Sanctuary cities, states including NY are like Confederate rebels and should lose all fed funding if they dont change: ex-gov

Defiant “sanctuary” cities and states such as New York are acting like Confederate rebels and should lose “all’’ of their federal funding if they refuse to deport illegal migrants, ex-Gov.George Pataki said Sunday.“No more business as usual,” Pataki said on WABC 770 AM radio’s “Cats Roundtable” program.

“If you’re going to have a country based on the rule of law, it has to apply equally everywhere.“Cities and states that pretend that the federal rules don’t apply to them are just violating the constitution, violating our freedom,” the ex-New York gov said.“I would hope that President Trump with this Congress will just defund any city or state that refuses to follow the federal laws.“Trump must make them follow the law or cut off all federal funding.

I think that would be a very positive step to bring America together.”Pataki said New York and other local and state elected officials who defy immigration laws are acting like Confederacy-backers who provoked the Civil War in the 1800s by trying to secede from the Union.Today, so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions refuse to honor or limit US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer requests to turn over illegal migrants.Pataki, the three-term Empire State governor from 1995 to 2006, told host John Catsimatidis, “We had a civil war over this” kind of thing.“The South lost,” he said.“It became plain that under the Constitution, every city, every state has to follow the law of this country.

New York City is not right now.San Francisco, Los Angeles, California – other places aren’t.”He noted that the New York City Council approved “sanctuary” laws that restrict local law enforcement and jail officials from cooperating and turning over even undocumented criminal migrants.During a recent meeting with Trump’s border czar Tom Homan, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he was eyeing an executive order to “unravel” the local confusing rules and policies for...