House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco was among those the White House wanted to target, according to DHS officials. “This was just a suggestion that was floated and rejected, which ended any further discussion,” the White House statement said. “Each year, sanctuary cities release thousands of known criminal aliens from their custody and right back into the community. The White House discussed the immigrant release idea as a way to punish Democrats standing in the way of funding additional detention beds. The second option was to bus migrants apprehended at the border to sanctuary cities, such as New York, Chicago and San Francisco.

Source: Washington Post April 12, 2019 00:15 UTC