Here’s a message to President Trump: Seattle is not afraid of immigrants and refugees. In fact, we have always welcomed people who have faced tremendous hardships around the world. Immigrants and refugees are part of Seattle’s heritage, and they will continue to make us the city of the future.
In doing so, he trotted out his favorite playbook: He is demonizing immigrants and refugees to incite fear and to distract the American public from his own failures. Despite his party having control of the whole federal government for two years, Trump has utterly failed to fix our immigration system, to provide real opportunity for middle America or to improve the lives of the Americans in the places that supported him.
In Seattle, we know that our immigrant and refugee communities make our city a stronger, more vibrant place. Our immigrant neighbors make up more than 18 percent of our population, and 21 percent of our population speaks a language other than English at home. They create businesses and jobs. They create art and culture. They help teach our kids, serve in law enforcement and the military, and lead our places of faith.
In Seattle, we have started to provide tuition-free college for our public high school graduates, regardless of a young person’s immigration status. We’re expanding internship and apprenticeship opportunities to connect all our young people with the jobs and opportunities of the future. We’re working to help tens of thousands of legal permanent residents become U.S. citizens as part of the New Citizen Campaign and our other citizenship programs.
PostOpinions Seattle is run by Antifa, perhaps the WP should get a statement from them instead of their puppet
PostOpinions We are Gonna Need a Bigger Tent....
PostOpinions Great! Take them from California
PostOpinions What a joke. Living in area, people will not ho to seattle slim city because it is full of homeless herion addicts. Businesses say they are not opening new stores in seattle because the city is dying. Druggys sleeping on piers. Defacting everywhere. So sick.
PostOpinions Nobody is scared of immigrants. It’s crazy how it’s been two years and people still don’t know what an illegal immigrant is.
PostOpinions Didn’t know he spoke for me
PostOpinions Nope not Seattle. That would be cruel 🥶🤣🤣🤣. So LA SF NYC it is. HeyWaPo, how did the Collusion, Smollett, Kavanaugh and Indian vs HS kids work out for you? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
PostOpinions That would be President Trump! Your only a mayor.
PostOpinions Yeah the homeless population already trashed it
PostOpinions Washington DC could also take a couple million migrants - they can camp out in the homes of every Democrat that is opposing immediately reforming our asylum laws to limit asylum to legal migrants who wait outside our country until they are actually determined to deserve asylum.
PostOpinions Good - can you please take a couple million from LA County right now - they will do wonders for your public education and health care, and there is nothing better than broadsided being driven by an illegal migrant without a license or insurance.
PostOpinions Its not a matter of if they are scary or not, idk how many times it has to be explained for you dumb sacks of shit to understand, but we dont like illegal immigrants
PostOpinions To be fair, it does take a certain level of high intellect to understand. Not surprised that Seattle doesn't hit that mark.
PostOpinions Seattle is a s... hole and is already dead. I live there!!!!!
PostOpinions Strong statement on immigration and sanctuarycities. NYCMayor LightfootForChi, please chime in. Latinx leadership NYC Chicago Seattle
PostOpinions Is The Donald using the 4th branch of government, the NRA, to supply weapons to the migrants they're sending to Seattle so they can defend themselves against the police? Then Trump can wall off Seattle to prevent the asylum seekers from entering the U.S.
PostOpinions Instead of a majority of evangelicals supporting trump, child separation and the border wall, why aren't evangelical churches welcoming these immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers? It will have to be liberal cities that will have to step in to be the welcoming arms of Christ.
PostOpinions So happy to hear that. They are on their way!
PostOpinions Finally! Maybe now they will have employees that need free legal assistance for whatever else Don does
PostOpinions Bs... shes definitely not speaking for seattleites. Pretty soon we're going to be paying to have human crap scraped off our streets like frisco !!
PostOpinions Neither is SanFran. The more hard working immigrants in SF the better! Immigrants from *Guatemala* were responsible for our home addition. Dudes busted their butts 1/2 cost others. Also, the construction business was owned by a (wait for it) -Chinese immigrant. ZoidPolitics
PostOpinions What about a trade? Seattle will take one immigrant for each Trump death cult moron that any city in the South will take from us? Sound fair?
PostOpinions Send them there, I'll drive a buss !
PostOpinions Good,, send them all there..
PostOpinions As a Seattle resident I completely support this position. But I cannot fathom how a family of immigrants could afford the cost of living here, even for a modest apartment. It’s gotten totally out of control, two income middle class families struggle.
PostOpinions Awesome! Give Seattle all the illegals! Problem solved
PostOpinions Good, Seattle will be ground zero for the invasion of the illegals.
PostOpinions The leftist libs are sent from the devil himself appearing as angels of light who claim high ideals and equality yet have lost their souls and identity and are biggest cause of the social, moral, and spiritual breakdown of our society
PostOpinions I have an idea how about letting the illegals in and expelling and deporting the sick twisted leftist libs like to the middle of the ocean because they are more of a threat to the social, moral and spiritual fabric of our society because they are a disease from within
PostOpinions An indication of the breakdown of the whole social and moral structure of our nation where they they would clamor for illegals coming in from who knows where and with what intentions but villify the president of their nation
PostOpinions Seattle is already dying. Might as well kill it quicker eh?
PostOpinions So... She’s good with this then? Problem solved. If I say “I like red meat!” And a vegan says, “Well how about I send you all of my red meat!?!!” And I say, “Fine! I like it!” Everything would actually work out really really well.
PostOpinions Seattle is turning into a homeless dump along with the rest of the west coast .
PostOpinions Good. Send them on up there.
PostOpinions Good dump them there let them flood your schools your hospitals your social safety programs let the citizens of Seattle flip.the bill
PostOpinions Good! Send all 100,000 there! 👍🏿👍🏿🤣🤣🤣🤣
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PostOpinions Seattle, or what used to be called 'The Emerald City' is now as bad a shit-hole as any third world . Did any body catch the KOMO Report?
PostOpinions Call his bluff .. say sure do it.
PostOpinions Those are states and cities that have prepared a safe place for illegal immigrants why would that not be a good place to send them? This would give libs an opportunity to demonstrate their Superior management of multitudes of poor, sick non-English speaking people.
PostOpinions This should be the response from all sanctuary cities.
PostOpinions Sweet that's good news. We'll send a bunch there.
PostOpinions Thank you Mayor.
PostOpinions Illigals immigrants
PostOpinions USA Trump is still accepting 1000,s of LEGAL immigrants every day! Anti American rote media & incompetent political office time servers cannot mislead American voters in this new world order anymore
PostOpinions They can live on the street and poop on he street like the rest of the homeless.
PostOpinions Well said, thank you for speaking out MayorJenny! 👏
PostOpinions With Seattle and Portland's homeless population it is going to make it difficult to take on more people. Good luck!
PostOpinions “Wait, are they HOMELESS immigrants by any chance? Here’s the thing” -Jenny Durkan
PostOpinions Fantastic!! Thanks for volunteering!
PostOpinions Haha just add them to the homeless tents cities no big deal smh CityofSeattle
PostOpinions Wrap your mind around what Seattle just said - “immigrants don’t scare Seattle”. Why would you imply there is something to be scared of?
PostOpinions Great! Send them all over there!
PostOpinions Go for it! Bring on the murder, disease, rapes, higher taxes! Go for it!
PostOpinions This is ur opportunity Seattle to receive -- (all) the illegal immigrants, including scores of MS-13 to litter ur streets & brutally kill ur kids. VOTE HIM OUT !! or its quite possible you may die. ☠️ He's not scared, because he's protected w/ guns.
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PostOpinions Ya, take the illegal ones and enjoy
PostOpinions Let's see how he feels about 6 months afterwards.
PostOpinions It doesn't scare the mayor as he lives in a big gated community where the only illegals allowed are the ones working the yard and washing the windows 😁
PostOpinions Then pay for them with your OWN money
PostOpinions Meanwhile, while not being scared of immigrants (fine), maybe someone should warn the immigrants about the natives and their massive addiction and crime problem which finally has many in the tolerant city saying “No Mas!” This is the Mayor changing the subject
PostOpinions MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL.... GOP VP Franklin_Graham Pulsa48 We the PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER RiseUpToguether
PostOpinions Excellent! Bus ‘em up
PostOpinions This will just attract MORE asylum seekers: Getting set-up in NY sound much better than sittin' around in El Paso for months. Useless orange turd.
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PostOpinions Downtown Seattle is a trainwreck of drugged out wannabes. Bring it on.
PostOpinions Well Said!
PostOpinions WTG Ms Durkan!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
PostOpinions A country of immigrants shouldn't really be scared by immigration.
PostOpinions We are one cattle car away from an ugly history
PostOpinions I hope it works out. I really do. I'm also still bullish on Venezuela. 😏
PostOpinions Or Santa Cruz, either. Our gain.
PostOpinions Why dont they send buses down there to pick them up
PostOpinions Welcome, welcome we will register you to vote in the 2020 election I'm sure you will know who to vote for
PostOpinions Yeah I’m sure there are plenty of tents, blue tarps and stolen bicycles to go around.
PostOpinions Oh they will
PostOpinions Alright then. Done deal.
PostOpinions Since Fuhrer TinyPaws von Shitbag never ventured outside his cushy 5th Ave neighborhood he has no idea NYC has millions of immigrants in the boroughs and we'd welcome those additional migrants. We'll take them all if we can kick ICE out of NYC. What say you NYCMayor?
PostOpinions SomePeopleDidSomething
PostOpinions Seattle is dying. As a washingtonian Democrats have turned it upside down.
PostOpinions They shouldn’t since homelessness doesn’t scrare them either
PostOpinions this is the correct response. you want to send normal, hardworking people to my community? ok.
PostOpinions Send them all to Seattle and raise just their taxes to pay for their livelihood!
PostOpinions Trump is scared
PostOpinions They should
PostOpinions Seattle it is
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