Cory Booker says Trump "would make us less safe" with the idea of ​​sanctuary cities

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Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, of New Jersey, accused President Trump of trying to incite anger and divide Americans with his threat to free undocumented immigrants from the border in sanctuary cities. Margaret Brennan, moderator of CBS News' "Face the Nation", asked Booker if the president's threat was empty – perhaps he was creating friction in order to revive a congress that did not acted in matters of immigration.

"You talk about" frictions "- I say that he's trying to pit Americans against each other and make us less safe," Booker told Brennan in an interview following his rally for the Saturday's presidential campaign in his home town of Newark, a shrine town.

The "sanctuary cities" provide a safe haven for undocumented immigrants who might otherwise be expelled by the federal immigration authorities. The president complained on Friday of the increasing number of migrants crossing the border, which he called "illegals," and said: "We will take them to sanctuary cities and let this region get its way. To charge it, be it a state or something else that could be. "

He added, "California keeps saying," Oh, we want more people. "And they want more people in their sanctuary cities, so we'll give them more, we can give them a lot, we can give them an unlimited supply, and let's see if they're so happy."

When asked if he was taking the president's threat seriously, Booker replied, "I take this, it injects fear into our country."

Booker also expressed doubts about the president's motives. "If he was trying to solve a problem, he would not do things to divide this country against himself," he said. "Beware of people who try to tell you to be afraid in the most powerful country in the world, instead of showing our strength and courage by bringing people together to find common-sense solutions to solve this. problem."