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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf: Cities must keep pushing for immigrant rights Libby Schaaf FacebookTwitterEmail Demonstrators supporting immigrant rights gather in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood for a march toward downtown in May 2007.Darryl Bush / The Chronicle 2007 Three years ago Oakland sounded an alarm when we learned of a secret operation by President Donald Trump to attempt mass deportations of immigrants from our community. I knew the impending ICE raid on our city would have undoubtedly torn parents away from children, husbands away from wives. Instead of standing down, we chose to s...

I don't know this libby schaaf act is the right response. >> sandra: a big argument going out on social media platforms and doing her most and trying her hardest to warn all those illegal immigrants that the ice raid was coming would say that's somewhat senseless and here is what steve king from iowa said when he was introducing this. he said under my bill government officials who tip off illegal aliens but immigration enforcement efforts could face up to five years in prison. i want lawless sanctuary city politicians the hear this message clearly. if you obstruct ice, you are going to end up ...

Supervisor had a dire warning when she went on our sister network fox business saying this would flood her state with a wave of undocumented workers from other states and other parts of the world saying it will be a utopia for illegal immigrants. >> exactly. a magnet because it's all about incentives. if you give something away for nothing, you are going to attract more undocumented aliens to the state and you know what else is happening at the same time and happening for decades. you know who is leaving? law-abiding citizens, the middle class in california are fleeing. that's what's happening...

The bill was named after, that king is threatening to send to jail, oakland mayor libby schaaf. in her first interview since president trump started attacking her. thanks so much for your time. now you have this legislation named after you, threatening to put you in the cooler. what's your reaction? >> listen, i'm not going to let the bullies in washington, d.c. deter me from doing what i know is right for my community. in oakland, we're very clear about what our values are. we value our immigrant communities. we value diversity. and we will not let anyone intimidate us. we will not apologize ...

>> i believe that this president's language is racist. it is fear mongering and it is threeing to distract the american people from the job that elect the officials are supposed to do, and that's improve the lives of the people we represent, instead of casting blame and dispersion against a very vulnerable population. that's what we're doing here in oakland. oakland is a very proud, diverse, sanctuary city. our crime has gone down over the last few years. we are working on safety by lifting up our children, getting them college degrees. that's the work that politicians should be doing, not try...