Trump’s brazen attempts to withhold N.Y. counterterror funds

Trump’s internal security department 178 million dollars in programs to combat terrorism For New York, under the false appearance of the application of immigration is an affront to the truth and the NYPD.

Now, Donald Trump and secretary Kristi Noem finance the police.

So much for any federal partnership with local and local police to ensure the safety of communities. And this momentum is not part of the government’s closure or a kind of practical reorientation, but only because Trump is upset that his original state did not accompany his anti-immigrant and anti-dei agendas, wrongly affirming that we are held from the federal line.

New York is the n ° 1 terrorist target of the bad guys. There is a place in the city center called Ground Zero if Donald and Kristi need a reminder. It was the attack on September 11 that stimulated the creation of the department of Noem. But that does not matter when political remuneration is underway.

If the terrorist threat to New York had disappeared, funding could decrease, but the administration is not interested in having conversations on the effectiveness of the police. And for the rule of law linked to immigration, he embarked on an unprecedented national effort for agents to be the profile and pursue people in a way that seems to clearly violate the fourth amendment, because they now seek to extend these tactics.

It is also particularly ironic for a president who made such hay of the idea that the streets of the city and the metro are so dangerous. So, is it logical to reduce the financing of critical functions of the application of laws? It is even more exasperating that it does it at least in part to try to force New York to participate in its repression of immigration, an effort that local police are suitable is harmful to public security by generating a police skepticism and discouraging people who report or act as witness to potential criminal activity.

For all Trump’s lies on crime rates in cities, including New York, we have historically low and down the rates of violent crimes, at least in part because our strategy, including our sanctuary provisions, worked. Thus, in essence, Trump is engaged in an effort to make New York less safe as a punishment and cake for the state refusing to make New York even less safe.

To state the evidence, the president does not really have the power to simply redirect the appropriate federal funds as he wishes. Throughout his mandate, Trump treated the federal government – whether they are federal agents and prosecutors, independent regulatory organizations or the federal budget itself – like his own personal domain, or as if he were the CEO of the United States as opposed to a representative of the public with strong constraints and an absolute mandate to maintain the Constitution. This is why at least one federal judge has already frozen efforts to finance.

If all of this seems familiar, it is because Trump tried to do exactly the same during his first mandate and was also slapped by the courts, but apparently did not learn his lesson. Once again, the maintenance of the law is only possible if those responsible are faced with consequences to break it.