Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is ready to challenge Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting Dreamers and sanctuary cities.
Seattle is planning to fire off "a series of Freedom of Information requests" to multiple federal agencies, Murray said in his State of the City address. The city will give the White House and Department of Homeland Security the deadline of 20 business days to respond. [...]
"The city must be able to provide accurate information to immigrants and refugees and their families living in Seattle," Murray will say. "We will seek to determine the administration's definition of 'sanctuary cities' and the enforcement actions the federal government may take against us.
"We will also seek detailed information about the administration's changes to travel policy as well as changes to immigration status, including the DACA program."
Detailed information may be hard to come by, considering the dishonesty and incompetence coming out of Trump and everyone around him. But if Murray doesn’t get answers, or isn’t satisfied with what he hears, “We believe the rule of law is on our side, and we will take legal action if the federal government does not answer our requests in a timely manner.”