Sanctuary Cities
Must Be Exempted from Civil Rights Laws
Breitbart,
by
Neil Munro
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
2/10/2026 11:21:45 AM
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
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 2/10/2026 11:42:07 AM (No. 2067074)
If those laws are hurting those 9 states, then perhaps those laws should be discontinued in EVERY State?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
hershey 2/10/2026 11:54:48 AM (No. 2067080)
They are getting caught out, so they whine...want some cheese with that???
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 2/10/2026 12:30:25 PM (No. 2067092)
Nope. All the laws WILL be applied, everywhere. Crooked, corrupt, criminal Dems just love all their illegal everything. Illegal people, illegal fake businesses stealing government money, and they want illegal racial discrimination to be OK.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jasmine 2/10/2026 12:41:18 PM (No. 2067102)
FTA: “We are now expected to absorb the fiscal consequences of [federal] enforcement activities..."
Finally! Immigration is a federal responsibility. For years, corrupt states have gotten away with favoring illegal aliens at the expense of their own citizens. Note that corrupt leaders in sanctuary states and cities have never had a problem with shifting the "financial consequences" of imported crime and poverty to US taxpayers all across our country. Every state in the union is suffering from major financial and safety consequences because Dems (and worse) arranged to unleash a flood of unvetted illegals on our soil. It's only fair that those states now deal with the consequences they knowingly inflicted on the rest of our country.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Luandir 2/10/2026 1:21:05 PM (No. 2067120)
Pound sand.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
danu 2/10/2026 1:21:51 PM (No. 2067121)
O-M-G ! step away from the hookah you worthless, lawless, thieving, corruptocrats.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 2/10/2026 1:23:34 PM (No. 2067122)
They ask for the "national laws that protect Americans’ civil rights, labor, housing, and anti-fraud laws" be not enforced in their third world hell hole states.
No....we must INCREASE enforcement of those laws in their "sanctuary states". MORE protection of Americans, and more deportations of illegals and arrest of criminals.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 2/10/2026 1:49:07 PM (No. 2067132)
This 'demand' is only to allow them to continue their current illegal behaviors. But it takes a special kind of hootspa to make the demand publicly and loud.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 2/10/2026 2:12:41 PM (No. 2067141)
Hey Dem Leaders, refresh my memory. Who let all these people in to begin with?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
sw penn 2/10/2026 3:21:10 PM (No. 2067159)
Ramp It Up
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jalo1951 2/10/2026 4:21:28 PM (No. 2067183)
In other words just let us do whatever the hell we want and leave us alone.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kdog 2/10/2026 4:34:27 PM (No. 2067189)
Not mentioned in the article is that these very states are also mandating $15-$20 an hour minimum wages! So apparently the minimum wages are only for employers who follow the law and only employ eligible workers? or is it all just moral posturing for the national stage and NO ONE is paying minimum wage?? The hypocracy is unbelievable.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/10/2026 4:38:26 PM (No. 2067190)
No
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 2/10/2026 5:44:31 PM (No. 2067202)
They don't seem to understand either the rule of law or what a good economy is.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/10/2026 8:03:47 PM (No. 2067225)
Liberal logic. We have to ignore the laws that apply to citizens so that those here illegally can continue to do illegal things. BUT law enforcement (ICE) must ignore federal laws when it comes to illegals and we will place additional restrictions on law enforcement enforcing laws against illegals ( but citizens still must follow laws unless harassing federal law enforcement). These states/cities must be one of Dante's circles of Hell and the state leaders & AGs are Satan's helpers. We are trapped in it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/10/2026 9:34:20 PM (No. 2067260)
The Democrats sure are sounding like they did in the runup to the U.S. Civil War... must be something in their DNA.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JimBob 2/10/2026 9:39:47 PM (No. 2067262)
Laws for THEE but Not for ME!
Gee, wasn't it just a week ago that the 'Rats were chanting "No One Is Above The Law."
How quickly they change their opinion!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 2/11/2026 12:47:18 AM (No. 2067295)
Wait a minute.....
"Democratic State Leaders: Sanctuary Cities Must Be Exempted from Civil Rights Laws>/i>
Taking that title literally would mean that those states could enslave anyone, take all the hard won "civil rights' that everyone has been able to enjopy since the US Constitution and all of its Amendments were written. Heh; It might be worth it if the 19th Amendment could no longer be enforced.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/11/2026 7:40:21 AM (No. 2067342)
These whiners had absolutely no problem with federally-imposed DEI laws. The untalented and the mediocre suddenly had a pathway to the top that they could have never achieved without that government ladder. Unfortunately they could not dance on the pedestal once they were put there.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
janjan 2/11/2026 7:52:07 AM (No. 2067345)
Did I understand this correctly? They want ICE to leave so the Somalis can go back to defrauding the taxpayers for millions and of course circle some back to the Democrats campaign coffers? Otherwise their economy will tank? This is the argument they’re actually trying to make? And people vote for this. Unbelievable.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chance_232 2/11/2026 9:00:12 AM (No. 2067371)
They expect to be exempted from the very laws that their own party championed and passed. You can't make this up.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/11/2026 9:05:06 AM (No. 2067373)
Democrats returning to their roots - slavery. And they want us to accommodate them? I don't think so...
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mamabear 2/11/2026 9:19:57 AM (No. 2067378)
Why hasn’t the concept of 'sanctuary' been challenged at the Supreme Court?? How can an American town, city, county, or state legally declare itself opposed to Federal Law? And how can such a stance be supported by the Constitution?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
LWGII 2/11/2026 9:42:19 AM (No. 2067391)
Today I Learned-- Neo Con is short for Neo Confederate.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/11/2026 10:16:21 AM (No. 2067407)
While the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats want to abolish ICE, all immigration law enforcement throughout the USA, and also do away with the Federal immigration laws that were constitutionally passed by Congress that currently provide that all illegal aliens, those here now, and those who would gain entry to the USA in the future, are subject to arrest and deportation; but instead can just stay in the USA and be transitioned into becoming unlimited millions of future leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrat supporters and voters. If the USA is to keep its sovereignty as a constitutional republic and continue to be a developed country, and not be transitioned into some sort of future socialist utopia, those leftist Democrat dreams cannot be allowed to become reality.
Common sense will tell you that once the word got out to the wider World that the USA was no longer enforcing immigration laws that foreign countries all over the world, some of who have customs, ideologies, and traditions completely different than such customs and traditions that are historic to the USA, would facilitate the travel and entry to the USA of massive, sometimes criminal, and other unwanted populations from foreign countries to the USA, no doubt many times larger than the current illegal alien population that is estimated to be somewhere between ten and twenty million mostly Third World origin poor and uneducated people, many who would intend to establish their own ethnic, ideologically absolutist (such as Islamic), or racially based communities and have no intention of assimilating into contemporary US society, that no doubt would include covert foreign intelligence and military units sent on missions to disrupt the future USA as much as possible, as the country is being transitioned by the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats into some sort of future socialist utopia. Clearly if the current USA was flooded as above with foreign origin people, that whatever type country displaces the current USA would never be able to establish effective immigration laws on into the future. Just saying!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 2/11/2026 11:20:18 AM (No. 2067433)
The nerve of these treasurers of 16 states demanding to be exempt from civil rights laws.
It looks like they are demanding to be LAWLESS. And they're not even shy about it.
Evil people are getting more in your face these days. No shame. No morals. No God.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
NotaBene 2/11/2026 11:58:17 AM (No. 2067454)
To make it worse, once the Illegal Aliens are established in their sanctuaries they get Diversity, Equity and Inclusion benefits well beyond Welfare and Food Stamps. Their children get preferential admission to State colleges and full free tuition rides. Alien remigration is beneficial because it improves schools, lowers rents, and increases wages. Many of these people do not understand English, read or write, or have ever driven a car.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 2/11/2026 12:37:01 PM (No. 2067473)
I cannot believe that these morons would think and say something like that. I guess that's why they're called DimocRATS.
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