

Why do Democrats want to protect so many criminals? It’s not just because Trump is in office, they did this while Obama and Biden were in office.