President Donald Trump on Thursday took aim at Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf for her role in alerting illegal immigrants of a recent ICE raid, calling her actions a "disgrace."
“What the mayor of Oakland did the other day was a disgrace,” Trump told reporters prior to a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
"They had close to 1,000 people ready to be gotten, ready to be taken off the streets … they say 85 percent of them are criminals and had criminal records. And the mayor of Oakland went out and warned them, scattered, so instead of taking in a thousand they took in a fraction of that."
Trump echoed the sentiments of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who said that the sanctuary actions of California are "radical."
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state over its sanctuary laws.
"They were all set, this was long in the planning and she said get out of here and she’s telling that to criminals,” Trump said. “And it’s certainly something we are looking at with respect to her individually.
"What (Schaaf) did is incredible and very dangerous from the standpoint of ICE and border patrol. Very dangerous. She really made law enforcement much more dangerous than it had to be. So we are looking at that situation very carefully.”
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