We’re still hoping City Hall and the Trump administration can come to some compromise on the whole “sanctuary city” thing — but this past week didn’t provide much cause for optimism.
First, of course, came Mayor de Blasio’s reply to CNN’s Jake Tapper about adding to the list of 170 offenses that trigger city cooperation with the feds on illegal aliens. “Is grand larceny or drunk driving a very minor offense?” Tapper asked.
“Drunk driving that doesn’t lead to any other negative outcome, I could define as that,” de Blasio came back.
Oops: “There is nothing minor when drunk driving kills or injures 300,000 people every year,” said Richard Mallow, the state director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. “Drunk driving is always a major offense.”
Then, later in the week, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-Brooklyn) read the mayor a list of other possible additions: “Sexual misconduct, forcible touching, sexual abuse in the second or third degree, grand larceny, welfare fraud, identity theft.” De Blasio declined to promise anything.
They’re not even bending on drunk driving yet: City Hall would only tell WCBS’s Marcia Kramer that it will get “thoughtful attention and conversation.”
Beware, Mr. Mayor: You don’t want to make MADD any madder — or Team Trump.
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