The vicious White House sanctuary city revenge plan is too awful to gloss over | By Bill Carter for CNNOpinion
Bill Carter, a media analyst for CNN, covered the television industry for The New York Times for 25 years, and has written four books on TV, including"The Late Shift" and"The War for Late Night." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
The story broke in the Washington Post after 8 p.m. Thursday: The Trump administration, in its latest spasm of anti-immigrant animus, had twice in recent months considered a plan to transport detainees to sanctuary cities and essentially dump them there as a form of retaliation against Democratic political adversaries, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. By Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump confirmed that he was considering this revenge plan.
Bill CarterThe reaction across a broad swath of the most influential news outlets in America was something close to stupefaction.Jeffrey Toobin, chief legal analyst for CNN, appearing on Anderson Cooper's show"360," called the proposed policy"really grotesque" after describing the plan as akin to"using human beings to spread a form of pestilence around the country.
Castro: Trump admin. wants to use cruelty as a weapon 01:24And then, at least so far, pretty much everybody has gone back to covering the arrest of Julian Assange; the blowback against the attorney general enflaming conspiracy theories about spying on the Trump campaign; the fight over the President's taxes; and, inevitably, the latest polls on the Democratic presidential race.
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