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BREAKING VIDEO : Pro-Illegal and Anti-Illegal Forces CLASH in Miami Dade Over Sanctuary City Status

Pro-illegal forces showed up to protest and speak out against Miami-Dades decision to rescind its sanctuary city status.

Things got heated as pro-illegal forces shouted and screamed at city officials, and even threw objects.

However, city officials remained steadfast.

Miami-Dad will NOT be a sanctuary city.

Watch the video:

From Miami Herald

Miami-Dade formally abandoned its status Friday as a “sanctuary” for unauthorized immigrants, backing Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s recent decision to mollify President Donald Trump by detaining jailed inmates sought for deportation by the federal government.

County commissioners rejected hours of impassioned testimony from residents who implored the board to stand up to the mayor and the White House. More than 150 people spent the day at County Hall delivering an often eloquent defense of immigration and South Florida’s vaunted diversity; only a small number supported Gimenez’s action.

“Shame on you!” members of the crowd cried after the 9-3 vote, hurling bits of paper and white carnations at the dais and standing up to stomp out of the chambers. “May God have mercy on your soul,” one woman hollered.

“Miami-Dade is not — has never considered itself — a sanctuary community,” Gimenez said.

But the county effectively acted as a “sanctuary” jurisdiction before Gimenez issued his Jan. 26 directive, which agreed to hold inmates for Immigration and Customs Enforcement even if the feds don’t reimburse the county for its expense — reversing a policy commissioners unanimously set in 2013. The mayor acted after Trump’s Jan. 25 executive order banning “sanctuary” communities and promising to cut off federal funds to any cities and counties that defied him.

There is no legal definition of a “sanctuary,” and a slew of attorneys who addressed the commission Friday said Miami-Dade wouldn’t be affected by Trump’s order because the county has never stopped sharing information about inmates with the feds.

“You are in compliance with federal law,” County Attorney Abigail Price-Williams told the board.

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