Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Trump and Sanctuary Cities

Episode Date: November 8, 2024

Bill talks about migrants, sanctuary cities, and what Donald Trump could do.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a lot of behind the scenes stuff going on in New York State because of the Trump went. And it is my job, of course, to bring you the reality of the situation because very few people know it. I do know it. Excuse me. So you may have seen Attorney General Titia James putting out a statement. She read the statement that she's not going to be intimidated by Donald Trump's presidency. Okay.

Okay. All right. I don't know what Trump has in store for Letitia James. I know there's a blood feud. There's no doubt about it. Blood feud. If Ms. James has done anything wrong to violate any law, I expect scrutiny. But if she has not, then I think you leave her alone if you're Donald Trump. political stuff. They call it law fair. The Republicans don't want to do that. Well, let the Democrats own that corrupt thing. But if I were a President Trump, I'd certainly take a look at all of the people involved with this law fair. I take a look at them, but I wouldn't trump up anything, pardon a pun. All right, I think that's fair. In New York City, Mayor Adam is really in a tight spot. So we are overrun with undocumented people here in the city. It's costing us hundreds of millions of dollars and the city doesn't have it. So Adam is a big sanctuary city guy and remains kind of defiant. Roll the tape. To those immigrants who are living here pursuing the American dream, as so many generations did before you, New York City stands with you.

Our city will also continue to offer care, resources, and legal help to those who need it. Well, you better watch your stuff, Mr. Mayor, because if you do the sanctuary city stuff, which is primarily refusing to alert Homeland Security ICE when you have arrested an undocumented person. If you refuse to do that, then the Trump administration has, is going to cut off all money, all federal block grants to New York City. So Adams can't stand up to that. He'll fold.

Because that's what Trump promised. He promised to end the sanctuary cities and counties by saying you either cooperate with Homeland Security ICE, and you report the arrests of undocumented people. So if ICE wants to detain and pick them up, it can't. Now we know across a country there are literally thousands of jurisdictions who refuse to do that. The largest is New York City. If Trump is true to his word and he almost has to be, this is ground zero. So the new attorney general, whoever that will be, is going to have to

come into New York City, look Mayor Adams in the eye and say, you have a week. to begin cooperating with federal authorities on the undocumented criminals or you're cut off. And that would mean hundreds of millions of dollars denied to New York City and many parts of the state. You know how catastrophic that'll be? So there's Adams out there yesterday saying, oh, no, we're going to pursue the American dream. I want everybody here legally to pursue the dream and have equal opportunity. You're not here legally? I'm sorry, Eric Adams.

You're going to have to obey federal law. I would be shocked if Trump backs away from this. He didn't do it his first term. He did not do it. He could have broken the Sanctuary City movement back then, and he didn't. And I talked to him about it one time, and he just said, well, I didn't have enough time. and Congress would have done this and that. Now you've got Congress.

So now's the time to break that movement, and it should be broken. You can have people in elected positions saying are not going to obey the law. And remember, federal law overrides state and local law. So I'm watching this story big time. And I'm going to give Trump, you know, you've got to give them a little time.

But I say by June, if you don't have the sanctuary, he's under control and is going to be a big controversy about it. So who are the biggest losers in the election this week besides Kamala Harris? I got the list and you are going to be surprised by some of the people on it.