Trump Issues Challenge to Sanctuary Cities
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump has issued a challenge to all sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. In a public statement, he laid out the case that illegal aliens and criminals have been given priority over American citizens, and that the responsibility for the related crime and chaos is in the hands of elected officials who facilitated and then protected it. In light of this, Trump issued a challenge for elected officials to hand over criminal aliens in prisons and jails, to allow police to cooperate with federal authorities, and to end sanctuary cities across the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | President Donald Trump has issued a challenge to all sanctuary cities and sanctuary states telling officials hand over criminal aliens and prisons and jails and broadly bring an end to sanctuary cities across the country. |
| 0:14.0 | And with that being said, Trump is also now saying the findings of billions of dollars in fraud being allegedly committed mainly by members of the |
| 0:22.9 | Somali community could actually be hugely underestimated and that the real amount stolen so far |
| 0:30.1 | could be far beyond what is currently known. I'll be going into these topics and a lot more today. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:47.8 | President Donald Trump has issued a challenge to all sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, |
| 0:53.6 | telling them effectively the local officials, |
| 0:56.5 | hand over your criminal aliens and prisons and jails, broadly end the sanctuary city policies |
| 1:02.0 | all across the United States. And with that being said also, Trump is now also saying |
| 1:07.2 | the findings of billions of dollars in fraud being allegedly committed mainly by members of the Somali community could actually be underestimated. |
| 1:16.6 | He's saying it could be significantly higher. |
| 1:18.6 | And the real amount stolen so far could be far beyond anything currently known. |
| 1:24.6 | I'll be going into these topics and a lot more today. Make sure to hit the |
| 1:28.7 | like button, leave a comment. Let's get started. All right, first of all, President Donald Trump |
| 1:33.6 | issued a challenge to all sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, and in a public statement, |
| 1:38.7 | he laid out the whole case saying that illegal aliens and criminals have been given priority over American citizens. |
| 1:47.4 | And he says the responsibility for the related crime and chaos in the hands of elected officials, |
| 1:53.1 | it's on them effectively. He's saying they facilitated it and then they protected the crime |
| 1:59.2 | they created. |
| 2:03.8 | Now, in light of this Trump issued a challenge to elected officials, |
| 2:06.9 | hand over criminal aliens in prisons and jails, |
| 2:10.6 | allow police to cooperate with federal authorities and to bring an end to sanctuary cities across the entire country. |
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