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Mayors Boycott Trump Meeting After DOJ Threatens Sanctuary Cities

Governing: After the Trump administration threatened to subpoena 23 states, cities and counties over their immigration policies, several mayors -- including at least one Republican -- backed out of a planned infrastructure meeting with the president on Wednesday.

“Unfortunately, the Trump administration’s decision today to threaten our mayors and demonize immigrants yet again -- and use cities as a political prop in the process -- has made a meeting at the White House untenable for some of us," said New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM).

He continued: "The U.S. Conference of Mayors is proud to be a bipartisan organization. But an attack on mayors who lead welcoming cities is an attack on everyone in the conference."

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