But releasing undocumented immigrants into sanctuary cities isn’t any more
morally odious than sabotaging America’s health-care system, subjecting hundreds of thousands of American-raised immigrants to the threat of deportation, or shuttering the federal government for weeks on end in a fit of pique. In fact, Trump’s new gambit is much
less objectionable from a moral standpoint. After all, if one rejects his racist (and
empirically baseless) presumptions about the effect that undocumented immigrants have on urban life, then he is essentially threatening to provide asylum-seekers with free transportation to cities that are
currently in need of more labor, and which have proved to be especially accommodating to America’s newcomers.
As far as this president’s hostage-taking threats go, that’s a rather benign proposition.
Trump’s Sanctuary-Cities Threat Is His Latest Bid to Govern by Sabotage