San Francisco: Campaign Rhetoric and Campaign Events

san francisco: His campaign rhetoric notwithstanding, Trump is unwise to pick a divisive fight impelled by the fiction that the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants constitute a community of predatory and violent criminals, according to Hamilton Spectator. His inflated rhetoric on that point served to rile up his campaign events. Mayors in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco and leaders of other localities vowed defiance, lending the dispute the air of a standoff between tough guys. As a tactic in governance, or to promote public safety, it is likely to be less effective. In 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia ruled that detention requests made by the federal government to localities - specifically, that they hold undocumented immigrants - are just that requests, not commands. The president is also on shaky legal ground to demand that local authorities, including police and jail officials, enforce federal immigration law, just as he would by insisting they enforce the federal tax code, federal environmental regulations or federal food and drug rules. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.