The Department of Homeland Security has quietly removed from the web a list of 500 sanctuary jurisdictions around the country it accused of “shamefully obstructing” the Trump administration’s deportation plans after pushback from some GOP strongholds that were included on it.
Cities, counties and states across the U.S. were targeted by the department in the list, including those who claimed to be outspoken supporters of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
The National Sheriffs’ Association also issued a statement Saturday criticizing the list, saying that it “lacks transparency and accountability.” Its president, Sheriff Kieran Donahue, said that the list was created without any input from sheriffs and “violated the core principles of trust, cooperation and partnership with fellow law enforcement.”
The list was taken down over the weekend and the original link to the web page now reads: “Page not found.”
Is there anything they can’t royally fuck up?
With an endless list of possibilities, no.
The theory I heard for some of this is: if you remember a few years ago some of them called themselves “second amendment sanctuary cities” to lampoon others etc etc. One guy who was part of that said that he thought maybe they used ai somehow and there’s no way ai would understand the nuance that they meant.
I’d say this can hurt them, but only a little. These are locales that will always vote for him, but being accused of being the thing that they hate will be a little annoying. Also why use ai if they indeed did? Are they stupid? Yes, but they’ve been able to get humans to do things for years. They’ve already grown lazy and reliant on the new hotness?
