Trump sending '500 migrants a month' to Florida Democratic strongholds ByMATT DIXON

[applegrove]

Trump sending ‘500 migrants a month’ to Florida Democratic strongholds

By MATT DIXON at Politico

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2019/05/16/trump-sending-500-migrants-a-month-to-florida-democratic-strongholds-1020963

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TALLAHASSEE — President Donald Trump‘s plans to send potentially hundreds of undocumented immigrants each month to the Democratic strongholds of Broward and Palm Beach counties ignited a torrent of criticism from local Florida officials who called the move political.

“The blatant politics, sending them to the two most Democratic Counties in the state of Florida, is ridiculous,” said state Sen. Gary Farmer, a Democrat who represents portions of Broward County. “You can’t make this stuff up.”

Broward County officials described the plans Thursday in a press release, saying the Trump administration plans to release asylum seekers caught along the southern U.S. border into the county. A month earlier, Trump floated the idea of shipping undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. Neither Palm Beach nor Broward counties fit that description, but politically they're enemy territory for Trump and Republicans.

“That is so typically Trump,” Farmer said. “When the facts don’t fit the narrative, you slightly adjust the narrative.”

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[sheshe2]

1. Bet he is sending most of them to Mar a Fugg O....

To work as slaves.

[applegrove]

2. Nope. He is causing an immigration crisis on parts of Florida that vote Democratic.

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Totally political. To try and create an anti immigrant backlash there. Florida is an important electoral college state and ex felons can vote after 2016 so the GOP has probably been plotting to engineer something.