Misdirection is the art of calling people’s attention away from what you do not want them to see by pointing out something else.

Ventriloquists use it when they have to say a word or phrase that has a lot of letters that are hard to say without even slightly moving their lips. Magicians use it so the audience will look at some extraneous movement and not at an action the magician is doing to make the trick work.  Politicians do it when they are caught doing something questionable, but don’t want you to dwell on that.

Last week not only did Trump lose on his travel ban, but some of his lackeys are willing to testify about involvement with Russia, and his repeal and replace Obamacare pledge tanked.

The person who claimed he was the greatest deal maker of all time failed to make a deal, and the misdirection began.

First it was because the Democrats, who are not the majority party in the House, did not get it passed. Then it was Paul Ryan’s lack of leadership. Then we were told that Trump never said the ACA repeal would happen quickly in spite of all the times he said it would.

They needed a bad guy that people could be distracted with, someone Trump’s supporter would latch on to, and out came Sanctuary cities.

Trump began his campaign by laying the ground work listing stereotypes about immigrants, and then simply keeping to that and repeating his to get cheers and support.

He never listed any statistics to back up his claims, but that did not matter to his fans. He was telling them what they wanted to hear so they could believe it more.

But occasionally you have to spice things up, so the new move became to not just speak against the immigrants who are an imagined threat, but add those people who see beyond the stereotypes and generalizations and have looked at the facts. They are evil too.

And nothing says evil sympathizer more than those who support Sanctuary Cities.

This, of course, works because he does not explain what such cities actually are when he condemns them, but allows people to come up with their own definitions, no matter how incorrect, and then appeals to those self realized definitions as they will most likely be negative since they will conform to his rhetoric.

And so it was that after the failure of Repeal/Replace, when the first order of business would have been to explain what happened and what would happen next, the administration held a press conference, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Department of Justice would pull current and future grants from any jurisdiction that is violating federal immigration laws.

“I strongly urge our nation’s states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws, and to rethink these policies,”

Typically the statement is open and devoid of detail, and did not cite which laws he was referring to or what harm was being done.. Had he done that, it would have been clear that existing Sanctuary Cities aren’t breaking immigration law.
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What he wanted to do, and did, was to imply that Sanctuary Cities are themselves as unlawful as are all those imaginary bands of undocumented people roaming city streets throughout the country committing crimes for which they receive immunity.

Boston is one of the cities in Massachusetts that limits cooperation with federal deportation efforts. However, Nicole Caravella, a spokeswoman for Mayor Marty Walsh, pointed out,

“We do not have any policies that run contrary to federal immigration laws, and will wait for further clarification from the Department of Justice.”

Boston has the Trust Act which does not restrict police from communicating with federal immigration officials as Sessions claims, but Sessions seems unaware of that as he claimed that cities like Boston have laws that prohibit or restrict local officials from communicating or maintaining information related to an individual’s immigration status with federal authorities.

The act, except in cases in which there is a court-ordered warrant or they are suspected of a serious crime, does say that police cannot hold undocumented individuals in custody for the purposes of being deported.

Mayor Marty Walsh countered this statement of Sessions and its misleading lack of clarity by saying,

“The threat of cutting federal funding from cities across the country that aim to foster trusting relationships between their law enforcement and the immigrant community is irresponsible and destructive.”

Research holds that both documented and undocumented immigrants are more likely to report crime if they do not fear being questioned about their legal status when they do that.

Trump’s rhetoric dealing with Sanctuary cities makes an unsupported statement that

“These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our Republic.”

I might agree with him if  he were to present statistics that back that statement.

He needs to learn that just saying things does not make them so, and that there are people in this country who are informed, or at the very least will look things like this up.

Scare tactics may have worked in his multiple failed businesses, but they may not be as powerful as he thinks when it comes to governing the country because we have actual laws in place and educated people.