Thread: Oakland mayor fires back at Trump: ‘It’s my duty to protect my residents’

Oakland mayor fires back at Trump: ‘It’s my duty to protect my residents’

By Josh Delk - 05/19/18 09:25 AM EDT

The mayor of Oakland, Calif., on Friday defended her intervention in immigration-related arrests that President Trump has called an obstruction of justice.

In a weekend op-ed for The Washington Post, Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) claimed she was upholding her "duty" to her residents by warning illegal immigrants in the city of an incoming federal immigration raid in February.

"As mayor, it’s my duty to protect my residents — especially when our most vulnerable are unjustly attacked. As a leader, it’s my duty to call out this administration’s anti-immigrant fearmongering for what it is: a racist lie," Schaaf wrote, also denying the "obstruction of justice" allegation.

"Mr. President, I am not obstructing justice. I am seeking it," she wrote, writing that the immigrants in her community "deserve justice too."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which planned to target around 1,000 people living illegally in the Bay Area city earlier this year, said Schaaf's warning tweet prevented the arrests of nearly 800.

"I wanted to make sure that people were prepared, not panicked, and that they understood their legal rights," she said. She said she did not share information that would put law enforcement at risk.

Trump's has targeted Schaaf for criticism multiple times since then, including as recently as this week when the president told Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a meeting that he should consider prosecuting the mayor.

In his March announcement of a lawsuit against California for its "sanctuary state" policies, Sessions also singled out Schaaf, asking why the mayor would "needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical open borders agenda.”

“It was not my intention to get caught up in a national debate, but I do believe that I am speaking for the residents of my city,” Schaaf responded at the time. “The agenda of this administration is petty political vindictiveness.”

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I hope they investigate like Trump asked, because the Mayor didn't do this for "justice", she didn't do this for the "unjustly attacked", she didn't do this for her "residents". She did this for the foreign drug cartels behind illegal immigration. Trump just needs to prove one of these filthy sanctuary city mayors is on the take with the cartels and he can bust this evil scourge against our country and citizens wide open.

Audit hers and Moonbeams bank accounts.

She did this out of spite and hope it bites her on her rear end.

Gang members, illegal aliens, foreign criminals are not our "most vulnerable" she is full of it up to her eyeballs!

Exactly.

So what is The Granny, er, I mean, Attorney General Sessions going to do about that mayor?

I'll make fun of all public figures because they are in the spotlight and not immune from comic relief. (The People vs Larry Flint)

"As mayor, it’s my duty to protect my residents — especially when our most vulnerable are unjustly attacked.

No! It's your duty to uphold the laws of this land and your state as you promised in the oath you took!

“It was not my intention to get caught up in a national debate

It is not the intent of most criminals to get caught!

Originally Posted by Boomslang

I'll make fun of all public figures because they are in the spotlight and not immune from comic relief. (The People vs Larry Flint)

So you are just a joke! You don't intend serious debate!

Trump Asks Sessions to Consider Prosecuting Oakland Mayor for ‘Obstruction of Justice

She needs to be charged with Obstruction!

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Trump Asks Sessions to Consider Prosecuting Oakland Mayor for ‘Obstruction of Justice

Consider? What is there to consider? Either grow a backbone or resign. Those should be his only two options.