'Our cities are no longer safe': GOP mayors condemn Trump immigration enforcement

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Source: Politico

01/28/2026 07:46 PM EST


A number of Republican mayors are condemning the Trump administration’s hardline immigration enforcement tactics in Minnesota, as they call on the president to pull back from Minneapolis and worry their cities might be next.

“It’s roiling the country,” Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt told POLITICO. “We’re all sort of feeling the angst of our residents and the fear that our city will be next and that chaos is going to inevitably creep across the entire country.”

Fresno, California, Mayor Jerry Dyer said in an interview that “too much damage has been done” with the crackdown and “the trust in communities has been lost.” And Burnsville, Minnesota, Mayor Elizabeth Kautz, warned that the agency’s current tactics meant “our cities are no longer safe.”

The remarks from the trio of moderate-leaning GOP mayors who have broken with Trump in the past came at the annual gathering of the nonpartisan U.S. Conference of Mayors, held blocks from the White House. Holt chairs the conference.

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[electric_blue68]

1. "Growlll", said the lepards.

[Martin68]

2. It makes me sick. Trump ran on lies like "our cities are war zones," and then he actually created war zones in blue

state cities to force compliance with his lawless policies and beat Democrats into submission. He lies about crime, claiming that crime rates in urban areas are going up when they've been coming steadily down since the pandemic. And then he unleashes a horde of criminals to terrorize, kidnap, rob, and kill law-abiding citizens and nobody who looks like a person of color. It is the classic playbook of the fascist wannabe: falsely accuse your opponents of doing exactly what you are planning to do.

[bdamomma]

3. Shut it all

down there has to be a GENERAL STRIKE!!!!!!!! Green is the only color they understand!!!!!! Congress is weak, but we are not!!!

[Wonder Why]

4. Lo! The weasels speak! May they place their heads in plastic bags in shame for what they have done to their residents..

[Initech]

5. Any other president would have been thrown out on their ass by now.

But nope, once again, Trump gets a free pass to do the most evil shit possible. Enough is enough! He and his goon squad need to be fired and arrested *NOW*!

[turbinetree]

7. This...............

[turbinetree]

6. Did you vote for the POS..............what say you mayors...........I guess they missed the part when he said

that he was wronged on a podium on Jan. 6th and 5 people died, when he said that he could stand on 5th avenue and shoot some one and nobody would care, when he called a woman reporter "piggy..............the list goes on and on............you made this bed ..................

[creon]

8. Are they now?

lol.

Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.


All this was their idea.. They rode the wind of fear and xenophobiia. They now have the whirlwind of ICE and internment camps.

Live with it as best you can